Semantic similarity

satisfaction by providing their consumers with products that allow for retrieval of their favorite memories through digital memory, rather than declarative memory processes. Two separate processes – semantic and episodic memory– make up our declarative memory and allow us to recall information. Through our semantic memory, we are able to refer to general facts, ideas, and concepts that we have obtained over…

a term that, at the moment, is used strictly when referring to animals, mainly humans. Computing within computers is considered to only contain the principle of syntax as opposed to thinking which contains both syntax and semantics. I believe, along with Searle, that semantics is necessary in order to be said to have a mind and therefore be said to be thinking. Searle’s Chinese Room argument articulates this…

differences and similarities between Chinese and Japanese in colour word "green (青)" according to authoritative dictionaries; (2) factors lead to the differences. Additionally, the colour word “green” in this essay refers to “Qing” in Chinese and “Ao/ Sei (あお/ せい)” in Japanese, both of which share the same Chinese character/ kanji “青”. Differences and similarities Chinese and Japanese colour word "green", one of typical representatives of language fuzziness, have some similarities and a…

How does the poet make his thoughts and feelings about the athletes so memorable for you? The poet in his poem “Dignified” manages to convey his thoughts and feelings about the athletes in a memorable way through his use of alliteration, semantic field, and enumeration. First of all, the persona uses alliteration in order to contrast the athletes and ordinary people, “While we snore towards our heart attacks”. This demonstrates the lack of determination of common people that differs from the…

If Romeo were not a Montague, he would still be himself: his name is not a physical part of him like his hand or foot. A rose would smell the same if we used a different term for it ‐ and Romeo would still be as perfect if he had a different name. The alternative to this arbitrary view of meaning was associated with Plato, and its crucial difference was in the rejection of the notion of randomness in language. The Platonic view posited a deep, divine or occult, connection between the form of…

marks on paper or a set of pixels on a monitor screen. The representation theory of mind suggests that there are relations between intentional mental states and mental representations, and explains the intentionality of the former in terms of the semantic properties of the latter. (Pitt, 2012) Moreover, the mental processes like thinking, imagining and reasoning are sequences of intentional mental states which is understood by the representational theory of mind. To deduce a proposition q from…

Verbal rules seem to have a slightly less strict following than nonverbals. When breaking the phonological rule and semantic rule, I was corrected or met with confusion, but I also received responses of humor. My family was at first amused by my breaking of the phonological rules, but became annoyed. Beca’s responses were a variation of amused and confused when I broke the semantic rule. Contrastingly, within communication contexts where I experimented with breaking nonverbal rules, I was met…

Nicole Lewis B00660746 BSc (Hons) Language and Linguistics Introduction The rationale behind this particular research project is due to an interest within pragmatics. Pragmatics is a growing area within the linguistic field and although many areas are explored widely for example; scalar implicatures it is interesting that other areas such as distributive inferences are not studied within the same amount of detail, despite both having very similar properties. Due to this fact,…

concepts stated earlier, semantic context, medical thinking, and biological constants. Semantic context and vocabulary are not exact, because modern medical terms don’t perfectly correlate with ancient medical terms, and even though some biological constants may stay the same from 2000 years ago, some bacteria and viruses have mutated. Plus, reading historical documents is not exactly a precise practice. There can be arguments over what the medical thinking was or the semantic context.…

Jill Bolte Taylor’s bestseller, My Stroke of Insight, is a polished literary work that can be easily read by a large audience. You don’t need to have the knowledge of a brain scientist to follow along; in fact, the second and third chapter has a summarized introduction to simple science of our bodies and our brain including hemispheric asymmetries. Readers are able to flow through Taylor’s exploration of new sensations from heavy reliance on her right hemisphere. This amalgamation of all little…