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The meaning of proofs :mathematics as storytelling
Translation of: Matematica come narrazione : raccontare la matematica."This book introduces readers to the narrative structure of mathematical proofs and why mathematicians communicate that way, drawing examples from classic literature and employing metaphors and imagery"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262371030
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- 1 online resource.
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Advances in minimum description length :theory and applications
A source book for state-of-the-art MDL, including an extensive tutorial and recent theoretical advances and practical applications in fields ranging from bioinformatics to psychology.The process of inductive inference--to infer general laws and principles from particular instances--is the basis of statistical modeling, pattern recognition, and machine learning. The Minimum Descriptive Length (M…
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- 9780262274463
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- 1 online resource (x, 444 pages) :illustrations.
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Democratic constitutional design and public policy: analysis and evidence
Papers originally presented at a conference sponsored by the Center for Business and Policy Studies.Leading scholars in rational choice analysis present the public choice, new institutionalist, and new political economy perspectives on the political and economic effects of constitutional design and review the accumulating empirical evidence.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262270731
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- 1 online resource (384 pages)
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Anti-individualism and knowledge
"A Bradford book."Contemporary philosophy of mind is dominated by anti-individualism, which holds that a subject's thoughts are determined not only by what is inside her head but also by aspects of her environment. Despite its dominance, anti-individualism is subject to a daunting array of epistemological objections: that it is incompatible with the privileged access each subject has to her tho…
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- 9780262269346
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 339 pages).
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Bayesian brain :probabilistic approaches to neural coding
Experimental and theoretical neuroscientists use Bayesian approaches to analyse the brain mechanisms of perception decision-making, and motor control.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262294188
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 326 pages) :illustrations.
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Critical Resistance: From Poststructuralism to Post-Critique
This book serves as both an introduction to the concept of resistance in poststructuralist thought and an original contribution to the continuing philosophical discussion of this topic. How can a body of thought that mistrusts universal principles explain the possibility of critical resistance? Without appeals to abstract norms, how can emancipatory resistance be distinguished from domination? …
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- 9780262275798
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- 1 online resource (viii, 274 pages)
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Discovering complexity: Decomposition and localization as strategies in scien…
"In Discovering Complexity, William Bechtel and Robert Richardson examine two heuristics that guided the development of mechanistic models in the life sciences: decomposition and localization. Drawing on historical cases from disciplines including cell biology, cognitive neuroscience, and genetics, they identify a number of 'choice points' that life scientists confront in developing mechanistic…
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- 9780262289177
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- 1 online resource (liv, 286 pages) :illustrations
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Knowledge and skepticism, Volume 5
There are two main questions in epistemology: What is knowledge? And: Do we have any of it? The first question asks after the nature of a concept; the second involves grappling with the skeptic, who believes that no one knows anything. This collection of original essays addresses the themes of knowledge and skepticism, offering both contemporary epistemological analysis and historical perspecti…
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- 9780262265782
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- 1 online resource (viii, 367 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color).
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The dependencies of objects
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- 9780262285094
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- 1 online resource (xii, 197 pages) :illustrations.
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Mindvaults : sociocultural grounds for pretending and imagining
An argument that the uniquely human capacities of pretending and imagining develop in response to sociocultural and sociopolitical pressures in childhood.The human mind has the capacity to vault over the realm of current perception, motivation, emotion, and action, to leap--consciously and deliberately--to past or future, possible or impossible, abstract or concrete scenarios and situations. In…
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- 9780262314336
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- 1 online resource (xxi, 236 pages)
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