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1 inner sense

1) Психология: ощущение времени, способность ума осознавать свою деятельность

2) Реклама: внутреннее ощущение, внутренний голос

Универсальный англо-русский словарь > inner sense
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English-Hebrew dictionary > inner sense
3 inner sense

innerlijk gevoel

English-Dutch dictionary > inner sense
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способность ума осознавать свою деятельность; ощущение времени

Англо-русский словарь по психоаналитике > inner sense
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1. n внутренняя часть

inner flat keel — внутренний лист горизонтального киля

inner base circle — внутренняя делительная окружность

inner sense — внутренний голос; внутреннее ощущение

inner vertical keel — внутренний вертикальный киль

inner photoemissive effect — внутренний фотоэффект

2. a внутренний

inner door — внутренняя дверь

the inner circles — правящие круги

inner bark — флоэма

inner diameter — диаметр в свету, внутренний диаметр

inner tube — камера шины

inner face — внутренняя сторона; оборотная сторона

inner quantum number — внутреннее квантовое число

inner curb — внутренняя бровка беговой дорожки

bearing inner race — внутреннее кольцо подшипника

inner valve spring — внутренняя пружина клапана

3. a духовный, интеллектуальный; интимный; тайный, сокровенный

inner thoughts — сокровенные мысли

to have inner resources to fall back on — опираться на свои собственные духовные силы

Синонимический ряд:

gut (adj.) central; fundamental; gut; inherent; inmost; inside; interior; internal; intestine; intimate; inward; personal; private; privy; secret; visceral; viscerous

Антонимический ряд:

outward; superficial

English-Russian base dictionary > inner
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1. [sens] n
1. 1) чувство

the five senses - пять чувств

sense of hearing [of sight, of smell, of taste, of touch] - слух [зрение, обоняние, вкус, осязание]

sixth sense - шестое чувство, интуиция

inner sense - внутренний голос; внутреннее ощущение

sense organs - органы чувств

dogs have an acute sense of smell - у собак острое обоняние /хорошее чутьё, нюх/

2) ощущение, восприятие

a sense of pain - ощущение боли

a sense of time - чувство времени

a sense of locality - чувство пространства

a high sense of duty - высокое чувство долга

aesthetic sense - эстетический вкус /-ое чутьё/

a sense of colour - понимание колорита, умение подбирать цвета

a keen sense of humour - тонкое чувство юмора

a high sense of one's importance - большое самомнение

to do smth. out of /from/ a sense of duty - делать что-л. из чувства долга

to have no sense of proportion - быть лишённым чувства меры

to lack all sense of beauty [of justice, of gratitude] - не иметь чувства прекрасного [справедливости, благодарности]

he has no stage sense - он совершенно не чувствует /не понимает законов/ сцены

2. 1) pl сознание, рассудок

in one's right senses - в здравом уме

are you in your right senses? - ты что - рехнулся?

to be out of one's senses - разг. свихнуться, спятить, быть не в своём уме

to recover /to regain/ one's senses - прийти в себя /в сознание/

to lose one's senses - сойти с ума

to take leave of one's senses - разг. сойти с ума, рехнуться

to be frightened out of one's senses - перепугаться до полусмерти /до обморока/; одуреть от страха

no man in his senses would have done so - так поступить мог только сумасшедший /лишённый здравого смысла/

2) разум

sense comes with age - разум приходит с годами

he has no sense - он не отличается благоразумием

to bring smb. to his senses - образумить кого-л.

to come to one's senses - образумиться, прийти в себя

to act against all sense - действовать /поступать/ неразумно

3) здравый смысл (тж. common sense)

a man of sense - разумный /здравомыслящий/ человек

to show good sense - проявить здравый смысл

to appeal to smb.'s good /common/ sense - взывать к чьему-л. здравому смыслу

to talk sense - говорить разумно /дельно/

there is no sense in doing this - нет смысла /не стоит/ делать это

to have too much sense to do smth., to have more sense than to do smth. - быть достаточно умным, чтобы сделать что-л. /не сделать чего-л./

to make use of one's senses - разг. шевелить мозгами, думать

use a little sense! - разг. шевели мозгами!, подумай!

he had the good sense to make a wise choice - у него хватило ума /здравого смысла/ сделать правильный выбор

3. 1) значение, важность (чего-л.)

to make sense - иметь смысл, быть нужным

this decision makes sense - это решение имеет смысл

it doesn't make sense, it makes no sense at all - это лишено всякого смысла; это вздор /чушь/

his attitude doesn't make sense - его отношение трудно понять

I cannot make out the sense of... - не могу понять смысла (чего-л.)

2) значение

strict [literal] sense - точное [буквальное] значение

archaic sense - устаревшее значение

in the narrow [enlarged] sense of the word - в узком [в широком] значении этого слова

in the best sense of the term - в лучшем смысле этого слова

in a (certain) sense - в некотором смысле, до некоторой степени

in no sense - ни в каком смысле; ни в каком отношении

in no sense a genius - отнюдь не гений

in every sense - во всех отношениях

the marriage was in every sense happy - брак был во всех отношениях счастливым

in more senses than one - ≅ и притом во многих значениях этого слова; и притом во многих отношениях

the word has acquired an disparaging sense - это слово приобрело неодобрительный оттенок

4. общее настроение, дух

to take the sense of the meeting - определить настроение /мнение/ собрания (путём голосования, опроса); поставить вопрос на голосование

the sense of the conference was manifest - отношение конференции (к этому вопросу) было очевидным

5. спец. направление

sense of rotation [of current] - направление вращения [тока]

sense finder - определитель направления

♢ deprivation of senses = sensory deprivation
2. [sens] v
1. чувствовать, осознавать

to sense danger - чуять опасность

he sensed our hostility - он почувствовал наше враждебное отношение

I had sensed as much - я так и думал, я это предвидел

2. понимать, отдавать себе отчёт

she fully sensed the danger of her position - она целиком отдавала себе отчёт в опасности своего положения

НБАРС > sense
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1. n чувство

the five senses — пять чувств

sense of hearing — слух

sixth sense — шестое чувство, интуиция

inner sense — внутренний голос; внутреннее ощущение

a saving sense of humour — спасительное чувство юмора

mechanical sense organ — орган механического чувства

chemical sense organ — орган химического чувства

a sense of fullness — чувство сытости, насыщение

sense of coordination — чувство координации

2. n ощущение, восприятие

a sense of pain — ощущение боли

a sense of time — чувство времени

a sense of locality — чувство пространства

a high sense of duty — высокое чувство долга

aesthetic sense — эстетический вкус

a sense of colour — понимание колорита, умение подбирать цвета

a keen sense of humour — тонкое чувство юмора

to have no sense of proportion — быть лишённым чувства меры

gustatory sense — вкусовое ощущение

sense of sight — зрительное ощущение

sense of touch — контактное восприятие

sense perception — чувствительное восприятие

3. n сознание, рассудок

are you in your right senses? — ты что — рехнулся?

sense of high responsibility to peoples — сознание высокой ответственности перед народами

4. n разум

sense comes with age — разум приходит с годами

5. n здравый смысл

a man of sense — разумный человек

to show good sense — проявить здравый смысл

to talk sense — говорить разумно

there is no sense in doing this — нет смысла делать это

in the best sense of the term — в лучшем смысле этого слова

to the detriment of common sense — в ущерб здравому смыслу

in the bad sense of the word — в плохом смысле этого слова

to obey common sense — руководствоваться здравым смыслом

in the proper sense of the word — в прямом смысле слова

6. n значение, важность

to make sense — иметь смысл, быть нужным

archaic sense — устаревшее значение

7. n общее настроение, дух

to take the sense of the meeting — определить настроение собрания ; поставить вопрос на голосование

8. n спец. направление

sense of rotation — направление вращения

rotating sense — направление вращения

sense of rotation — направление вращения

variation in the sense — изменение направления

sense indicator — индикатор направления на радиостанцию

sense aerial — антенна для определения истинного направления

9. v чувствовать, осознавать

to sense danger — чуять опасность

sense danger — чувствовать опасность

to know by the sixth sense — интуитивно чувствовать

10. v понимать, отдавать себе отчёт

she fully sensed the danger of her position — она целиком отдавала себе отчёт в опасности своего положения

Синонимический ряд:

1. common sense (noun) common sense; good sense; gumption; horse sense; judgement; judgment; wisdom

2. feeling (noun) estimation; faculty; feeling; function; idea; impression; notion; opinion; sensation; sensibility; sensitivity; sentiment; thought

3. meaning (noun) acceptation; connotation; denotation; import; intendment; intent; meaning; message; purport; significance; significancy; signification; sum and substance; value

4. mind (noun) lucidity; mind; saneness; sanity; senses; soundness

5. reason (noun) brain; brainpower; brains; cleverness; intellect; intelligence; knowledge; logic; mentality; mother wit; rationale; rationality; reason; reasoning; wit

6. substance (noun) amount; body; burden; core; crux; gist; kernel; matter; meat; nub; nubbin; pith; short; strength; substance; sum total; thrust; upshot

7. understanding (noun) awareness; discernment; discretion; insight; perception; realization; reasonableness; recognition; understanding

8. feel (verb) believe; consider; credit; deem; feel; hold; intuit; think

9. recognise (verb) apperceive; appreciate; detect; discern; perceive; recognise; recognize

English-Russian base dictionary > sense
8 sense

1. n

1) чуття

the five senses — п'ять органів чуттів; п'ятеро чуттів

sense of hearing (of sight, of smell, of taste, of touch) — слух (зір, нюх, смак, дотик)

sixth sense — шосте чуття, інтуїція

inner sense — внутрішнє чуття; внутрішній голос

2) почуття, відчуття

a sense of pain — відчуття болю

a keen sense of humour — тонке почуття гумору

3) pl свідомість; розум

4) здоровий глузд

a man of sense — розсудлива людина

to talk sense — говорити розумно

5) сенс, значення, смисл

strict sense — точне значення

literal sense — дослівне значення

figurative sense — переносне значення

it doesn't make sense — у цьому немає смислу; це нісенітниця

6) загальний настрій, дух

to take the sense of the meeting — визначити настрій зборів (голосуванням)

7) напрям

sense finder — визначник напряму

sense organs — органи чуттів

to lose one's senses — збожеволіти

to recover (to regain) one's senses — опритомніти

to frighten smb. out of his senses — дуже перелякати когось

2. v

1) відчувати, почувати

2) усвідомлювати; розуміти

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I [sens] n
1) почуття; відчуття

sixth sense — інтуїція; відчуття, сприйняття

2) pl свідомість, розум

to lose one's senses — збожеволіти; розум

to come to one's senses — опам'ятатися, отямитися; здоровий ґлузд ( common sense)

3) значення, важливість ( чого-небудь); значення

in a (certain) sense — певною мірою

4) загальний настрій, дух

5) cпeц. напрямок

sense of current — напрямок струму
II [sens] v
1) відчувати, усвідомлювати

2) розуміти, усвідомлювати

English-Ukrainian dictionary > sense
9 inner *** in·ner adj

['ɪnə(r)]
(place) interno (-a), interiore, (thoughts, emotions) intimo (-a), profondo (-a)

an inner office — un ufficio interno

her inner sense of security — il suo profondo senso di sicurezza

English-Italian dictionary > inner *** in·ner adj
10 sense

sens
1. сущ.
1) а) чувство, ощущение;
восприятие to dull the senses ≈ притуплять чувства to have keen/quick senses ≈ остро чувствовать, ощущать to sharpen the senses ≈ обострять чувства intuitive sense ≈ интуитивное чувство a sense of humour ≈ чувство юмора a sense of failure ≈ сознание неудачи five senses sixth sense sense of proportion Syn: feeling б) общее настроение;
атмосфера, дух Syn: aura, mood, spirit
2) мн. разум, сознание have you taken leave (или are you out) of your senses? ≈ с ума вы сошли? to lose one's senses ≈ потерять сознание;
брякнуться в обморок to frighten/scare smb. out of his senses ≈ напугать кого-л. до потери сознания
3) здравый смысл, склад ума (тж. common sense, good sense, horse sense) ;
ум to display, show sense ≈ проявлять здравый смысл a grain of sense ≈ крупица здравого смысла They don't have the sense to admit defeat. ≈ У них не хватает здравого смысла, чтобы признать поражение. to bring smb. to her/his senses ≈ доводить что-л. до чьего-л. ума to take leave of one's senses talk sense ≈говорить дельно, разумно He is talking sense. ≈ Он дело говорит. Syn: wisdom
4) смысл;
значение (слова) ;
резон, обоснованность( каких-л. действий и т. п.) to make no sense ≈ иметь смысл figurative sense narrow sense strict sense in a sense in all senses in no sense
2. гл.
1) ощущать, чувствовать Syn: feel, become aware
2) понимать чувство - the five *s пять чувств - * of hearing слух - sixth * шестое чувство, интуиция - inner * внутренний голос;
внутреннее ощущение - * organs органы чувств - dogs have an acute * of smell у собак острое обоняние /хорошее чутье, нюх/ ощущение, восприятие - a * of pain ощущение боли - a * of time чувство времени - a * of locality чувство пространства - a high * of duty высокое чувство долга - aesthetic * эстетический вкус /-ое чутье/ - a * of colour понимание колорита, умение подбирать цвета - a keen * of humour тонкое чувство юмора - a high * of one's importance большое самомнение - to do smth. out of /from/ a * of duty делать что-л. из чувства долга - to have no * of proportion быть лишенным чувства меры - to lack all * of beauty не иметь чувства прекрасного - he has no stage * он совершенно не чувствует /не понимает законов/ сцены сознание, рассудок - in one's right *s в здравом уме - are you in your right *s? ты что - рехнулся? - to be out of one's *s (разговорное) свихнуться, спятить, быть не в своем уме - to recover /to regain/ one's *s прийти в себя /в сознание/ - to lose one's *s сойти с ума - to take leave of one's *s (разговорное) сойти с ума, рехнуться - to be frightened out of one's *s перепугаться до полусмерти /до обморока/;
одуреть от страха - no man in his *s would have done so так поступить мог только сумасшедший /лишенный здравого смысла/ разум - * comes with age разум приходит с годами - he has no * он не отличается благоразумием - to bring smb. to his *s образумить кого-л. - to come to one's *s образумиться, прийти в себя - to act against all * действовать /поступать/ неразумно здравый смысл (тж. common *) - a man of * разумный /здравомыслящий/ человек - to show good * проявить здравый смысл - to appeal to smb.'s good /common/ * взывать к чьему-л. здравому смыслу - to talk * говорить разумно /дельно/ - there is no * in doing this нет смысла /не стоит/ делать это - to have too much * to do smth., to have more * than to do smth. быть достаточно умным, чтобы сделать что-л. /не сделать чего-л./ - to make use of one's *s (разговорное) шевелить мозгами, думать - use a little *! (разговорное) шевели мозгами!, подумай! - he had the good * to make a wise choice у него хватило ума /здравого смысла/ сделать правильный выбор значение, важность( чего-л.) - to make * иметь смысл, быть нужным - this decision makes * это решение имеет смысл - it doesn't make *, it makes no * at all это лишено всякого смысла;
это вздор /чушь/ - his attitude doesn't make * его отношение трудно понять - I cannot make out the * of... не могу понять смысла (чего-л.) значение - strict * точное значение - archaic * устаревшее значение - in the narrow * of the word в узком значении этого слова - in the best * of the term в лучшем смысле этого слова - in a (certain) * в некотором смысле, до некоторой степени - in no * ни в каком смысле, ни в каком отношении - in no * a genius отнюдь не гений - in every * во всех отношениях - the marriage was in every * happy брак был во всех отношениях счастливым - in more *s than one и притом во многих значениях этого слова;
и притом во многих отношениях - the word has acquired an disparaging * это слово приобрело неодобрительный оттенок общее настроение, дух - to take the * of the meeting определить настроение /мнение/ собрания (путем голосования, опроса) ;
поставить вопрос на голосование - the * of the conference was manifest отношение конференции (к этому вопросу) было очевидным (специальное) направление - * of rotation направление вращения - * finder определитель направления > deprivation of *s сенсорная депривация;
выключение органов чувств (при тренировке космонавтов и т. п.) чувствовать, осознавать - to * danger чуять опасность - he *d our hostility он почувствовал наше враждебное отношение - I had *d as much я так и думал, я это предвидел понимать, отдавать себе отчет - she fully *d the danger of her position она целиком отдавала себе отчет в опасности своего положения all-inclusive ~ широкий смысл to come to one's ~s взяться за ум;
to frighten (или to scare) (smb.) out of his senses напугать (кого-л.) до потери сознания to come to one's ~s прийти в себя community ~ общественное значение ~ чувство;
ощущение;
the five senses пять чувств;
sixth sense шестое чувство, интуиция to come to one's ~s взяться за ум;
to frighten (или to scare) (smb.) out of his senses напугать (кого-л.) до потери сознания good ~ здравый смысл to have keen (или quick) ~s остро чувствовать, ощущать ~ pl сознание;
разум;
in one's senses в своем уме;
have you taken leave (или are you out) of your senses? с ума вы сошли? to talk ~ говорить дельно, разумно;
he is talking sense он дело говорит horse ~ разг. грубоватый здравый смысл in the strict(est) (или true) ~ of the word в (самом) точном значении слова;
in a good sense в хорошем смысле (слова) in a literal ~ в буквальном смысле слова;
in a sense в известном смысле, до известной степени in a literal ~ в буквальном смысле слова;
in a sense в известном смысле, до известной степени in all ~s во всех смыслах, во всех отношениях;
in no sense ни в каком отношении in all ~s во всех смыслах, во всех отношениях;
in no sense ни в каком отношении ~ pl сознание;
разум;
in one's senses в своем уме;
have you taken leave (или are you out) of your senses? с ума вы сошли? in the strict(est) (или true) ~ of the word в (самом) точном значении слова;
in a good sense в хорошем смысле (слова) ~ смысл, значение;
it makes no sense в этом нет смысла legal ~ юридический смысл a ~ of duty чувство долга;
a sense of humour чувство юмора a ~ of failure сознание неудачи;
a sense of proportion чувство меры ~ of justice смысл правосудия ~ of justice чувство справедливости a ~ of failure сознание неудачи;
a sense of proportion чувство меры ~ чувство;
ощущение;
the five senses пять чувств;
sixth sense шестое чувство, интуиция ~ настроение;
to take the senses of the meeting определить настроение собрания посредством голосования to talk ~ говорить дельно, разумно;
he is talking sense он дело говорит widest ~ в самом широком смысле

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human health
The avoidance of disease and injury and the promotion of normalcy through efficient use of the environment, a properly functioning society, and an inner sense of well-being. (Source: KOREN)
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Тематики
- охрана окружающей среды
EN
- human health
DE
- menschliche Gesundheit
FR
- santé humaine
Англо-русский словарь нормативно-технической терминологии > human health
12 ear

I iə noun
1) (the part of the head by means of which we hear, or its external part only: Her new hair-style covers her ears.) oreja

2) (the sense or power of hearing especially the ability to hear the difference between sounds: sharp ears; He has a good ear for music.) oído

•

- earache
- eardrum
- earlobe
- earmark
- earring
- earshot
- be all ears
- go in one ear and out the other
- play by ear
- up to one's ears in
- up to one's ears
II iə noun
(the part of a cereal plant which contains the seed: ears of corn.) espiga

ear n

1. oreja

he wears an earring in his left ear lleva un pendiente en la oreja izquierda

2. oído

she's got a good ear for music tiene buen oído para la música

3. espiga

an ear of wheat una espiga de trigo

ear

tr[ɪə^SMALLr/SMALL]

noun

1 SMALLANATOMY/SMALL oreja

2 (sense) oído

\

SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL

by ear de oído

to be all ears ser todo,-a oídos

to be out on one's ear encontrarse de patitas en la calle

to be up to one's ears in something estar hasta el cuello de algo

to have a good ear for something tener oído para algo

■ he's got a good ear for music tiene oído para la música

to have the ear of somebody hacerse escuchar por alguien

to go in at one ear and out at the other entrarle por un oído y salirle por el otro

to keep one's ear to the ground estar al corriente

to play something by ear tocar algo de oído

to play it by ear figurative use improvisar

to turn a deaf ear hacer oídos sordos

somebody's ears are burning le silban los oídos a alguien

ear lobe lóbulo

ear, nose and throat specialist otorrinolaringólogo,-a

ear shell oreja de mar

ear trumpet trompetilla

thick ear bofetada

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ear

tr[ɪə^SMALLr/SMALL]

noun

1 (of cereal) espiga

ear ['ɪr] n

1) : oído m, oreja f

inner ear: oído interno

big ears: orejas grandes

2)

ear of corn : mazorca f, choclo m

ear

n.

• asa* s.f.

• espiga s.f.

• espigón s.m.

• mazorca s.f.

• oreja s.f.

• oído s.m.

ɪr, ɪə(r)
noun

1)

a) ( Anat) oreja f; ( organ) oído m

the inner/middle/outer ear — el oído interno/medio/externo

her ears must be burning — le deben estar ardiendo las orejas or zumbando los oídos

to be all ears — ser* todo oídos

to be wet behind the ears — estar* verde, no tener* experiencia

to fall down about o around one's ears: the house is falling down around our ears la casa se nos está viniendo abajo or cayendo a pedazos; to fall on deaf ears caer* en oídos sordos; to give somebody a thick ear (colloq) darle* una torta or un moquete a alguien (fam); to go in one ear and out the other (colloq): it just goes in one ear and out the other me/te/le entra por un oído y me/te/le sale por el otro; to have/keep one's ear to the ground mantenerse* atento; to lend an ear to somebody prestarle atención a alguien; to prick up one's ears \<\<person\>\> aguzar* el oído, parar la(s) oreja(s) (AmL fam); ( lit) \<\<dog/horse\>\> levantar or (AmL) parar las orejas; to set something on its ear (AmE) causar revuelo en algo, revolucionar algo; to turn a deaf ear to somebody/something — hacer* oídos sordos a alguien/algo

b) ( sense of hearing) (no pl) oído m

to have a good ear for music/languages — tener* oído para la música/los idiomas

to play something by ear — tocar* algo de oído

to play it by ear: I don't know what I'm going to say, I'll just have to play it by ear — no sé que voy a decir, ya veré llegado el momento or sobre la marcha

2) ( of corn) espiga f

I [ɪǝ(r)]
1. N

1) (Anat) (=outer part) oreja f; (=rest of organ) oído m

she has small ears — tiene las orejas pequeñas

• he could not believe his ears — no daba crédito a sus oídos

• he was grinning from ear to ear — la mueca le llegaba de oreja a oreja

• he whispered in her ear — le susurró al oído

• inner/ middle/ outer ear — oído m interno/medio/externo

• to prick up one's ears — [person] aguzar el oído; [animal] empinar las orejas

• he was looking for a sympathetic ear — buscaba a alguien que le escuchara

• a word in your ear — una palabra en confianza

- be all ears

- bend sb's ear

- I bet his ears were burning

- close or shut one's ears to sth

they closed or shut their ears to everything that was being said — hicieron caso omiso de todo lo que se dijo

- fall or crash down around or about one's ears

the house is falling down around my ears — la casa se está viniendo abajo

it brought their world crashing down around their ears — hizo que el mundo se les viniera abajo

- fall on deaf ears

- it goes in one ear and out the other

- have/keep one's ears to the ground

- have sb's ear

- lend an ear

they're always willing to lend an ear and offer advice — siempre están dispuestos a escuchar y dar consejos

- listen with half an ear

- be out on one's ear

if you don't work harder, you'll be out on your ear — como no arrimes más el hombro te verás en la calle *

- pin back one's ears

- give sb a thick ear

- be up to one's ears

- have money/houses coming out of one's ears

I had football/pizza coming out of my ears — el fútbol/la pizza me salía por las orejas, estaba harto de fútbol/pizza

- be wet behind the ears
cauliflower, deaf, flea, pig, box II, 1.
2) (=sense of hearing) oído m

her voice was very pleasing to the ear — tenía una voz muy agradable al oído

• to play sth by ear — (lit) tocar algo de oído

we don't know what to expect, we'll just have to play it by ear — (fig) no sabemos a qué atenernos, tendremos que improvisar sobre la marcha

• she has an ear for languages — tiene oído para los idiomas

she has a good ear (for music) — tiene buen oído (para la música)

2.

CPD

ear infection N — infección f de oído

ear lobe N — lóbulo m de la oreja

ear, nose and throat department N — sección f de otorrinolaringología

ear, nose and throat specialist N — otorrinolaringólogo(-a) m / f

ear trumpet N — trompetilla f acústica

ear wax N — cerumen m, cera f de los oídos

II

[ɪǝ(r)]
N [of cereal] espiga f
* * *
[ɪr, ɪə(r)]
noun

1)

a) ( Anat) oreja f; ( organ) oído m

the inner/middle/outer ear — el oído interno/medio/externo

her ears must be burning — le deben estar ardiendo las orejas or zumbando los oídos

to be all ears — ser* todo oídos

to be wet behind the ears — estar* verde, no tener* experiencia

to fall down about o around one's ears: the house is falling down around our ears la casa se nos está viniendo abajo or cayendo a pedazos; to fall on deaf ears caer* en oídos sordos; to give somebody a thick ear (colloq) darle* una torta or un moquete a alguien (fam); to go in one ear and out the other (colloq): it just goes in one ear and out the other me/te/le entra por un oído y me/te/le sale por el otro; to have/keep one's ear to the ground mantenerse* atento; to lend an ear to somebody prestarle atención a alguien; to prick up one's ears \<\<person\>\> aguzar* el oído, parar la(s) oreja(s) (AmL fam); ( lit) \<\<dog/horse\>\> levantar or (AmL) parar las orejas; to set something on its ear (AmE) causar revuelo en algo, revolucionar algo; to turn a deaf ear to somebody/something — hacer* oídos sordos a alguien/algo

b) ( sense of hearing) (no pl) oído m

to have a good ear for music/languages — tener* oído para la música/los idiomas

to play something by ear — tocar* algo de oído

to play it by ear: I don't know what I'm going to say, I'll just have to play it by ear — no sé que voy a decir, ya veré llegado el momento or sobre la marcha

2) ( of corn) espiga f

English-spanish dictionary > ear
13 man

mæn
1. сущ.
1) человек fat man ≈ толстый человек short man ≈ человек низкого роста tall man ≈ высокий человек thin man ≈ тоненький, худой человек handsome man ≈ красивый человек ugly man ≈ некрасивый человек straight man ≈ честный человек, простак wise man ≈ мудрый человек grown man ≈ взрослый человек young man ≈ молодой человек middle-aged man ≈ человек среднего возраста old man ≈ старик divorced man ≈ разведенный человек married man ≈ женатый человек single man ≈ одинокий, неженатый человек the man in the street ≈ "человек с улицы", рядовой человек - average man - Cro-Magnon man - Java man - Neanderthal man - Paleolithic man - Peking man - fancy man - hatchet man - hit man - idea man - ladies' man - organization man - self-made man - man on horseback - straw man - Renaissance man - right-hand man - professional man - family man - marked man Syn: individual, person, human being, human, living being, living soul, soul, one;
anyone, somebody, someone
2) в устойчивых сочетаниях: а) как представитель профессии;
б) как обладатель определенных качеств man of law ≈ адвокат, юрист man of letters ≈ литератор, писатель, автор, сочинитель man of office ≈ чиновник man of ideas ≈ изобретательный, находчивый человек man of motley ≈ шут university man ≈ человек с университетским образованием advance man enlisted men maintenance man newspaperman rewrite man stunt man second-story man man of the pen man of character man of no scruples man of sense man of great ambition
3) мужчина The average man is taller than the average woman. ≈ Средний мужчина выше средней женщины. Syn: male, masculine person
4) человеческий род, человечество Man cannot live by bread alone. ≈ Не хлебом единым жив человек. Syn: mankind, the human race, men and women, human beings, humankind, people, humanity, homo sapiens
5) слуга;
рабочий Hire a man to take care of the garden. ≈ Найми садовника, который будет следить за садом. Syn: handyman, workman, hired hand, hand, labourer;
employee, worker;
manservant, male servant, boy, waiter
6) муж The minister pronounced them man and wife. ≈ Священник объявил их мужем и женой. Syn: married man, husband, spouse
7) мн. солдаты, рядовые;
матросы
8) ист. вассал
9) пешка, шашка( в игре) ∙ be one's own man
2. гл.
1) а) укомплектовывать кадрами;
воен., мор. укомплектовывать личным составом б) размещать людей;
ставить людей (к орудию и т. п.) ;
сажать людей (на корабль и т. п.) в) занимать( позиции и т. п.) ;
становиться( к орудиям и т. п.) The crew was ordered to man the lifeboats. ≈ Команде было приказано занять места в шлюпке. ∙ Syn: attend, staff, take up one's position in, take one's place at, get to one's post;
supply with hands, furnish with men;
equip, fit out, outfit;
garrison
2) мужаться, брать себя в руки Syn: encourage, cheer up
3) охот. приручать мужчина, человек - there were three men and two women in the room в комнате было трое мужчин и две женщины - to play the * поступать /вести себя/, как подобает мужчине - to make a * of smb. сделать из кого-л. настоящего мужчину /человека/ - to bear smth. like a * мужественно переносить что-л. - be a *! будь мужчиной! - he is only half a * он не настоящий мужчина - * to *, between * and * как мужчина с мужчиной - a good * хороший /добрый, порядочный/ человек - a * of thirty мужчина /человек/ тридцати лет;
тридцатилетний мужчина - a * of action человек дела /действия/, энергичный человек - a * of character волевой человек, сильная личность - a * of moods человек настроения - a * of peace мирный /миролюбивый/ человек - a * of principle принципиальный человек - a * of sense разумный /здравомыслящий/ человек - a * of wisdom мудрый /умный/ человек - a * of ideas изобретательный /находчивый/ человек - a * of many parts разносторонний человек - a * of genius гениальный человек - a * of honour честный /порядочный/ человек - a * of distinction /of mark, of note/ выдающийся /знаменитый/ человек - a * of taste человек со вкусом - a * of few words немногословный /немногоречивый/ человек - a * of many words многословный человек - a * of his word человек слова, господин /хозяин/ своего слова - a * of family семейный человек - a * of means /of property/ человек со средствами, состоятельный человек - a * of business деловой человек;
агент;
поверенный - you'll have to speak to my * of business вам придется поговорить с моим поверенным - a * of law законник;
адвокат;
юрист - a * of letters писатель, литератор;
(устаревшее) ученый - he is the very * for this job он самый подходящий человек для этого дела - if you want a good music teacher, here's your * если вам нужен хороший учитель музыки, вот он( самый подходящий для вас человек) - if you want to sell the car, I'm your * если вы хотите продать машину, я куплю /я согласен купить/ - I feel a new * я чувствую себя обновленным, я как заново родился - if any * comes... если кто-нибудь /какой-нибудь человек/ придет... муж - * and wife муж и жена - to live as * and wife жить как муж с женой - he made them * and wife он обвенчал их (университетское) студент: окончивший, выпускник - a University * человек с университетским образованием - an Oxford * студент из Оксфорда;
человек, окончивший Оксфордский университет, выпускник Оксфорда - senior * старшекурсник( пренебрежительное) приятель (в обращении) - speak up, *!, speak up, my (good) *! ну, говори же, друг! - hurry up, *!, hurry up, my (good) *! да поскорей же, приятель! - come along, *!, come along, my ( good) *! ну пошли, мой милый! - nonsense, *!, nonsense, my (good) *! чепуха! - well, * /my (good) */, where is it? ну, милый мой, так где же это? человек - the rights of * права человека - food not fit for * or beast пища, не пригодная для людей или животных - board at - per * пансион (стоит) один доллар с человека - *'s sense of himself самосознание - men say that... люди говорят, что... - any * could do that любой( человек) может это сделать - what can a * do? что (тут) поделаешь? - all men are brothers все люди братья - as one /a/ * все как один - to a * все до одного, все как один ( человек), все без исключения;
единогласно - to the last * все до одного, все до последнего человека - all sorts and conditions of men, men of all conditions люди всякого рода, самые разные люди - to mistake one's * ошибиться в человеке - * overboard! человек за бортом! (без артикля) человечество, человеческий род слуга рабочий - the manager spoke to the men управляющий поговорил с рабочим - this factory employs 300 men на этой фабрике работает триста рабочих солдат, рядовой, матрос рядовой состав - officers and men офицеры и солдаты пешка шашка (в игре), фишка - to jump a * брать шашку игрок (в спорт. команде) (историческое) вассал сокр. от man-of-war, merchantman и т. п. (-man) как компонент сложных слов означает занятие, профессию - clergyman священник - postman почтальон - sportsman спортсмен - workman рабочий > the inner * внутреннее "я", душа;
желудок > to refresh the inner * поесть, подкрепиться > the outer * плоть;
внешность, костюм > to clothe the outer * одеться > odd * решающий голос;
человек, выполняющий случайную работу > odd * out "третий лишний" (игра) > heavy * (театроведение) (профессионализм) актер, исполняющий трагические роли > one-dollar-a-year * (американизм) крупный капиталист, участвующий в деятельности правительственных органов и получающий номинальный оклад в один доллар в год > * of the house глава семьи > my old * мой отец > men of the day герои дня > a * of the world человек, умудренный опытом, бывалый человек;
светский человек > a * about town светский человек, богатый повеса, жуир > a * of the turf завсегдатай скачек > a * of straw соломенное чучело;
человек с небольшими средствами;
ненадежный человек;
подставное /фиктивное/ лицо;
воображаемый противник > a * of God святой;
духовное лицо > M. of Sorrows( библеизм) Муж скорбей > a * in a thousand редкий /исключительный/ человек;
таких людей мало, такого человека редко встретишь;
такого человека поискать надо > * in blue полицейский;
моряк > men in blue (американизм) (историческое) федеральные войска > the * in the street( американизм) тж. the * in the car "человек с улицы", средний /рядовой/ гражданин > the next * (американизм) всякий другой, любой;
первый встречный > a run-of-the-mill * заурядный человек > the * in the moon вымышленное лицо > * and boy с юных лет;
(устаревшее) все как один > he lived there * and boy он всю жизнь прожил там > I have known him * and boy я его знаю с детства > * and boy turned out into the street все как один высыпали на улицу > the * for me, the * for my money этот человек мне подходит, этот человек меня устраивает > the * higher up начальник, хозяин, босс;
высшая инстанция > the * at the wheel руководитель > M. Friday Пятница, верный /преданный/ слуга > no *'s land нейтральная територрия > to hit a * when he is down бить лежачего > to be one's own * прийти в себя;
быть в норме;
держать себя в руках;
ни от кого не зависеть, свободно распоряжаться собой, быть хозяином своей судьбы > he is his own * он сам себе хозяин > a * or a mouse либо пан, либо пропал > like master like * у хорошего хозяина и работники хороши > every * to his (own) taste на вкус и цвет товарищей нет;
о вкусах не спорят > (so) many men, (so) many minds (пословица) сколько голов, столько умов > a drowning * will catch at a straw (пословица) утопающий за соломинку хватается > every * has his hobby-horse у каждого есть свой конек /своя страсть, своя прихоть/;
у каждого есть свои маленькие слабости > a * is known by the company he keeps (пословица) скажи мне, кто твой друг, и я скажу (тебе), кто ты > one *'s meat is another *'s poison( пословица) что полезно одному, то вредно другому;
усопшему мир, а лекарю пир > a * can die but once двум смертям не бывать, а одной не миновать > * proposes but God disposes( пословица) человек предполагает, а Бог располагает > * alive! боже милостивый!, боже правый!;
вот те на!, вот так так! укомплектовывать кадрами, персоналом( военное) (морское) укомплектовывать личным составом;
занимать людьми;
ставить людей (к орудию и т. п.) ;
посадить людей (на транспорт) - to * a unit укомплектовать часть личным составом - to * a boat сажать гребцов на шлюпку - to * the pumps поставить людей к насосам /к помпам/ занять (позиции) ;
стать( к орудиям) - to * the defenses занимать оборонительные позиции - to * the guns занимать места у орудий собрать все свое мужество, мужаться, взять себя в руки (охота) приручать (сокола и т. п.) ad ~ рекламный агент ad ~ специалист по рекламе to be one's own ~ быть независимым, самостоятельным;
свободно распоряжаться собой to be one's own ~ прийти в себя, быть в норме;
держать себя в руках contact ~ контактный человек contact ~ посредник contact ~ представитель delivery ~ курьер delivery ~ разносчик delivery ~ рассыльный delivery ~ экспедитор every ~ to his own taste = на вкус на цвет товарищей нет good ~! здорово!, здравствуй!;
man and boy с юных лет;
(all) to a man все до одного, как один (человек), все без исключения ~ слуга, человек;
I'm your man разг. я к вашим услугам, я согласен ideas ~ рекл. носитель идей insurance ~ страховой агент maintenance ~ механик, выполняющий техническое обслуживание maintenance ~ техник по обслуживанию оборудования ~ in the street, амер. тж. man in the car заурядный человек, обыватель;
man about town светский человек;
прожигатель жизни town: ~ attr. городской;
town house городская квартира;
town water вода из городского водопровода;
a man about town человек, ведущий светский образ жизни good ~! здорово!, здравствуй!;
man and boy с юных лет;
(all) to a man все до одного, как один (человек), все без исключения ~ муж;
man and wife муж и жена ~ in the street, амер. тж. man in the car заурядный человек, обыватель;
man about town светский человек;
прожигатель жизни ~ in the street, амер. тж. man in the car заурядный человек, обыватель;
man about town светский человек;
прожигатель жизни street: street: the man in the ~ обыватель;
заурядный человек;
to walk the streets, to be on the streets заниматься проституцией ~ of courage храбрый, мужественный человек;
man of decision решительный человек ~ of distinction (или mark, note) выдающийся, знаменитый человек ~ of ideas изобретательный, находчивый человек;
man of pleasure сластолюбец ~ в устойчивых сочетаниях: как представитель профессии: man of law адвокат, юрист ~ of means состоятельный человек mean: ~ pl средства, состояние, богатство;
means of subsistence средства к существованию;
a man of means человек со средствами, состоятельный человек ~ of principle принципиальный человек;
man of no principles беспринципный человек principle: man of high(est) ~ высокопринципиальный человек;
a man of no principles беспринципный человек ~ of no scruples недобросовестный, бессовестный человек;
man of sense здравомыслящий, разумный человек ~ of letters писатель, литератор, ученый;
man of office чиновник;
man of the pen литератор ~ of ideas изобретательный, находчивый человек;
man of pleasure сластолюбец pleasure: ~ удовольствие, наслаждение;
развлечение;
to take pleasure (in smth.) находить удовольствие( в чем-л.) ;
man of pleasure жуир, сибарит ~ of principle принципиальный человек;
man of no principles беспринципный человек ~ of property собственник property: ~ имущество;
собственность;
хозяйство;
a property земельная собственность, поместье;
имение;
a man of property собственник;
богач ~ of no scruples недобросовестный, бессовестный человек;
man of sense здравомыслящий, разумный человек sense: sense здравый смысл (тж. common sense, good sense) ;
ум;
a man of sense разумный человек ~ of straw воображаемый противник ~ of straw ненадежный человек ~ of straw подставное, фиктивное лицо ~ of straw соломенное чучело straw: a man of ~ воображаемый противник;
not to care a straw относиться совершенно безразлично;
a straw in the wind намек, указание a man of ~ ненадежный человек a man of ~ подставное, фиктивное лицо a man of ~ соломенное чучело ~ of taste человек со вкусом ~ of letters писатель, литератор, ученый;
man of office чиновник;
man of the pen литератор ~ of the world светский человек ~ of the world человек, умудренный жизненным опытом ~ of worth достойный, почтенный человек;
сочетания типа family man, self-made man, medical man, leading man, etc. см. под family, self-made, medical, leading, etc. worth: ~ достоинства;
a man of worth достойный, заслуживающий уважения человек;
he was never aware of her worth он никогда не ценил ее по заслугам ~ подбодрять;
to man oneself мужаться, брать себя в руки media ~ работник средств массовой информации ~ of worth достойный, почтенный человек;
сочетания типа family man, self-made man, medical man, leading man, etc. см. под family, self-made, medical, leading, etc. medical: medical врачебный, медицинский;
medical aid медицинская помощь;
the medical profession медицинские работники, врачи ~ врачебный, медицинский ~ разг. студент-медик ~ терапевтический;
medical ward терапевтическое отделение больницы ~ of worth достойный, почтенный человек;
сочетания типа family man, self-made man, medical man, leading man, etc. см. под family, self-made, medical, leading, etc. medical: ~ man врач meter ~ весовщик meter ~ землемер meter ~ контролер на платной автостоянке reasonable ~ благоразумный человек reasonably prudent ~ осторожный человек prudent: reasonably ~ man расчетливый человек ~ of worth достойный, почтенный человек;
сочетания типа family man, self-made man, medical man, leading man, etc. см. под family, self-made, medical, leading, etc. ~ of worth достойный, почтенный человек;
сочетания типа family man, self-made man, medical man, leading man, etc. см. под family, self-made, medical, leading, etc. tally ~ контролер при погрузке и выгрузке товара tally ~ лицо, продающее товар по образцам tally ~ лицо, продающее товар в рассрочку tally ~ лицо, продающее товар в кредит tally ~ счетчик tally ~ тальман good ~! здорово!, здравствуй!;
man and boy с юных лет;
(all) to a man все до одного, как один (человек), все без исключения wealthy ~ богатый человек

Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > man
14 Computers

   1) A Comparison of the Digital Computer and the Brain

   The brain has been compared to a digital computer because the neuron, like a switch or valve, either does or does not complete a circuit. But at that point the similarity ends. The switch in the digital computer is constant in its effect, and its effect is large in proportion to the total output of the machine. The effect produced by the neuron varies with its recovery from [the] refractory phase and with its metabolic state. The number of neurons involved in any action runs into millions so that the inﬂuence of any one is negligible.... Any cell in the system can be dispensed with.... The brain is an analogical machine, not digital. Analysis of the integrative activities will probably have to be in statistical terms. (Lashley, quoted in Beach, Hebb, Morgan & Nissen, 1960, p. 539)

   2) Computers Do Not Crunch Numbers, They Manipulate Symbols

   It is essential to realize that a computer is not a mere "number cruncher," or supercalculating arithmetic machine, although this is how computers are commonly regarded by people having no familiarity with artificial intelligence. Computers do not crunch numbers; they manipulate symbols.... Digital computers originally developed with mathematical problems in mind, are in fact general purpose symbol manipulating machines....

   The terms "computer" and "computation" are themselves unfortunate, in view of their misleading arithmetical connotations. The definition of artificial intelligence previously cited-"the study of intelligence as computation"-does not imply that intelligence is really counting. Intelligence may be defined as the ability creatively to manipulate symbols, or process information, given the requirements of the task in hand. (Boden, 1981, pp. 15, 16-17)

   3) Getting Computers to Explain Things to Themselves

   The task is to get computers to explain things to themselves, to ask questions about their experiences so as to cause those explanations to be forthcoming, and to be creative in coming up with explanations that have not been previously available. (Schank, 1986, p. 19)

   4) Some Limits of Artificial Intelligence

   In What Computers Can't Do, written in 1969 (2nd edition, 1972), the main objection to AI was the impossibility of using rules to select only those facts about the real world that were relevant in a given situation. The "Introduction" to the paperback edition of the book, published by Harper & Row in 1979, pointed out further that no one had the slightest idea how to represent the common sense understanding possessed even by a four-year-old. (Dreyfus & Dreyfus, 1986, p. 102)

   5) The Computer as a Humanizing Inﬂuence

   A popular myth says that the invention of the computer diminishes our sense of ourselves, because it shows that rational thought is not special to human beings, but can be carried on by a mere machine. It is a short stop from there to the conclusion that intelligence is mechanical, which many people find to be an affront to all that is most precious and singular about their humanness.

   In fact, the computer, early in its career, was not an instrument of the philistines, but a humanizing inﬂuence. It helped to revive an idea that had fallen into disrepute: the idea that the mind is real, that it has an inner structure and a complex organization, and can be understood in scientific terms. For some three decades, until the 1940s, American psychology had lain in the grip of the ice age of behaviorism, which was antimental through and through. During these years, extreme behaviorists banished the study of thought from their agenda. Mind and consciousness, thinking, imagining, planning, solving problems, were dismissed as worthless for anything except speculation. Only the external aspects of behavior, the surface manifestations, were grist for the scientist's mill, because only they could be observed and measured....

   It is one of the surprising gifts of the computer in the history of ideas that it played a part in giving back to psychology what it had lost, which was nothing less than the mind itself. In particular, there was a revival of interest in how the mind represents the world internally to itself, by means of knowledge structures such as ideas, symbols, images, and inner narratives, all of which had been consigned to the realm of mysticism. (Campbell, 1989, p. 10)

   6) The Intentionality of Computers Is Essentially Borrowed, Hence Derivative

   [Our artifacts] only have meaning because we give it to them; their intentionality, like that of smoke signals and writing, is essentially borrowed, hence derivative. To put it bluntly: computers themselves don't mean anything by their tokens (any more than books do)-they only mean what we say they do. Genuine understanding, on the other hand, is intentional "in its own right" and not derivatively from something else. (Haugeland, 1981a, pp. 32-33)

   7) The Possibility of Computer Thought

   he debate over the possibility of computer thought will never be won or lost; it will simply cease to be of interest, like the previous debate over man as a clockwork mechanism. (Bolter, 1984, p. 190)

   8) We Are Getting Better at Building Even Better Computers, an Ever- Escalating Upward Spiral

   t takes us a long time to emotionally digest a new idea. The computer is too big a step, and too recently made, for us to quickly recover our balance and gauge its potential. It's an enormous accelerator, perhaps the greatest one since the plow, twelve thousand years ago. As an intelligence amplifier, it speeds up everything-including itself-and it continually improves because its heart is information or, more plainly, ideas. We can no more calculate its consequences than Babbage could have foreseen antibiotics, the Pill, or space stations.

   Further, the effects of those ideas are rapidly compounding, because a computer design is itself just a set of ideas. As we get better at manipulating ideas by building ever better computers, we get better at building even better computers-it's an ever-escalating upward spiral. The early nineteenth century, when the computer's story began, is already so far back that it may as well be the Stone Age. (Rawlins, 1997, p. 19)

   9) Weak Artificial Intelligence and Strong Artificial Intelligence

   According to weak AI, the principle value of the computer in the study of the mind is that it gives us a very powerful tool. For example, it enables us to formulate and test hypotheses in a more rigorous and precise fashion than before. But according to strong AI the computer is not merely a tool in the study of the mind; rather the appropriately programmed computer really is a mind in the sense that computers given the right programs can be literally said to understand and have other cognitive states. And according to strong AI, because the programmed computer has cognitive states, the programs are not mere tools that enable us to test psychological explanations; rather, the programs are themselves the explanations. (Searle, 1981b, p. 353)

    10) Why People Are Smarter Than Computers

   What makes people smarter than machines? They certainly are not quicker or more precise. Yet people are far better at perceiving objects in natural scenes and noting their relations, at understanding language and retrieving contextually appropriate information from memory, at making plans and carrying out contextually appropriate actions, and at a wide range of other natural cognitive tasks. People are also far better at learning to do these things more accurately and ﬂuently through processing experience.

   What is the basis for these differences? One answer, perhaps the classic one we might expect from artificial intelligence, is "software." If we only had the right computer program, the argument goes, we might be able to capture the ﬂuidity and adaptability of human information processing. Certainly this answer is partially correct. There have been great breakthroughs in our understanding of cognition as a result of the development of expressive high-level computer languages and powerful algorithms. However, we do not think that software is the whole story.

   In our view, people are smarter than today's computers because the brain employs a basic computational architecture that is more suited to deal with a central aspect of the natural information processing tasks that people are so good at.... hese tasks generally require the simultaneous consideration of many pieces of information or constraints. Each constraint may be imperfectly specified and ambiguous, yet each can play a potentially decisive role in determining the outcome of processing. (McClelland, Rumelhart & Hinton, 1986, pp. 3-4)

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15 conscience

1. n совесть

clear conscience — чистая совесть

bad conscience — нечистая совесть

pangs of conscience — угрызения совести

freedom of conscience — свобода совести; свобода вероисповедания

bad conscience — нечистая совесть

clear conscience — чистая совесть

quiet conscience — чистая совесть

evil conscience — нечистая совесть

easy conscience — спокойная совесть

2. n сознание

public conscience — общественное сознание

matter and conscience — материя и сознание

my conscience! — вот так так!; вот те на!

a guilty conscience is a self-accuser — нечистая совесть спать не даёт

conscience of guilt — сознание вины

dual conscience — раздвоенное сознание

Синонимический ряд:

1. being (noun) being; bosom; breast; character; heart; mind; psyche

2. ethics (noun) ethics; morals; principles; scruples; standards

3. grace (noun) decency; grace

4. qualm (noun) compunction; demur; qualm; scruple; squeam

5. sense of right and wrong (noun) duty; inner voice; moral sense; rectitude; sense of right and wrong; shame; the still small voice; uprightness

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16 Perception

   1) The Nature of Perception

    Perception is the immediate discriminatory response of the organism to energy-activating sense organs.... To discriminate is to make a choice reaction in which contextual conditions play a deciding role. (Bartley, 1969, pp. 11-12)

   2) The Problem of Recoding Perceptions to Achieve Understanding

   t seems (to many) that we cannot account for perception unless we suppose it provides us with an internal image (or model or map) of the external world, and yet what good would that image do us unless we have an inner eye to perceive it, and how are we to explain its capacity for perception? It also seems (to many) that understanding a heard sentence must be somehow translating it into some internal message, but how will this message be understood: by translating it into something else? The problem is an old one, and let's call it Hume's Problem, for while he did not state it explicitly, he appreciated its force and strove mightily to escape its clutches. (Dennett, 1978a, p. 122)

   3) We Sense the Presence of a Stimulus, But We Perceive What It Is

    Perception refers to the way in which we interpret the information gathered (and processed) by the senses. In a word, we sense the presence of a stimulus, but we perceive what it is. (Levine & Schefner, 1981, p. 1)

   4) Locating the Source of a Perception or an Idea

   [W]henever we do try and find the source of... a perception or an idea, we find ourselves in an ever-receding fractal, and wherever we choose to delve we find it equally full of details and interdependencies. It is always the perception of a perception of a perception. (Varela, 1984, p. 320)

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17 ear

I 1. [ɪə(r)]
nome

1) anat. zool. orecchio m., orecchia f.

inner, outer ear — orecchio interno, esterno

2) (hearing) orecchio m.

to play music by ear — suonare a orecchio

to have an ear for — avere orecchio per [languages, music]
2.
modificatore [infection, operation] (of one ear) all'orecchio; (of both ears) alle orecchie

••

he is wet behind the ears — ha ancora il latte alla bocca

about o around one's ears tutto intorno a sé; my ears are burning mi fischiano le orecchie; to be all ears essere tutto orecchi; to be out on one's ear (from job) essere licenziato su due piedi; (from home) essere cacciato; to be up to one's ears in debt essere indebitato fin sopra ai capelli o fino al collo; to get a thick ear prendersi uno schiaffone; to have a word in sb.'s ear dire una parola all'orecchio di qcn.; to go in one ear and out the other entrare da un orecchio e uscire dall'altro; to have the ear of sb. avere ascolto presso qcn.; to have o keep one's ear to the ground stare all'erta; to listen with (only) half an ear ascoltare con un orecchio solo; to play it by ear — improvvisare
II [ɪə(r)]
nome bot. (of wheat) spiga f.; (of corn) pannocchia f.

* * *
I [iə] noun
1) (the part of the head by means of which we hear, or its external part only: Her new hair-style covers her ears.)

2) (the sense or power of hearing especially the ability to hear the difference between sounds: sharp ears; He has a good ear for music.)

•

- earache
- eardrum
- earlobe
- earmark
- earring
- earshot
- be all ears
- go in one ear and out the other
- play by ear
- up to one's ears in
- up to one's ears II [iə] noun
(the part of a cereal plant which contains the seed: ears of corn.)

* * *
I 1. [ɪə(r)]
nome

1) anat. zool. orecchio m., orecchia f.

inner, outer ear — orecchio interno, esterno

2) (hearing) orecchio m.

to play music by ear — suonare a orecchio

to have an ear for — avere orecchio per [languages, music]
2.
modificatore [infection, operation] (of one ear) all'orecchio; (of both ears) alle orecchie

••

he is wet behind the ears — ha ancora il latte alla bocca

about o around one's ears tutto intorno a sé; my ears are burning mi fischiano le orecchie; to be all ears essere tutto orecchi; to be out on one's ear (from job) essere licenziato su due piedi; (from home) essere cacciato; to be up to one's ears in debt essere indebitato fin sopra ai capelli o fino al collo; to get a thick ear prendersi uno schiaffone; to have a word in sb.'s ear dire una parola all'orecchio di qcn.; to go in one ear and out the other entrare da un orecchio e uscire dall'altro; to have the ear of sb. avere ascolto presso qcn.; to have o keep one's ear to the ground stare all'erta; to listen with (only) half an ear ascoltare con un orecchio solo; to play it by ear — improvvisare
II [ɪə(r)]
nome bot. (of wheat) spiga f.; (of corn) pannocchia f.

English-Italian dictionary > ear
18 Creativity

   1) All Human Complex Problem Solving Is Creativity

   Put in this bald way, these aims sound utopian. How utopian they areor rather, how imminent their realization-depends on how broadly or narrowly we interpret the term "creative." If we are willing to regard all human complex problem solving as creative, then-as we will point out-successful programs for problem solving mechanisms that simulate human problem solvers already exist, and a number of their general characteristics are known. If we reserve the term "creative" for activities like discovery of the special theory of relativity or the composition of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, then no example of a creative mechanism exists at the present time. (Simon, 1979, pp. 144-145)

   2) Artificial Intelligence Models of Creative Association

   Among the questions that can now be given preliminary answers in computational terms are the following: how can ideas from very different sources be spontaneously thought of together? how can two ideas be merged to produce a new structure, which shows the inﬂuence of both ancestor ideas without being a mere "cut-and-paste" combination? how can the mind be "primed," so that one will more easily notice serendipitous ideas? why may someone notice-and remember-something fairly uninteresting, if it occurs in an interesting context? how can a brief phrase conjure up an entire melody from memory? and how can we accept two ideas as similar ("love" and "prove" as rhyming, for instance) in respect of a feature not identical in both? The features of connectionist AI models that suggest answers to these questions are their powers of pattern completion, graceful degradation, sensitization, multiple constraint satisfaction, and "best-fit" equilibration.... Here, the important point is that the unconscious, "insightful," associative aspects of creativity can be explained-in outline, at least-by AI methods. (Boden, 1996, p. 273)

   3) Creative Innovation and Social Independence

   There thus appears to be an underlying similarity in the process involved in creative innovation and social independence, with common traits and postures required for expression of both behaviors. The difference is one of product-literary, musical, artistic, theoretical products on the one hand, opinions on the other-rather than one of process. In both instances the individual must believe that his perceptions are meaningful and valid and be willing to rely upon his own interpretations. He must trust himself sufficiently that even when persons express opinions counter to his own he can proceed on the basis of his own perceptions and convictions. (Coopersmith, 1967, p. 58)

   4) Ego Strength and Emotional Stability among Creative Geniuses

   he average level of ego strength and emotional stability is noticeably higher among creative geniuses than among the general population, though it is possibly lower than among men of comparable intelligence and education who go into administrative and similar positions. High anxiety and excitability appear common (e.g. Priestley, Darwin, Kepler) but full-blown neurosis is quite rare. (Cattell & Butcher, 1970, p. 315)

   5) Its Mundane Character

   he insight that is supposed to be required for such work as discovery turns out to be synonymous with the familiar process of recognition; and other terms commonly used in the discussion of creative work-such terms as "judgment," "creativity," or even "genius"-appear to be wholly dispensable or to be definable, as insight is, in terms of mundane and well-understood concepts. (Simon, 1989, p. 376)

   6) Mozart's Musical Ideas Came to Him in Polished Form

   From the sketch material still in existence, from the condition of the fragments, and from the autographs themselves we can draw definite conclusions about Mozart's creative process. To invent musical ideas he did not need any stimulation; they came to his mind "ready-made" and in polished form. In contrast to Beethoven, who made numerous attempts at shaping his musical ideas until he found the definitive formulation of a theme, Mozart's first inspiration has the stamp of finality. Any Mozart theme has completeness and unity; as a phenomenon it is a Gestalt. (Herzmann, 1964, p. 28)

   7) Scientific Theories and Works of Art Alike Originate in Fantasy

   Great artists enlarge the limits of one's perception. Looking at the world through the eyes of Rembrandt or Tolstoy makes one able to perceive aspects of truth about the world which one could not have achieved without their aid. Freud believed that science was adaptive because it facilitated mastery of the external world; but was it not the case that many scientific theories, like works of art, also originated in phantasy? Certainly, reading accounts of scientific discovery by men of the calibre of Einstein compelled me to conclude that phantasy was not merely escapist, but a way of reaching new insights concerning the nature of reality. Scientific hypotheses require proof; works of art do not. Both are concerned with creating order, with making sense out of the world and our experience of it. (Storr, 1993, p. xii)

   8) Self- Esteem and Creative Expression

   The importance of self-esteem for creative expression appears to be almost beyond disproof. Without a high regard for himself the individual who is working in the frontiers of his field cannot trust himself to discriminate between the trivial and the significant. Without trust in his own powers the person seeking improved solutions or alternative theories has no basis for distinguishing the significant and profound innovation from the one that is merely different.... An essential component of the creative process, whether it be analysis, synthesis, or the development of a new perspective or more comprehensive theory, is the conviction that one's judgment in interpreting the events is to be trusted. (Coopersmith, 1967, p. 59)

   9) Stages in Creative Problem- Solving

   In the daily stream of thought these four different stages [preparation; incubation; illumination or inspiration; and verification] constantly overlap each other as we explore different problems. An economist reading a Blue Book, a physiologist watching an experiment, or a business man going through his morning's letters, may at the same time be "incubating" on a problem which he proposed to himself a few days ago, be accumulating knowledge in "preparation" for a second problem, and be "verifying" his conclusions to a third problem. Even in exploring the same problem, the mind may be unconsciously incubating on one aspect of it, while it is consciously employed in preparing for or verifying another aspect. (Wallas, 1926, p. 81)

    10) The Bisociative Pattern of the Creative Synthesis

   he basic, bisociative pattern of the creative synthesis [is] the sudden interlocking of two previously unrelated skills, or matrices of thought. (Koestler, 1964, p. 121)

    11) The Earliest Stages in the Creative Process Involve a Commerce with Disorder

   Even to the creator himself, the earliest effort may seem to involve a commerce with disorder. For the creative order, which is an extension of life, is not an elaboration of the established, but a movement beyond the established, or at least a reorganization of it and often of elements not included in it. The first need is therefore to transcend the old order. Before any new order can be defined, the absolute power of the established, the hold upon us of what we know and are, must be broken. New life comes always from outside our world, as we commonly conceive that world. This is the reason why, in order to invent, one must yield to the indeterminate within him, or, more precisely, to certain illdefined impulses which seem to be of the very texture of the ungoverned fullness which John Livingston Lowes calls "the surging chaos of the unexpressed." (Ghiselin, 1985, p. 4)

    12) The Inner Life of the Creative Process

   New life comes always from outside our world, as we commonly conceive our world. This is the reason why, in order to invent, one must yield to the indeterminate within him, or, more precisely, to certain illdefined impulses which seem to be of the very texture of the ungoverned fullness which John Livingston Lowes calls "the surging chaos of the unexpressed." Chaos and disorder are perhaps the wrong terms for that indeterminate fullness and activity of the inner life. For it is organic, dynamic, full of tension and tendency. What is absent from it, except in the decisive act of creation, is determination, fixity, and commitment to one resolution or another of the whole complex of its tensions. (Ghiselin, 1952, p. 13)

    13) The Problem of What Impels the Creative Person

   [P]sychoanalysts have principally been concerned with the content of creative products, and with explaining content in terms of the artist's infantile past. They have paid less attention to examining why the artist chooses his particular activity to express, abreact or sublimate his emotions. In short, they have not made much distinction between art and neurosis; and, since the former is one of the blessings of mankind, whereas the latter is one of the curses, it seems a pity that they should not be better differentiated....

   Psychoanalysis, being fundamentally concerned with drive and motive, might have been expected to throw more light upon what impels the creative person that in fact it has. (Storr, 1993, pp. xvii, 3)

    14) Theories of Creative Thinking

   A number of theoretical approaches were considered. Associative theory, as developed by Mednick (1962), gained some empirical support from the apparent validity of the Remote Associates Test, which was constructed on the basis of the theory.... Koestler's (1964) bisociative theory allows more complexity to mental organization than Mednick's associative theory, and postulates "associative contexts" or "frames of reference." He proposed that normal, non-creative, thought proceeds within particular contexts or frames and that the creative act involves linking together previously unconnected frames.... Simonton (1988) has developed associative notions further and explored the mathematical consequences of chance permutation of ideas....

   Like Koestler, Gruber (1980; Gruber and Davis, 1988) has based his analysis on case studies. He has focused especially on Darwin's development of the theory of evolution. Using piagetian notions, such as assimilation and accommodation, Gruber shows how Darwin's system of ideas changed very slowly over a period of many years. "Moments of insight," in Gruber's analysis, were the culminations of slow long-term processes.... Finally, the information-processing approach, as represented by Simon (1966) and Langley et al. (1987), was considered.... [Simon] points out the importance of good problem representations, both to ensure search is in an appropriate problem space and to aid in developing heuristic evaluations of possible research directions.... The work of Langley et al. (1987) demonstrates how such search processes, realized in computer programs, can indeed discover many basic laws of science from tables of raw data.... Boden (1990a, 1994) has stressed the importance of restructuring the problem space in creative work to develop new genres and paradigms in the arts and sciences. (Gilhooly, 1996, pp. 243-244; emphasis in original)

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19 Artificial Intelligence

   1) Programs and the Complexity of Human Mental Processes

   In my opinion, none of [these programs] does even remote justice to the complexity of human mental processes. Unlike men, "artificially intelligent" programs tend to be single minded, undistractable, and unemotional. (Neisser, 1967, p. 9)

   2) Artificial Intelligence Is an Engineering Discipline

   Future progress in [artificial intelligence] will depend on the development of both practical and theoretical knowledge.... As regards theoretical knowledge, some have sought a unified theory of artificial intelligence. My view is that artificial intelligence is (or soon will be) an engineering discipline since its primary goal is to build things. (Nilsson, 1971, pp. vii-viii)

   3) A Sceptical View of Artificial Intelligence

   Most workers in AI [artificial intelligence] research and in related fields confess to a pronounced feeling of disappointment in what has been achieved in the last 25 years. Workers entered the field around 1950, and even around 1960, with high hopes that are very far from being realized in 1972. In no part of the field have the discoveries made so far produced the major impact that was then promised.... In the meantime, claims and predictions regarding the potential results of AI research had been publicized which went even farther than the expectations of the majority of workers in the field, whose embarrassments have been added to by the lamentable failure of such inﬂated predictions....

   When able and respected scientists write in letters to the present author that AI, the major goal of computing science, represents "another step in the general process of evolution"; that possibilities in the 1980s include an all-purpose intelligence on a human-scale knowledge base; that awe-inspiring possibilities suggest themselves based on machine intelligence exceeding human intelligence by the year 2000 [one has the right to be skeptical]. (Lighthill, 1972, p. 17)

   4) Just as Astronomy Succeeded Astrology, the Discovery of Intellectual Processes in Machines Should Lead to a Science, Eventually

   Just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations on intellectual processes in machines should lead to a science, eventually. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)

   5) Problems in Machine Intelligence Arise Because Things Obvious to Any Person Are Not Represented in the Program

   Many problems arise in experiments on machine intelligence because things obvious to any person are not represented in any program. One can pull with a string, but one cannot push with one.... Simple facts like these caused serious problems when Charniak attempted to extend Bobrow's "Student" program to more realistic applications, and they have not been faced up to until now. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 77)

   6) The Meaning of a Symbolic Description

   What do we mean by [a symbolic] "description"? We do not mean to suggest that our descriptions must be made of strings of ordinary language words (although they might be). The simplest kind of description is a structure in which some features of a situation are represented by single ("primitive") symbols, and relations between those features are represented by other symbols-or by other features of the way the description is put together. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)

   7) The Principle of Artificial Intelligence

   [AI is] the use of computer programs and programming techniques to cast light on the principles of intelligence in general and human thought in particular. (Boden, 1977, p. 5)

   8) Artificial Intelligence Recognizes the Need for Knowledge in Its Systems

   The word you look for and hardly ever see in the early AI literature is the word knowledge. They didn't believe you have to know anything, you could always rework it all.... In fact 1967 is the turning point in my mind when there was enough feeling that the old ideas of general principles had to go.... I came up with an argument for what I called the primacy of expertise, and at the time I called the other guys the generalists. (Moses, quoted in McCorduck, 1979, pp. 228-229)

   9) Artificial Intelligence Is Psychology in a Particularly Pure and Abstract Form

   The basic idea of cognitive science is that intelligent beings are semantic engines-in other words, automatic formal systems with interpretations under which they consistently make sense. We can now see why this includes psychology and artificial intelligence on a more or less equal footing: people and intelligent computers (if and when there are any) turn out to be merely different manifestations of the same underlying phenomenon. Moreover, with universal hardware, any semantic engine can in principle be formally imitated by a computer if only the right program can be found. And that will guarantee semantic imitation as well, since (given the appropriate formal behavior) the semantics is "taking care of itself" anyway. Thus we also see why, from this perspective, artificial intelligence can be regarded as psychology in a particularly pure and abstract form. The same fundamental structures are under investigation, but in AI, all the relevant parameters are under direct experimental control (in the programming), without any messy physiology or ethics to get in the way. (Haugeland, 1981b, p. 31)

    10) There Are Many Types of Reasoning

   There are many different kinds of reasoning one might imagine:

    Formal reasoning involves the syntactic manipulation of data structures to deduce new ones following prespecified rules of inference. Mathematical logic is the archetypical formal representation. Procedural reasoning uses simulation to answer questions and solve problems. When we use a program to answer What is the sum of 3 and 4? it uses, or "runs," a procedural model of arithmetic. Reasoning by analogy seems to be a very natural mode of thought for humans but, so far, difficult to accomplish in AI programs. The idea is that when you ask the question Can robins ﬂy? the system might reason that "robins are like sparrows, and I know that sparrows can ﬂy, so robins probably can ﬂy."

    Generalization and abstraction are also natural reasoning process for humans that are difficult to pin down well enough to implement in a program. If one knows that Robins have wings, that Sparrows have wings, and that Blue jays have wings, eventually one will believe that All birds have wings. This capability may be at the core of most human learning, but it has not yet become a useful technique in AI.... Meta- level reasoning is demonstrated by the way one answers the question What is Paul Newman's telephone number? You might reason that "if I knew Paul Newman's number, I would know that I knew it, because it is a notable fact." This involves using "knowledge about what you know," in particular, about the extent of your knowledge and about the importance of certain facts. Recent research in psychology and AI indicates that meta-level reasoning may play a central role in human cognitive processing. (Barr & Feigenbaum, 1981, pp. 146-147)

    11) Programs Are Beginning to Do Things That Critics Have Asserted to Be Impossible

   Suffice it to say that programs already exist that can do things-or, at the very least, appear to be beginning to do things-which ill-informed critics have asserted a priori to be impossible. Examples include: perceiving in a holistic as opposed to an atomistic way; using language creatively; translating sensibly from one language to another by way of a language-neutral semantic representation; planning acts in a broad and sketchy fashion, the details being decided only in execution; distinguishing between different species of emotional reaction according to the psychological context of the subject. (Boden, 1981, p. 33)

    12) The Synthesis of Man and Machine

   Can the synthesis of Man and Machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded? If this eventually happens-and I have... good reasons for thinking that it must-we have nothing to regret and certainly nothing to fear. (Clarke, 1984, p. 243)

    13) The Thesis of Good Old-Fashioned Artificial Intelligence (GOFAI)

   The thesis of GOFAI... is not that the processes underlying intelligence can be described symbolically... but that they are symbolic. (Haugeland, 1985, p. 113)

    14) Artificial Intelligence Provides a Useful Approach to Psychological and Psychiatric Theory Formation

   It is all very well formulating psychological and psychiatric theories verbally but, when using natural language (even technical jargon), it is difficult to recognise when a theory is complete; oversights are all too easily made, gaps too readily left. This is a point which is generally recognised to be true and it is for precisely this reason that the behavioural sciences attempt to follow the natural sciences in using "classical" mathematics as a more rigorous descriptive language. However, it is an unfortunate fact that, with a few notable exceptions, there has been a marked lack of success in this application. It is my belief that a different approach-a different mathematics-is needed, and that AI provides just this approach. (Hand, quoted in Hand, 1985, pp. 6-7)

    15) Four Kinds of Artificial Intelligence

   We might distinguish among four kinds of AI.

   ♦ Nonpsychological AI

   Research of this kind involves building and programming computers to perform tasks which, to paraphrase Marvin Minsky, would require intelligence if they were done by us. Researchers in nonpsychological AI make no claims whatsoever about the psychological realism of their programs or the devices they build, that is, about whether or not computers perform tasks as humans do.

   ♦ Weak Psychological AI

   Research here is guided by the view that the computer is a useful tool in the study of mind. In particular, we can write computer programs or build devices that simulate alleged psychological processes in humans and then test our predictions about how the alleged processes work. We can weave these programs and devices together with other programs and devices that simulate different alleged mental processes and thereby test the degree to which the AI system as a whole simulates human mentality. According to weak psychological AI, working with computer models is a way of refining and testing hypotheses about processes that are allegedly realized in human minds.

   ♦ Strong Psychological AI

... According to this view, our minds are computers and therefore can be duplicated by other computers. Sherry Turkle writes that the "real ambition is of mythic proportions, making a general purpose intelligence, a mind." (Turkle, 1984, p. 240) The authors of a major text announce that "the ultimate goal of AI research is to build a person or, more humbly, an animal." (Charniak & McDermott, 1985, p. 7)

   ♦ Suprapsychological AI

   Research in this field, like strong psychological AI, takes seriously the functionalist view that mentality can be realized in many different types of physical devices. Suprapsychological AI, however, accuses strong psychological AI of being chauvinisticof being only interested in human intelligence! Suprapsychological AI claims to be interested in all the conceivable ways intelligence can be realized. (Flanagan, 1991, pp. 241-242)

    16) Determination of Relevance of Rules in Particular Contexts

   Even if the [rules] were stored in a context-free form the computer still couldn't use them. To do that the computer requires rules enabling it to draw on just those [ rules] which are relevant in each particular context. Determination of relevance will have to be based on further facts and rules, but the question will again arise as to which facts and rules are relevant for making each particular determination. One could always invoke further facts and rules to answer this question, but of course these must be only the relevant ones. And so it goes. It seems that AI workers will never be able to get started here unless they can settle the problem of relevance beforehand by cataloguing types of context and listing just those facts which are relevant in each. (Dreyfus & Dreyfus, 1986, p. 80)

    17) Form and Content Are Not Fundamentally Different

   Perhaps the single most important idea to artificial intelligence is that there is no fundamental difference between form and content, that meaning can be captured in a set of symbols such as a semantic net. (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)

    18) The Assumption That the Mind Is a Formal System

   Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that stand for things in the world. Thus it doesn't matter what the brain is made of, or what it uses for tokens in the great game of thinking. Using an equivalent set of tokens and rules, we can do thinking with a digital computer, just as we can play chess using cups, salt and pepper shakers, knives, forks, and spoons. Using the right software, one system (the mind) can be mapped into the other (the computer). (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)

    19) A Statement of the Primary and Secondary Purposes of Artificial Intelligence

   The primary goal of Artificial Intelligence is to make machines smarter.

   The secondary goals of Artificial Intelligence are to understand what intelligence is (the Nobel laureate purpose) and to make machines more useful (the entrepreneurial purpose). (Winston, 1987, p. 1)

    20) Mathematical Logic Provides the Basis for Theory in AI

   The theoretical ideas of older branches of engineering are captured in the language of mathematics. We contend that mathematical logic provides the basis for theory in AI. Although many computer scientists already count logic as fundamental to computer science in general, we put forward an even stronger form of the logic-is-important argument....

   AI deals mainly with the problem of representing and using declarative (as opposed to procedural) knowledge. Declarative knowledge is the kind that is expressed as sentences, and AI needs a language in which to state these sentences. Because the languages in which this knowledge usually is originally captured (natural languages such as English) are not suitable for computer representations, some other language with the appropriate properties must be used. It turns out, we think, that the appropriate properties include at least those that have been uppermost in the minds of logicians in their development of logical languages such as the predicate calculus. Thus, we think that any language for expressing knowledge in AI systems must be at least as expressive as the first-order predicate calculus. (Genesereth & Nilsson, 1987, p. viii)

    21) Perceptual Structures Can Be Represented as Lists of Elementary Propositions

   In artificial intelligence studies, perceptual structures are represented as assemblages of description lists, the elementary components of which are propositions asserting that certain relations hold among elements. (Chase & Simon, 1988, p. 490)

    22) Definitions of Artificial Intelligence

   Artificial intelligence (AI) is sometimes defined as the study of how to build and/or program computers to enable them to do the sorts of things that minds can do. Some of these things are commonly regarded as requiring intelligence: offering a medical diagnosis and/or prescription, giving legal or scientific advice, proving theorems in logic or mathematics. Others are not, because they can be done by all normal adults irrespective of educational background (and sometimes by non-human animals too), and typically involve no conscious control: seeing things in sunlight and shadows, finding a path through cluttered terrain, fitting pegs into holes, speaking one's own native tongue, and using one's common sense. Because it covers AI research dealing with both these classes of mental capacity, this definition is preferable to one describing AI as making computers do "things that would require intelligence if done by people." However, it presupposes that computers could do what minds can do, that they might really diagnose, advise, infer, and understand. One could avoid this problematic assumption (and also side-step questions about whether computers do things in the same way as we do) by defining AI instead as "the development of computers whose observable performance has features which in humans we would attribute to mental processes." This bland characterization would be acceptable to some AI workers, especially amongst those focusing on the production of technological tools for commercial purposes. But many others would favour a more controversial definition, seeing AI as the science of intelligence in general-or, more accurately, as the intellectual core of cognitive science. As such, its goal is to provide a systematic theory that can explain (and perhaps enable us to replicate) both the general categories of intentionality and the diverse psychological capacities grounded in them. (Boden, 1990b, pp. 1-2)

    23) The Computer Can Not Be a Model of the Mind

   Because the ability to store data somewhat corresponds to what we call memory in human beings, and because the ability to follow logical procedures somewhat corresponds to what we call reasoning in human beings, many members of the cult have concluded that what computers do somewhat corresponds to what we call thinking. It is no great difficulty to persuade the general public of that conclusion since computers process data very fast in small spaces well below the level of visibility; they do not look like other machines when they are at work. They seem to be running along as smoothly and silently as the brain does when it remembers and reasons and thinks. On the other hand, those who design and build computers know exactly how the machines are working down in the hidden depths of their semiconductors. Computers can be taken apart, scrutinized, and put back together. Their activities can be tracked, analyzed, measured, and thus clearly understood-which is far from possible with the brain. This gives rise to the tempting assumption on the part of the builders and designers that computers can tell us something about brains, indeed, that the computer can serve as a model of the mind, which then comes to be seen as some manner of information processing machine, and possibly not as good at the job as the machine. (Roszak, 1994, pp. xiv-xv)

    24) Computers Will Not Always Be Inferior to Human Brains

   The inner workings of the human mind are far more intricate than the most complicated systems of modern technology. Researchers in the field of artificial intelligence have been attempting to develop programs that will enable computers to display intelligent behavior. Although this field has been an active one for more than thirty-five years and has had many notable successes, AI researchers still do not know how to create a program that matches human intelligence. No existing program can recall facts, solve problems, reason, learn, and process language with human facility. This lack of success has occurred not because computers are inferior to human brains but rather because we do not yet know in sufficient detail how intelligence is organized in the brain. (Anderson, 1995, p. 2)

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20 Philosophy

   1) There Are Ideas That Have Their Own True and Immutable Nature

   And what I believe to be more important here is that I find in myself an infinity of ideas of certain things which cannot be assumed to be pure nothingness, even though they may have perhaps no existence outside of my thought. These things are not figments of my imagination, even though it is within my power to think of them or not to think of them; on the contrary, they have their own true and immutable natures. Thus, for example, when I imagine a triangle, even though there may perhaps be no such figure anywhere in the world outside of my thought, nor ever have been, nevertheless the figure cannot help having a certain determinate nature... or essence, which is immutable and eternal, which I have not invented and which does not in any way depend upon my mind. (Descartes, 1951, p. 61)

   2) Examine What Is within Our Reach

   Let us console ourselves for not knowing the possible connections between a spider and the rings of Saturn, and continue to examine what is within our reach. (Voltaire, 1961, p. 144)

   3) Modern Philosophy Starts with the Cartesian Catastrophe

   As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe consisted in the splitting up of the world into the realms of matter and mind, and the identification of "mind" with conscious thinking. The result of this identification was the shallow rationalism of l'esprit Cartesien, and an impoverishment of psychology which it took three centuries to remedy even in part. (Koestler, 1964, p. 148)

   4) The Rightful Claims of Philosophy

   It has been made of late a reproach against natural philosophy that it has struck out on a path of its own, and has separated itself more and more widely from the other sciences which are united by common philological and historical studies. The opposition has, in fact, been long apparent, and seems to me to have grown up mainly under the inﬂuence of the Hegelian philosophy, or, at any rate, to have been brought out into more distinct relief by that philosophy.... The sole object of Kant's "Critical Philosophy" was to test the sources and the authority of our knowledge, and to fix a definite scope and standard for the researches of philosophy, as compared with other sciences.... [But Hegel's] "Philosophy of Identity" was bolder. It started with the hypothesis that not only spiritual phenomena, but even the actual world-nature, that is, and man-were the result of an act of thought on the part of a creative mind, similar, it was supposed, in kind to the human mind.... The philosophers accused the scientific men of narrowness; the scientific men retorted that the philosophers were crazy. And so it came about that men of science began to lay some stress on the banishment of all philosophic inﬂuences from their work; while some of them, including men of the greatest acuteness, went so far as to condemn philosophy altogether, not merely as useless, but as mischievous dreaming. Thus, it must be confessed, not only were the illegitimate pretensions of the Hegelian system to subordinate to itself all other studies rejected, but no regard was paid to the rightful claims of philosophy, that is, the criticism of the sources of cognition, and the definition of the functions of the intellect. (Helmholz, quoted in Dampier, 1966, pp. 291-292)

   5) The Philosophy of Philosophy

   Philosophy remains true to its classical tradition by renouncing it. (Habermas, 1972, p. 317)

   6) Philosophy Is a Field Which Has Certain Central Questions

   I have not attempted... to put forward any grand view of the nature of philosophy; nor do I have any such grand view to put forth if I would. It will be obvious that I do not agree with those who see philosophy as the history of "howlers" and progress in philosophy as the debunking of howlers. It will also be obvious that I do not agree with those who see philosophy as the enterprise of putting forward a priori truths about the world.... I see philosophy as a field which has certain central questions, for example, the relation between thought and reality.... It seems obvious that in dealing with these questions philosophers have formulated rival research programs, that they have put forward general hypotheses, and that philosophers within each major research program have modified their hypotheses by trial and error, even if they sometimes refuse to admit that that is what they are doing. To that extent philosophy is a "science." To argue about whether philosophy is a science in any more serious sense seems to me to be hardly a useful occupation.... It does not seem to me important to decide whether science is philosophy or philosophy is science as long as one has a conception of both that makes both essential to a responsible view of the world and of man's place in it. (Putnam, 1975, p. xvii)

   7) The Central Task of Philosophy

   What can philosophy contribute to solving the problem of the relation [of] mind to body? Twenty years ago, many English-speaking philosophers would have answered: "Nothing beyond an analysis of the various mental concepts." If we seek knowledge of things, they thought, it is to science that we must turn. Philosophy can only cast light upon our concepts of those things.

   This retreat from things to concepts was not undertaken lightly. Ever since the seventeenth century, the great intellectual fact of our culture has been the incredible expansion of knowledge both in the natural and in the rational sciences (mathematics, logic).

   The success of science created a crisis in philosophy. What was there for philosophy to do? Hume had already perceived the problem in some degree, and so surely did Kant, but it was not until the twentieth century, with the Vienna Circle and with Wittgenstein, that the difficulty began to weigh heavily. Wittgenstein took the view that philosophy could do no more than strive to undo the intellectual knots it itself had tied, so achieving intellectual release, and even a certain illumination, but no knowledge. A little later, and more optimistically, Ryle saw a positive, if reduced role, for philosophy in mapping the "logical geography" of our concepts: how they stood to each other and how they were to be analyzed....

   Since that time, however, philosophers in the "analytic" tradition have swung back from Wittgensteinian and even Rylean pessimism to a more traditional conception of the proper role and tasks of philosophy. Many analytic philosophers now would accept the view that the central task of philosophy is to give an account, or at least play a part in giving an account, of the most general nature of things and of man. (Armstrong, 1990, pp. 37-38)

   8) Philosophy's Evolving Engagement with Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science

   In the beginning, the nature of philosophy's engagement with artificial intelligence and cognitive science was clear enough. The new sciences of the mind were to provide the long-awaited vindication of the most potent dreams of naturalism and materialism. Mind would at last be located firmly within the natural order. We would see in detail how the most perplexing features of the mental realm could be supported by the operations of solely physical laws upon solely physical stuff. Mental causation (the power of, e.g., a belief to cause an action) would emerge as just another species of physical causation. Reasoning would be understood as a kind of automated theorem proving. And the key to both was to be the depiction of the brain as the implementation of multiple higher level programs whose task was to manipulate and transform symbols or representations: inner items with one foot in the physical (they were realized as brain states) and one in the mental (they were bearers of contents, and their physical gymnastics were cleverly designed to respect semantic relationships such as truth preservation). (A. Clark, 1996, p. 1)

   9) The Enduring Value of Philosophy

   Socrates of Athens famously declared that "the unexamined life is not worth living," and his motto aptly explains the impulse to philosophize. Taking nothing for granted, philosophy probes and questions the fundamental presuppositions of every area of human inquiry.... [P]art of the job of the philosopher is to keep at a certain critical distance from current doctrines, whether in the sciences or the arts, and to examine instead how the various elements in our world-view clash, or fit together. Some philosophers have tried to incorporate the results of these inquiries into a grand synoptic view of the nature of reality and our human relationship to it. Others have mistrusted system-building, and seen their primary role as one of clarifications, or the removal of obstacles along the road to truth. But all have shared the Socratic vision of using the human intellect to challenge comfortable preconceptions, insisting that every aspect of human theory and practice be subjected to continuing critical scrutiny....

   Philosophy is, of course, part of a continuing tradition, and there is much to be gained from seeing how that tradition originated and developed. But the principal object of studying the materials in this book is not to pay homage to past genius, but to enrich one's understanding of central problems that are as pressing today as they have always been-problems about knowledge, truth and reality, the nature of the mind, the basis of right action, and the best way to live. These questions help to mark out the territory of philosophy as an academic discipline, but in a wider sense they define the human predicament itself; they will surely continue to be with us for as long as humanity endures. (Cottingham, 1996, pp. xxi-xxii)

    10) The Distinction between Dionysian Man and Apollonian Man, between Art and Creativity and Reason and Self- Control

   In his study of ancient Greek culture, The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche drew what would become a famous distinction, between the Dionysian spirit, the untamed spirit of art and creativity, and the Apollonian, that of reason and self-control. The story of Greek civilization, and all civilizations, Nietzsche implied, was the gradual victory of Apollonian man, with his desire for control over nature and himself, over Dionysian man, who survives only in myth, poetry, music, and drama. Socrates and Plato had attacked the illusions of art as unreal, and had overturned the delicate cultural balance by valuing only man's critical, rational, and controlling consciousness while denigrating his vital life instincts as irrational and base. The result of this division is "Alexandrian man," the civilized and accomplished Greek citizen of the later ancient world, who is "equipped with the greatest forces of knowledge" but in whom the wellsprings of creativity have dried up. (Herman, 1997, pp. 95-96)

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