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21 philosophy
[fi'losəfi]plural - philosophies; noun1) (the search for knowledge and truth, especially about the nature of man and his behaviour and beliefs: moral philosophy.) filosofi2) (a particular system of philosophical theories: I have a very simple philosophy (=attitude to life) - enjoy life!) filosofi; livssyn•- philosophical
- philosophic
- philosophically
- philosophize
- philosophise* * *[fi'losəfi]plural - philosophies; noun1) (the search for knowledge and truth, especially about the nature of man and his behaviour and beliefs: moral philosophy.) filosofi2) (a particular system of philosophical theories: I have a very simple philosophy (=attitude to life) - enjoy life!) filosofi; livssyn•- philosophical
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22 Thinking
But what then am I? A thing which thinks. What is a thing which thinks? It is a thing which doubts, understands, [conceives], affirms, denies, wills, refuses, which also imagines and feels. (Descartes, 1951, p. 153)I have been trying in all this to remove the temptation to think that there "must be" a mental process of thinking, hoping, wishing, believing, etc., independent of the process of expressing a thought, a hope, a wish, etc.... If we scrutinize the usages which we make of "thinking," "meaning," "wishing," etc., going through this process rids us of the temptation to look for a peculiar act of thinking, independent of the act of expressing our thoughts, and stowed away in some particular medium. (Wittgenstein, 1958, pp. 41-43)Analyse the proofs employed by the subject. If they do not go beyond observation of empirical correspondences, they can be fully explained in terms of concrete operations, and nothing would warrant our assuming that more complex thought mechanisms are operating. If, on the other hand, the subject interprets a given correspondence as the result of any one of several possible combinations, and this leads him to verify his hypotheses by observing their consequences, we know that propositional operations are involved. (Inhelder & Piaget, 1958, p. 279)In every age, philosophical thinking exploits some dominant concepts and makes its greatest headway in solving problems conceived in terms of them. The seventeenth- and eighteenth-century philosophers construed knowledge, knower, and known in terms of sense data and their association. Descartes' self-examination gave classical psychology the mind and its contents as a starting point. Locke set up sensory immediacy as the new criterion of the real... Hobbes provided the genetic method of building up complex ideas from simple ones... and, in another quarter, still true to the Hobbesian method, Pavlov built intellect out of conditioned reflexes and Loeb built life out of tropisms. (S. Langer, 1962, p. 54)Experiments on deductive reasoning show that subjects are influenced sufficiently by their experience for their reasoning to differ from that described by a purely deductive system, whilst experiments on inductive reasoning lead to the view that an understanding of the strategies used by adult subjects in attaining concepts involves reference to higher-order concepts of a logical and deductive nature. (Bolton, 1972, p. 154)There are now machines in the world that think, that learn and create. Moreover, their ability to do these things is going to increase rapidly until-in the visible future-the range of problems they can handle will be coextensive with the range to which the human mind has been applied. (Newell & Simon, quoted in Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 138)But how does it happen that thinking is sometimes accompanied by action and sometimes not, sometimes by motion, and sometimes not? It looks as if almost the same thing happens as in the case of reasoning and making inferences about unchanging objects. But in that case the end is a speculative proposition... whereas here the conclusion which results from the two premises is an action.... I need covering; a cloak is a covering. I need a cloak. What I need, I have to make; I need a cloak. I have to make a cloak. And the conclusion, the "I have to make a cloak," is an action. (Nussbaum, 1978, p. 40)It is well to remember that when philosophy emerged in Greece in the sixth century, B.C., it did not burst suddenly out of the Mediterranean blue. The development of societies of reasoning creatures-what we call civilization-had been a process to be measured not in thousands but in millions of years. Human beings became civilized as they became reasonable, and for an animal to begin to reason and to learn how to improve its reasoning is a long, slow process. So thinking had been going on for ages before Greece-slowly improving itself, uncovering the pitfalls to be avoided by forethought, endeavoring to weigh alternative sets of consequences intellectually. What happened in the sixth century, B.C., is that thinking turned round on itself; people began to think about thinking, and the momentous event, the culmination of the long process to that point, was in fact the birth of philosophy. (Lipman, Sharp & Oscanyan, 1980, p. xi)The way to look at thought is not to assume that there is a parallel thread of correlated affects or internal experiences that go with it in some regular way. It's not of course that people don't have internal experiences, of course they do; but that when you ask what is the state of mind of someone, say while he or she is performing a ritual, it's hard to believe that such experiences are the same for all people involved.... The thinking, and indeed the feeling in an odd sort of way, is really going on in public. They are really saying what they're saying, doing what they're doing, meaning what they're meaning. Thought is, in great part anyway, a public activity. (Geertz, quoted in J. Miller, 1983, pp. 202-203)Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. (Einstein, quoted in Minsky, 1986, p. 17)What, in effect, are the conditions for the construction of formal thought? The child must not only apply operations to objects-in other words, mentally execute possible actions on them-he must also "reflect" those operations in the absence of the objects which are replaced by pure propositions. Thus, "reflection" is thought raised to the second power. Concrete thinking is the representation of a possible action, and formal thinking is the representation of a representation of possible action.... It is not surprising, therefore, that the system of concrete operations must be completed during the last years of childhood before it can be "reflected" by formal operations. In terms of their function, formal operations do not differ from concrete operations except that they are applied to hypotheses or propositions [whose logic is] an abstract translation of the system of "inference" that governs concrete operations. (Piaget, quoted in Minsky, 1986, p. 237)[E]ven a human being today (hence, a fortiori, a remote ancestor of contemporary human beings) cannot easily or ordinarily maintain uninterrupted attention on a single problem for more than a few tens of seconds. Yet we work on problems that require vastly more time. The way we do that (as we can observe by watching ourselves) requires periods of mulling to be followed by periods of recapitulation, describing to ourselves what seems to have gone on during the mulling, leading to whatever intermediate results we have reached. This has an obvious function: namely, by rehearsing these interim results... we commit them to memory, for the immediate contents of the stream of consciousness are very quickly lost unless rehearsed.... Given language, we can describe to ourselves what seemed to occur during the mulling that led to a judgment, produce a rehearsable version of the reaching-a-judgment process, and commit that to long-term memory by in fact rehearsing it. (Margolis, 1987, p. 60)Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Thinking
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23 APS
1) Компьютерная техника: Active Pixel Sensor, Active Pixel Sensors, Advanced Production System, All Processes Suspended, Application Print Services, Application Protection System, adaptive polarization shaping, Advances Planning and Scheduling, система оптимизационного планирования производства2) Биология: adenosine-5'-phosphosulfate3) Авиация: рейтинг контроля подхода по средствам наблюдения4) Морской термин: (Arrival Pilot Station) Пункт (порт) начала лоцманской проводки5) Медицина: autoimmune polyglandular syndrome, antiphospholipid antibody syndrome, антитромбоцитарная иммунная сыворотка6) Спорт: Air Precision Shooting7) Военный термин: ASARS Processing Segment, ASARS-II Processing Segment, Advanced Power System, Afloat Pre-positioning Ship, Air Pictorial Service, Air Planning System, Allied publications, Army Pictorial Service, Army Pilot School, Army Postal Service, Automatic Point And Shoot, Automatic Provisioning System, accessory power supply, active protection system, actual parade state, advanced personnel system, aerial port squadron, airborne pulse search, antenna pointing subsystem, armor-piercing shell, assistant private secretary, automatic programming system, auxiliary power supply, auxiliary propulsion system8) Техника: American Physic Society, accident-prone situation, acoustical protection system, adaptive processor sonar, aft propulsion system, air breathing propulsion system, airborne pulse search radar, ammonium polysulfide, amplifier power supply, angular position sensor, arc-plasma spraying, automatic positioning system, automatic protection switch9) Химия: аммония персульфат (Ammonium PerSulphate), полисульфид аммония (ammonium polysulfide)10) Юридический термин: Adult Protective Services, Attending Physicians Statements11) Автомобильный термин: absolute pressure sensor (GM), atmospheric pressure sensor (Mazda), Acoustic Parking System12) Ветеринария: American Physiological Society13) Оптика: advanced photon source14) Телевидение: automatic program search15) Телекоммуникации: Affordable Portable Services, Automatic Protection Switching (SONET)16) Сокращение: Academy of Political Science, Adaptive Processor System (sonar), Address Program Support Office (Office of Operations Support), Adjustment Processing System, Advanced Fighter Crew Protection System, Advanced Planning System, Advanced Planning and Scheduling, Advanced Propulsion System, Aerial Post Squadron (USAF), Afloat Planning System (USA), Afloat Planning System, Aiming & Pointing System, Aiming and Pointing System (USMC), Aircraft Position Sensor, Aircraft Prepared for Service, American Peace Society, American Peat Society, American Pediatric Society, American Philatelic Society, American Philosophical Society, American Physical Society, American Protestant Society, Artillery Pointing System, Associate of the Pharmaceutical Society, Atomic Power Station, Automatic Pointing System, Auxiliary Power System, Anti-Phospholipid Syndrome, advanced planning/scheduling17) Университет: Academic Program Summary, Applied Problem Solving18) Физиология: Absolutely Precious Skin, Active Positive Symbiosis19) Электроника: Advanced Power Stability, Analog Protection System, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Antennas and Propagation Society20) Вычислительная техника: Application Page Server, Automated Patent System, Automatic Protection Switching, attached processor system, Application Service Provider (WAN), автоматизированная патентная система21) Нефть: abandon platform shutdown22) Иммунология: Advance Photo System23) Банковское дело: средняя доля сбережений в доходе (average propensity to save)24) Транспорт: Active Point System, Airway Planning Standard, Asset Positioning System, Auto Pilot System25) Фирменный знак: Academic Publishing Service, Amateur Pageantry Systems26) Экология: accelerated photosynthetic system27) Реклама: Общество Артура Пейджа28) СМИ: Advanced Photo System, All Programs And Sounds29) Деловая лексика: Administration Planning And Statistics, Advanced Planning Systems, Analytical Planning Scheduling, Approved Program Sequence, Automated Planning And Scheduling, Automated Process Scheduler30) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: abandon platform shutdown (Orlan platform)31) Образование: Ability Point Skill32) Инвестиции: average propensity to save33) Сетевые технологии: Aol Password Stealer, Application Provider Services, Asynchronous Port Switch, Asynchronous Protocol Specification, спецификация асинхронного протокола34) Полимеры: American Petroleum Society, average particle size( фракционный состав)35) Общая лексика: auto priming system36) Химическое оружие: Army Planning System37) Безопасность: auto polarity switching38) Расширение файла: Advanced Printing Service (IBM)39) Нефть и газ: Индукционный зонд, Надтепловой каротаж, Accelerated Porosity Sonde40) Электротехника: Arizona Public Service Company (название компании)41) Нанотехнологии: воздушно-плазменное напыление, air plasma spray, air plasma spraying42) Общественная организация: Association For Practical Shooting43) Должность: Agricultural Production Specialist45) Программное обеспечение: Agenda Productivity Suite -
24 APs
1) Компьютерная техника: Active Pixel Sensor, Active Pixel Sensors, Advanced Production System, All Processes Suspended, Application Print Services, Application Protection System, adaptive polarization shaping, Advances Planning and Scheduling, система оптимизационного планирования производства2) Биология: adenosine-5'-phosphosulfate3) Авиация: рейтинг контроля подхода по средствам наблюдения4) Морской термин: (Arrival Pilot Station) Пункт (порт) начала лоцманской проводки5) Медицина: autoimmune polyglandular syndrome, antiphospholipid antibody syndrome, антитромбоцитарная иммунная сыворотка6) Спорт: Air Precision Shooting7) Военный термин: ASARS Processing Segment, ASARS-II Processing Segment, Advanced Power System, Afloat Pre-positioning Ship, Air Pictorial Service, Air Planning System, Allied publications, Army Pictorial Service, Army Pilot School, Army Postal Service, Automatic Point And Shoot, Automatic Provisioning System, accessory power supply, active protection system, actual parade state, advanced personnel system, aerial port squadron, airborne pulse search, antenna pointing subsystem, armor-piercing shell, assistant private secretary, automatic programming system, auxiliary power supply, auxiliary propulsion system8) Техника: American Physic Society, accident-prone situation, acoustical protection system, adaptive processor sonar, aft propulsion system, air breathing propulsion system, airborne pulse search radar, ammonium polysulfide, amplifier power supply, angular position sensor, arc-plasma spraying, automatic positioning system, automatic protection switch9) Химия: аммония персульфат (Ammonium PerSulphate), полисульфид аммония (ammonium polysulfide)10) Юридический термин: Adult Protective Services, Attending Physicians Statements11) Автомобильный термин: absolute pressure sensor (GM), atmospheric pressure sensor (Mazda), Acoustic Parking System12) Ветеринария: American Physiological Society13) Оптика: advanced photon source14) Телевидение: automatic program search15) Телекоммуникации: Affordable Portable Services, Automatic Protection Switching (SONET)16) Сокращение: Academy of Political Science, Adaptive Processor System (sonar), Address Program Support Office (Office of Operations Support), Adjustment Processing System, Advanced Fighter Crew Protection System, Advanced Planning System, Advanced Planning and Scheduling, Advanced Propulsion System, Aerial Post Squadron (USAF), Afloat Planning System (USA), Afloat Planning System, Aiming & Pointing System, Aiming and Pointing System (USMC), Aircraft Position Sensor, Aircraft Prepared for Service, American Peace Society, American Peat Society, American Pediatric Society, American Philatelic Society, American Philosophical Society, American Physical Society, American Protestant Society, Artillery Pointing System, Associate of the Pharmaceutical Society, Atomic Power Station, Automatic Pointing System, Auxiliary Power System, Anti-Phospholipid Syndrome, advanced planning/scheduling17) Университет: Academic Program Summary, Applied Problem Solving18) Физиология: Absolutely Precious Skin, Active Positive Symbiosis19) Электроника: Advanced Power Stability, Analog Protection System, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Antennas and Propagation Society20) Вычислительная техника: Application Page Server, Automated Patent System, Automatic Protection Switching, attached processor system, Application Service Provider (WAN), автоматизированная патентная система21) Нефть: abandon platform shutdown22) Иммунология: Advance Photo System23) Банковское дело: средняя доля сбережений в доходе (average propensity to save)24) Транспорт: Active Point System, Airway Planning Standard, Asset Positioning System, Auto Pilot System25) Фирменный знак: Academic Publishing Service, Amateur Pageantry Systems26) Экология: accelerated photosynthetic system27) Реклама: Общество Артура Пейджа28) СМИ: Advanced Photo System, All Programs And Sounds29) Деловая лексика: Administration Planning And Statistics, Advanced Planning Systems, Analytical Planning Scheduling, Approved Program Sequence, Automated Planning And Scheduling, Automated Process Scheduler30) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: abandon platform shutdown (Orlan platform)31) Образование: Ability Point Skill32) Инвестиции: average propensity to save33) Сетевые технологии: Aol Password Stealer, Application Provider Services, Asynchronous Port Switch, Asynchronous Protocol Specification, спецификация асинхронного протокола34) Полимеры: American Petroleum Society, average particle size( фракционный состав)35) Общая лексика: auto priming system36) Химическое оружие: Army Planning System37) Безопасность: auto polarity switching38) Расширение файла: Advanced Printing Service (IBM)39) Нефть и газ: Индукционный зонд, Надтепловой каротаж, Accelerated Porosity Sonde40) Электротехника: Arizona Public Service Company (название компании)41) Нанотехнологии: воздушно-плазменное напыление, air plasma spray, air plasma spraying42) Общественная организация: Association For Practical Shooting43) Должность: Agricultural Production Specialist45) Программное обеспечение: Agenda Productivity Suite -
25 ApS
1) Компьютерная техника: Active Pixel Sensor, Active Pixel Sensors, Advanced Production System, All Processes Suspended, Application Print Services, Application Protection System, adaptive polarization shaping, Advances Planning and Scheduling, система оптимизационного планирования производства2) Биология: adenosine-5'-phosphosulfate3) Авиация: рейтинг контроля подхода по средствам наблюдения4) Морской термин: (Arrival Pilot Station) Пункт (порт) начала лоцманской проводки5) Медицина: autoimmune polyglandular syndrome, antiphospholipid antibody syndrome, антитромбоцитарная иммунная сыворотка6) Спорт: Air Precision Shooting7) Военный термин: ASARS Processing Segment, ASARS-II Processing Segment, Advanced Power System, Afloat Pre-positioning Ship, Air Pictorial Service, Air Planning System, Allied publications, Army Pictorial Service, Army Pilot School, Army Postal Service, Automatic Point And Shoot, Automatic Provisioning System, accessory power supply, active protection system, actual parade state, advanced personnel system, aerial port squadron, airborne pulse search, antenna pointing subsystem, armor-piercing shell, assistant private secretary, automatic programming system, auxiliary power supply, auxiliary propulsion system8) Техника: American Physic Society, accident-prone situation, acoustical protection system, adaptive processor sonar, aft propulsion system, air breathing propulsion system, airborne pulse search radar, ammonium polysulfide, amplifier power supply, angular position sensor, arc-plasma spraying, automatic positioning system, automatic protection switch9) Химия: аммония персульфат (Ammonium PerSulphate), полисульфид аммония (ammonium polysulfide)10) Юридический термин: Adult Protective Services, Attending Physicians Statements11) Автомобильный термин: absolute pressure sensor (GM), atmospheric pressure sensor (Mazda), Acoustic Parking System12) Ветеринария: American Physiological Society13) Оптика: advanced photon source14) Телевидение: automatic program search15) Телекоммуникации: Affordable Portable Services, Automatic Protection Switching (SONET)16) Сокращение: Academy of Political Science, Adaptive Processor System (sonar), Address Program Support Office (Office of Operations Support), Adjustment Processing System, Advanced Fighter Crew Protection System, Advanced Planning System, Advanced Planning and Scheduling, Advanced Propulsion System, Aerial Post Squadron (USAF), Afloat Planning System (USA), Afloat Planning System, Aiming & Pointing System, Aiming and Pointing System (USMC), Aircraft Position Sensor, Aircraft Prepared for Service, American Peace Society, American Peat Society, American Pediatric Society, American Philatelic Society, American Philosophical Society, American Physical Society, American Protestant Society, Artillery Pointing System, Associate of the Pharmaceutical Society, Atomic Power Station, Automatic Pointing System, Auxiliary Power System, Anti-Phospholipid Syndrome, advanced planning/scheduling17) Университет: Academic Program Summary, Applied Problem Solving18) Физиология: Absolutely Precious Skin, Active Positive Symbiosis19) Электроника: Advanced Power Stability, Analog Protection System, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Antennas and Propagation Society20) Вычислительная техника: Application Page Server, Automated Patent System, Automatic Protection Switching, attached processor system, Application Service Provider (WAN), автоматизированная патентная система21) Нефть: abandon platform shutdown22) Иммунология: Advance Photo System23) Банковское дело: средняя доля сбережений в доходе (average propensity to save)24) Транспорт: Active Point System, Airway Planning Standard, Asset Positioning System, Auto Pilot System25) Фирменный знак: Academic Publishing Service, Amateur Pageantry Systems26) Экология: accelerated photosynthetic system27) Реклама: Общество Артура Пейджа28) СМИ: Advanced Photo System, All Programs And Sounds29) Деловая лексика: Administration Planning And Statistics, Advanced Planning Systems, Analytical Planning Scheduling, Approved Program Sequence, Automated Planning And Scheduling, Automated Process Scheduler30) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: abandon platform shutdown (Orlan platform)31) Образование: Ability Point Skill32) Инвестиции: average propensity to save33) Сетевые технологии: Aol Password Stealer, Application Provider Services, Asynchronous Port Switch, Asynchronous Protocol Specification, спецификация асинхронного протокола34) Полимеры: American Petroleum Society, average particle size( фракционный состав)35) Общая лексика: auto priming system36) Химическое оружие: Army Planning System37) Безопасность: auto polarity switching38) Расширение файла: Advanced Printing Service (IBM)39) Нефть и газ: Индукционный зонд, Надтепловой каротаж, Accelerated Porosity Sonde40) Электротехника: Arizona Public Service Company (название компании)41) Нанотехнологии: воздушно-плазменное напыление, air plasma spray, air plasma spraying42) Общественная организация: Association For Practical Shooting43) Должность: Agricultural Production Specialist45) Программное обеспечение: Agenda Productivity Suite -
26 Aps
1) Компьютерная техника: Active Pixel Sensor, Active Pixel Sensors, Advanced Production System, All Processes Suspended, Application Print Services, Application Protection System, adaptive polarization shaping, Advances Planning and Scheduling, система оптимизационного планирования производства2) Биология: adenosine-5'-phosphosulfate3) Авиация: рейтинг контроля подхода по средствам наблюдения4) Морской термин: (Arrival Pilot Station) Пункт (порт) начала лоцманской проводки5) Медицина: autoimmune polyglandular syndrome, antiphospholipid antibody syndrome, антитромбоцитарная иммунная сыворотка6) Спорт: Air Precision Shooting7) Военный термин: ASARS Processing Segment, ASARS-II Processing Segment, Advanced Power System, Afloat Pre-positioning Ship, Air Pictorial Service, Air Planning System, Allied publications, Army Pictorial Service, Army Pilot School, Army Postal Service, Automatic Point And Shoot, Automatic Provisioning System, accessory power supply, active protection system, actual parade state, advanced personnel system, aerial port squadron, airborne pulse search, antenna pointing subsystem, armor-piercing shell, assistant private secretary, automatic programming system, auxiliary power supply, auxiliary propulsion system8) Техника: American Physic Society, accident-prone situation, acoustical protection system, adaptive processor sonar, aft propulsion system, air breathing propulsion system, airborne pulse search radar, ammonium polysulfide, amplifier power supply, angular position sensor, arc-plasma spraying, automatic positioning system, automatic protection switch9) Химия: аммония персульфат (Ammonium PerSulphate), полисульфид аммония (ammonium polysulfide)10) Юридический термин: Adult Protective Services, Attending Physicians Statements11) Автомобильный термин: absolute pressure sensor (GM), atmospheric pressure sensor (Mazda), Acoustic Parking System12) Ветеринария: American Physiological Society13) Оптика: advanced photon source14) Телевидение: automatic program search15) Телекоммуникации: Affordable Portable Services, Automatic Protection Switching (SONET)16) Сокращение: Academy of Political Science, Adaptive Processor System (sonar), Address Program Support Office (Office of Operations Support), Adjustment Processing System, Advanced Fighter Crew Protection System, Advanced Planning System, Advanced Planning and Scheduling, Advanced Propulsion System, Aerial Post Squadron (USAF), Afloat Planning System (USA), Afloat Planning System, Aiming & Pointing System, Aiming and Pointing System (USMC), Aircraft Position Sensor, Aircraft Prepared for Service, American Peace Society, American Peat Society, American Pediatric Society, American Philatelic Society, American Philosophical Society, American Physical Society, American Protestant Society, Artillery Pointing System, Associate of the Pharmaceutical Society, Atomic Power Station, Automatic Pointing System, Auxiliary Power System, Anti-Phospholipid Syndrome, advanced planning/scheduling17) Университет: Academic Program Summary, Applied Problem Solving18) Физиология: Absolutely Precious Skin, Active Positive Symbiosis19) Электроника: Advanced Power Stability, Analog Protection System, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Antennas and Propagation Society20) Вычислительная техника: Application Page Server, Automated Patent System, Automatic Protection Switching, attached processor system, Application Service Provider (WAN), автоматизированная патентная система21) Нефть: abandon platform shutdown22) Иммунология: Advance Photo System23) Банковское дело: средняя доля сбережений в доходе (average propensity to save)24) Транспорт: Active Point System, Airway Planning Standard, Asset Positioning System, Auto Pilot System25) Фирменный знак: Academic Publishing Service, Amateur Pageantry Systems26) Экология: accelerated photosynthetic system27) Реклама: Общество Артура Пейджа28) СМИ: Advanced Photo System, All Programs And Sounds29) Деловая лексика: Administration Planning And Statistics, Advanced Planning Systems, Analytical Planning Scheduling, Approved Program Sequence, Automated Planning And Scheduling, Automated Process Scheduler30) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: abandon platform shutdown (Orlan platform)31) Образование: Ability Point Skill32) Инвестиции: average propensity to save33) Сетевые технологии: Aol Password Stealer, Application Provider Services, Asynchronous Port Switch, Asynchronous Protocol Specification, спецификация асинхронного протокола34) Полимеры: American Petroleum Society, average particle size( фракционный состав)35) Общая лексика: auto priming system36) Химическое оружие: Army Planning System37) Безопасность: auto polarity switching38) Расширение файла: Advanced Printing Service (IBM)39) Нефть и газ: Индукционный зонд, Надтепловой каротаж, Accelerated Porosity Sonde40) Электротехника: Arizona Public Service Company (название компании)41) Нанотехнологии: воздушно-плазменное напыление, air plasma spray, air plasma spraying42) Общественная организация: Association For Practical Shooting43) Должность: Agricultural Production Specialist45) Программное обеспечение: Agenda Productivity Suite -
27 aps
1) Компьютерная техника: Active Pixel Sensor, Active Pixel Sensors, Advanced Production System, All Processes Suspended, Application Print Services, Application Protection System, adaptive polarization shaping, Advances Planning and Scheduling, система оптимизационного планирования производства2) Биология: adenosine-5'-phosphosulfate3) Авиация: рейтинг контроля подхода по средствам наблюдения4) Морской термин: (Arrival Pilot Station) Пункт (порт) начала лоцманской проводки5) Медицина: autoimmune polyglandular syndrome, antiphospholipid antibody syndrome, антитромбоцитарная иммунная сыворотка6) Спорт: Air Precision Shooting7) Военный термин: ASARS Processing Segment, ASARS-II Processing Segment, Advanced Power System, Afloat Pre-positioning Ship, Air Pictorial Service, Air Planning System, Allied publications, Army Pictorial Service, Army Pilot School, Army Postal Service, Automatic Point And Shoot, Automatic Provisioning System, accessory power supply, active protection system, actual parade state, advanced personnel system, aerial port squadron, airborne pulse search, antenna pointing subsystem, armor-piercing shell, assistant private secretary, automatic programming system, auxiliary power supply, auxiliary propulsion system8) Техника: American Physic Society, accident-prone situation, acoustical protection system, adaptive processor sonar, aft propulsion system, air breathing propulsion system, airborne pulse search radar, ammonium polysulfide, amplifier power supply, angular position sensor, arc-plasma spraying, automatic positioning system, automatic protection switch9) Химия: аммония персульфат (Ammonium PerSulphate), полисульфид аммония (ammonium polysulfide)10) Юридический термин: Adult Protective Services, Attending Physicians Statements11) Автомобильный термин: absolute pressure sensor (GM), atmospheric pressure sensor (Mazda), Acoustic Parking System12) Ветеринария: American Physiological Society13) Оптика: advanced photon source14) Телевидение: automatic program search15) Телекоммуникации: Affordable Portable Services, Automatic Protection Switching (SONET)16) Сокращение: Academy of Political Science, Adaptive Processor System (sonar), Address Program Support Office (Office of Operations Support), Adjustment Processing System, Advanced Fighter Crew Protection System, Advanced Planning System, Advanced Planning and Scheduling, Advanced Propulsion System, Aerial Post Squadron (USAF), Afloat Planning System (USA), Afloat Planning System, Aiming & Pointing System, Aiming and Pointing System (USMC), Aircraft Position Sensor, Aircraft Prepared for Service, American Peace Society, American Peat Society, American Pediatric Society, American Philatelic Society, American Philosophical Society, American Physical Society, American Protestant Society, Artillery Pointing System, Associate of the Pharmaceutical Society, Atomic Power Station, Automatic Pointing System, Auxiliary Power System, Anti-Phospholipid Syndrome, advanced planning/scheduling17) Университет: Academic Program Summary, Applied Problem Solving18) Физиология: Absolutely Precious Skin, Active Positive Symbiosis19) Электроника: Advanced Power Stability, Analog Protection System, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Antennas and Propagation Society20) Вычислительная техника: Application Page Server, Automated Patent System, Automatic Protection Switching, attached processor system, Application Service Provider (WAN), автоматизированная патентная система21) Нефть: abandon platform shutdown22) Иммунология: Advance Photo System23) Банковское дело: средняя доля сбережений в доходе (average propensity to save)24) Транспорт: Active Point System, Airway Planning Standard, Asset Positioning System, Auto Pilot System25) Фирменный знак: Academic Publishing Service, Amateur Pageantry Systems26) Экология: accelerated photosynthetic system27) Реклама: Общество Артура Пейджа28) СМИ: Advanced Photo System, All Programs And Sounds29) Деловая лексика: Administration Planning And Statistics, Advanced Planning Systems, Analytical Planning Scheduling, Approved Program Sequence, Automated Planning And Scheduling, Automated Process Scheduler30) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: abandon platform shutdown (Orlan platform)31) Образование: Ability Point Skill32) Инвестиции: average propensity to save33) Сетевые технологии: Aol Password Stealer, Application Provider Services, Asynchronous Port Switch, Asynchronous Protocol Specification, спецификация асинхронного протокола34) Полимеры: American Petroleum Society, average particle size( фракционный состав)35) Общая лексика: auto priming system36) Химическое оружие: Army Planning System37) Безопасность: auto polarity switching38) Расширение файла: Advanced Printing Service (IBM)39) Нефть и газ: Индукционный зонд, Надтепловой каротаж, Accelerated Porosity Sonde40) Электротехника: Arizona Public Service Company (название компании)41) Нанотехнологии: воздушно-плазменное напыление, air plasma spray, air plasma spraying42) Общественная организация: Association For Practical Shooting43) Должность: Agricultural Production Specialist45) Программное обеспечение: Agenda Productivity Suite -
28 philosophy
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29 philosophy
nounPhilosophie, die* * *[fi'losəfi]1) (the search for knowledge and truth, especially about the nature of man and his behaviour and beliefs: moral philosophy.) die Philosophie2) (a particular system of philosophical theories: I have a very simple philosophy (=attitude to life) - enjoy life!) die Weltanschauung•- academic.ru/55055/philosopher">philosopher- philosophical
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30 Logical Empiricism
Modern analytical empiricism... differs from that of Locke, Berkeley, and Hume by its incorporation of mathematics and its development of a powerful logical technique. It is thus able, in regard to certain problems, to achieve definite answers, which have the quality of science rather than of philosophy. It has the advantage, as compared with the philosophies of the system-builders, of being able to tackle its problems one at a time, instead of having to invent at one stroke a block theory of the whole universe. Its methods, in this respect, resemble those of science. I have no doubt that, in so far as philosophical knowledge is possible, it is by such methods that it must be sought: I also have no doubt that, by these methods, many ancient problems are completely soluble.... Take such questions as: What is number? What are space and time? What is mind, and what is matter? I do not say that we can here and now give definitive answers to all these ancient questions, but I do say that a method has been discovered by which, as in science, we can make successive approximations to the truth, in which each new stage results from an improvement, not a rejection, of what has gone before. (Russell, 1961, pp. 788-789)Not a single one of the great theses of Logical Empiricism (that Meaning is Method of Verification; that metaphysical propositions are literally without sense; that Mathematics is True by Convention) has turned out to be correct. It detracts from the excitement of the fact that, by turning philosophical theses into linguistic ones [as Carnap had tried to do]... one can make philosophy more scientific and settle the truth value of philosophical propositions by hard scientific research, if the results one obtains are uniformly negative. (Putnam, 1975, p. 20)Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Logical Empiricism
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31 FPS
1) Общая лексика: first person shooter, стрелялка ( экшн) от первого лица3) Медицина: ФПС (fetoplacental system - фетоплацентарная система)4) Военный термин: First Person Shooters, Force Programs Section, Forces Postal Service, fixed point station, flight preparation sheet, full pressure suit5) Техника: Fabry-Perot spherical interferometer, Fluor Power Services, Inc., ferrite phase shifter, fixed point station radar, flashes per second, fluid processing system, focal plane shutter, focal plane structure, foot-pound second, fuel pin simulator6) Сельское хозяйство: First Post Seeding7) Шутливое выражение: Fantasy Production Statistic, First Person Samurai8) Религия: First Person Saviour9) Грубое выражение: Fully Playable Stupidness10) Телекоммуникации: Framing Pattern Sequence11) Сокращение: Fast Packet Switch (Network communications), Fellow of the Pharmaceutical Society, Fellow of the Philological Society, Fellow of the Philosophical Society, Fishery Protection Squadron (UK Royal Navy), Forces Postal Service (UK), foot per second12) Вычислительная техника: Fast Packet Switching, Fast Packet Switching (X.25, Datex-J)13) Нефть: floating production system, плавучая нефтедобычная система (floating production system), система очистки и обработки бурового раствора14) Транспорт: Military Primary Radar15) Пищевая промышленность: Finished product standart16) Экология: Fauna Preservation Society17) СМИ: Four Point Stereo, Four Point Surround18) Нефтегазовая техника плавучая система для добычи нефти19) Образование: Future Problem Solvers20) Сетевые технологии: Fast Packet Switching fps frames per second, быстрая коммутация пакетов21) Автоматика: flexible planning system, flexible press system22) Оружейное производство: (скорость) футов в секунду (формула: fps = (Flb 450240) / grain)23) Сахалин Ю: foot/pound/second (units nomenclature)24) Химическое оружие: Fire protection system25) Расширение файла: Favorite Picture Selection26) Энергосистемы: ЗЭС27) Нефть и газ: плавучая нефтедобычная система / платформа28) Компьютерные игры: ( first person shooter) шутер от первого лица29) Единицы измерений: Foot Pound Second, Frags Per Second -
32 Fps
1) Общая лексика: first person shooter, стрелялка ( экшн) от первого лица3) Медицина: ФПС (fetoplacental system - фетоплацентарная система)4) Военный термин: First Person Shooters, Force Programs Section, Forces Postal Service, fixed point station, flight preparation sheet, full pressure suit5) Техника: Fabry-Perot spherical interferometer, Fluor Power Services, Inc., ferrite phase shifter, fixed point station radar, flashes per second, fluid processing system, focal plane shutter, focal plane structure, foot-pound second, fuel pin simulator6) Сельское хозяйство: First Post Seeding7) Шутливое выражение: Fantasy Production Statistic, First Person Samurai8) Религия: First Person Saviour9) Грубое выражение: Fully Playable Stupidness10) Телекоммуникации: Framing Pattern Sequence11) Сокращение: Fast Packet Switch (Network communications), Fellow of the Pharmaceutical Society, Fellow of the Philological Society, Fellow of the Philosophical Society, Fishery Protection Squadron (UK Royal Navy), Forces Postal Service (UK), foot per second12) Вычислительная техника: Fast Packet Switching, Fast Packet Switching (X.25, Datex-J)13) Нефть: floating production system, плавучая нефтедобычная система (floating production system), система очистки и обработки бурового раствора14) Транспорт: Military Primary Radar15) Пищевая промышленность: Finished product standart16) Экология: Fauna Preservation Society17) СМИ: Four Point Stereo, Four Point Surround18) Нефтегазовая техника плавучая система для добычи нефти19) Образование: Future Problem Solvers20) Сетевые технологии: Fast Packet Switching fps frames per second, быстрая коммутация пакетов21) Автоматика: flexible planning system, flexible press system22) Оружейное производство: (скорость) футов в секунду (формула: fps = (Flb 450240) / grain)23) Сахалин Ю: foot/pound/second (units nomenclature)24) Химическое оружие: Fire protection system25) Расширение файла: Favorite Picture Selection26) Энергосистемы: ЗЭС27) Нефть и газ: плавучая нефтедобычная система / платформа28) Компьютерные игры: ( first person shooter) шутер от первого лица29) Единицы измерений: Foot Pound Second, Frags Per Second -
33 fps
1) Общая лексика: first person shooter, стрелялка ( экшн) от первого лица3) Медицина: ФПС (fetoplacental system - фетоплацентарная система)4) Военный термин: First Person Shooters, Force Programs Section, Forces Postal Service, fixed point station, flight preparation sheet, full pressure suit5) Техника: Fabry-Perot spherical interferometer, Fluor Power Services, Inc., ferrite phase shifter, fixed point station radar, flashes per second, fluid processing system, focal plane shutter, focal plane structure, foot-pound second, fuel pin simulator6) Сельское хозяйство: First Post Seeding7) Шутливое выражение: Fantasy Production Statistic, First Person Samurai8) Религия: First Person Saviour9) Грубое выражение: Fully Playable Stupidness10) Телекоммуникации: Framing Pattern Sequence11) Сокращение: Fast Packet Switch (Network communications), Fellow of the Pharmaceutical Society, Fellow of the Philological Society, Fellow of the Philosophical Society, Fishery Protection Squadron (UK Royal Navy), Forces Postal Service (UK), foot per second12) Вычислительная техника: Fast Packet Switching, Fast Packet Switching (X.25, Datex-J)13) Нефть: floating production system, плавучая нефтедобычная система (floating production system), система очистки и обработки бурового раствора14) Транспорт: Military Primary Radar15) Пищевая промышленность: Finished product standart16) Экология: Fauna Preservation Society17) СМИ: Four Point Stereo, Four Point Surround18) Нефтегазовая техника плавучая система для добычи нефти19) Образование: Future Problem Solvers20) Сетевые технологии: Fast Packet Switching fps frames per second, быстрая коммутация пакетов21) Автоматика: flexible planning system, flexible press system22) Оружейное производство: (скорость) футов в секунду (формула: fps = (Flb 450240) / grain)23) Сахалин Ю: foot/pound/second (units nomenclature)24) Химическое оружие: Fire protection system25) Расширение файла: Favorite Picture Selection26) Энергосистемы: ЗЭС27) Нефть и газ: плавучая нефтедобычная система / платформа28) Компьютерные игры: ( first person shooter) шутер от первого лица29) Единицы измерений: Foot Pound Second, Frags Per Second -
34 IFPS
1) Военный термин: Interformation Position System2) Бухгалтерия: Interactive Financial Planning System, диалоговая система финансового планирования (interactive financial planning system), интерактивная система финансового планирования (interactive financial planning system)3) Дипломатический термин: International Federation of Philosophical Societies4) Сокращение: Intra-Formation Positioning System, Issued for Project Submission -
35 Language
Philosophy is written in that great book, the universe, which is always open, right before our eyes. But one cannot understand this book without first learning to understand the language and to know the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and the characters are triangles, circles, and other figures. Without these, one cannot understand a single word of it, and just wanders in a dark labyrinth. (Galileo, 1990, p. 232)It never happens that it [a nonhuman animal] arranges its speech in various ways in order to reply appropriately to everything that may be said in its presence, as even the lowest type of man can do. (Descartes, 1970a, p. 116)It is a very remarkable fact that there are none so depraved and stupid, without even excepting idiots, that they cannot arrange different words together, forming of them a statement by which they make known their thoughts; while, on the other hand, there is no other animal, however perfect and fortunately circumstanced it may be, which can do the same. (Descartes, 1967, p. 116)Human beings do not live in the object world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection. The fact of the matter is that the "real world" is to a large extent unconsciously built on the language habits of the group.... We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation. (Sapir, 1921, p. 75)It powerfully conditions all our thinking about social problems and processes.... No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same worlds with different labels attached. (Sapir, 1985, p. 162)[A list of language games, not meant to be exhaustive:]Giving orders, and obeying them- Describing the appearance of an object, or giving its measurements- Constructing an object from a description (a drawing)Reporting an eventSpeculating about an eventForming and testing a hypothesisPresenting the results of an experiment in tables and diagramsMaking up a story; and reading itPlay actingSinging catchesGuessing riddlesMaking a joke; and telling itSolving a problem in practical arithmeticTranslating from one language into anotherLANGUAGE Asking, thanking, cursing, greeting, and praying-. (Wittgenstein, 1953, Pt. I, No. 23, pp. 11 e-12 e)We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native languages.... The world is presented in a kaleidoscopic flux of impressions which has to be organized by our minds-and this means largely by the linguistic systems in our minds.... No individual is free to describe nature with absolute impartiality but is constrained to certain modes of interpretation even while he thinks himself most free. (Whorf, 1956, pp. 153, 213-214)We dissect nature along the lines laid down by our native languages.The categories and types that we isolate from the world of phenomena we do not find there because they stare every observer in the face; on the contrary, the world is presented in a kaleidoscopic flux of impressions which has to be organized by our minds-and this means largely by the linguistic systems in our minds.... We are thus introduced to a new principle of relativity, which holds that all observers are not led by the same physical evidence to the same picture of the universe, unless their linguistic backgrounds are similar or can in some way be calibrated. (Whorf, 1956, pp. 213-214)9) The Forms of a Person's Thoughts Are Controlled by Unperceived Patterns of His Own LanguageThe forms of a person's thoughts are controlled by inexorable laws of pattern of which he is unconscious. These patterns are the unperceived intricate systematizations of his own language-shown readily enough by a candid comparison and contrast with other languages, especially those of a different linguistic family. (Whorf, 1956, p. 252)It has come to be commonly held that many utterances which look like statements are either not intended at all, or only intended in part, to record or impart straightforward information about the facts.... Many traditional philosophical perplexities have arisen through a mistake-the mistake of taking as straightforward statements of fact utterances which are either (in interesting non-grammatical ways) nonsensical or else intended as something quite different. (Austin, 1962, pp. 2-3)In general, one might define a complex of semantic components connected by logical constants as a concept. The dictionary of a language is then a system of concepts in which a phonological form and certain syntactic and morphological characteristics are assigned to each concept. This system of concepts is structured by several types of relations. It is supplemented, furthermore, by redundancy or implicational rules..., representing general properties of the whole system of concepts.... At least a relevant part of these general rules is not bound to particular languages, but represents presumably universal structures of natural languages. They are not learned, but are rather a part of the human ability to acquire an arbitrary natural language. (Bierwisch, 1970, pp. 171-172)In studying the evolution of mind, we cannot guess to what extent there are physically possible alternatives to, say, transformational generative grammar, for an organism meeting certain other physical conditions characteristic of humans. Conceivably, there are none-or very few-in which case talk about evolution of the language capacity is beside the point. (Chomsky, 1972, p. 98)[It is] truth value rather than syntactic well-formedness that chiefly governs explicit verbal reinforcement by parents-which renders mildly paradoxical the fact that the usual product of such a training schedule is an adult whose speech is highly grammatical but not notably truthful. (R. O. Brown, 1973, p. 330)he conceptual base is responsible for formally representing the concepts underlying an utterance.... A given word in a language may or may not have one or more concepts underlying it.... On the sentential level, the utterances of a given language are encoded within a syntactic structure of that language. The basic construction of the sentential level is the sentence.The next highest level... is the conceptual level. We call the basic construction of this level the conceptualization. A conceptualization consists of concepts and certain relations among those concepts. We can consider that both levels exist at the same point in time and that for any unit on one level, some corresponding realizate exists on the other level. This realizate may be null or extremely complex.... Conceptualizations may relate to other conceptualizations by nesting or other specified relationships. (Schank, 1973, pp. 191-192)The mathematics of multi-dimensional interactive spaces and lattices, the projection of "computer behavior" on to possible models of cerebral functions, the theoretical and mechanical investigation of artificial intelligence, are producing a stream of sophisticated, often suggestive ideas.But it is, I believe, fair to say that nothing put forward until now in either theoretic design or mechanical mimicry comes even remotely in reach of the most rudimentary linguistic realities. (Steiner, 1975, p. 284)The step from the simple tool to the master tool, a tool to make tools (what we would now call a machine tool), seems to me indeed to parallel the final step to human language, which I call reconstitution. It expresses in a practical and social context the same understanding of hierarchy, and shows the same analysis by function as a basis for synthesis. (Bronowski, 1977, pp. 127-128)t is the language donn eґ in which we conduct our lives.... We have no other. And the danger is that formal linguistic models, in their loosely argued analogy with the axiomatic structure of the mathematical sciences, may block perception.... It is quite conceivable that, in language, continuous induction from simple, elemental units to more complex, realistic forms is not justified. The extent and formal "undecidability" of context-and every linguistic particle above the level of the phoneme is context-bound-may make it impossible, except in the most abstract, meta-linguistic sense, to pass from "pro-verbs," "kernals," or "deep deep structures" to actual speech. (Steiner, 1975, pp. 111-113)A higher-level formal language is an abstract machine. (Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 113)Jakobson sees metaphor and metonymy as the characteristic modes of binarily opposed polarities which between them underpin the two-fold process of selection and combination by which linguistic signs are formed.... Thus messages are constructed, as Saussure said, by a combination of a "horizontal" movement, which combines words together, and a "vertical" movement, which selects the particular words from the available inventory or "inner storehouse" of the language. The combinative (or syntagmatic) process manifests itself in contiguity (one word being placed next to another) and its mode is metonymic. The selective (or associative) process manifests itself in similarity (one word or concept being "like" another) and its mode is metaphoric. The "opposition" of metaphor and metonymy therefore may be said to represent in effect the essence of the total opposition between the synchronic mode of language (its immediate, coexistent, "vertical" relationships) and its diachronic mode (its sequential, successive, lineal progressive relationships). (Hawkes, 1977, pp. 77-78)It is striking that the layered structure that man has given to language constantly reappears in his analyses of nature. (Bronowski, 1977, p. 121)First, [an ideal intertheoretic reduction] provides us with a set of rules"correspondence rules" or "bridge laws," as the standard vernacular has it-which effect a mapping of the terms of the old theory (T o) onto a subset of the expressions of the new or reducing theory (T n). These rules guide the application of those selected expressions of T n in the following way: we are free to make singular applications of their correspondencerule doppelgangers in T o....Second, and equally important, a successful reduction ideally has the outcome that, under the term mapping effected by the correspondence rules, the central principles of T o (those of semantic and systematic importance) are mapped onto general sentences of T n that are theorems of Tn. (P. Churchland, 1979, p. 81)If non-linguistic factors must be included in grammar: beliefs, attitudes, etc. [this would] amount to a rejection of the initial idealization of language as an object of study. A priori such a move cannot be ruled out, but it must be empirically motivated. If it proves to be correct, I would conclude that language is a chaos that is not worth studying.... Note that the question is not whether beliefs or attitudes, and so on, play a role in linguistic behavior and linguistic judgments... [but rather] whether distinct cognitive structures can be identified, which interact in the real use of language and linguistic judgments, the grammatical system being one of these. (Chomsky, 1979, pp. 140, 152-153)23) Language Is Inevitably Influenced by Specific Contexts of Human InteractionLanguage cannot be studied in isolation from the investigation of "rationality." It cannot afford to neglect our everyday assumptions concerning the total behavior of a reasonable person.... An integrational linguistics must recognize that human beings inhabit a communicational space which is not neatly compartmentalized into language and nonlanguage.... It renounces in advance the possibility of setting up systems of forms and meanings which will "account for" a central core of linguistic behavior irrespective of the situation and communicational purposes involved. (Harris, 1981, p. 165)By innate [linguistic knowledge], Chomsky simply means "genetically programmed." He does not literally think that children are born with language in their heads ready to be spoken. He merely claims that a "blueprint is there, which is brought into use when the child reaches a certain point in her general development. With the help of this blueprint, she analyzes the language she hears around her more readily than she would if she were totally unprepared for the strange gabbling sounds which emerge from human mouths. (Aitchison, 1987, p. 31)Looking at ourselves from the computer viewpoint, we cannot avoid seeing that natural language is our most important "programming language." This means that a vast portion of our knowledge and activity is, for us, best communicated and understood in our natural language.... One could say that natural language was our first great original artifact and, since, as we increasingly realize, languages are machines, so natural language, with our brains to run it, was our primal invention of the universal computer. One could say this except for the sneaking suspicion that language isn't something we invented but something we became, not something we constructed but something in which we created, and recreated, ourselves. (Leiber, 1991, p. 8)Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Language
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36 Perkins, Jacob
[br]b. 9 July 1766 Newburyport, Massachusetts, USAd. 30 July 1849 London, England[br]American inventor of a nail-making machine and a method of printing banknotes, investigator of the use of steam at very high pressures.[br]Perkins's occupation was that of a gold-and silversmith; while he does not seem to have followed this after 1800, however, it gave him the skills in working metals which he would continue to employ in his inventions. He had been working in America for four years before he patented his nail-making machine in 1796. At the time there was a great shortage of nails because only hand-forged ones were available. By 1800, other people had followed his example and produced automatic nail-making machines, but in 1811 Perkins' improved machines were introduced to England by J.C. Dyer. Eventually Perkins had twenty-one American patents for a range of inventions in his name.In 1799 Perkins invented a system of engraving steel plates for printing banknotes, which became the foundation of modern siderographic work. It discouraged forging and was adopted by many banking houses, including the Federal Government when the Second United States Bank was inaugurated in 1816. This led Perkins to move to Philadelphia. In the intervening years, Perkins had improved his nail-making machine, invented a machine for graining morocco leather in 1809, a fire-engine in 1812, a letter-lock for bank vaults and improved methods of rolling out spoons in 1813, and improved armament and equipment for naval ships from 1812 to 1815.It was in Philadelphia that Perkins became interested in the steam engine, when he met Oliver Evans, who had pioneered the use of high-pressure steam. He became a member of the American Philosophical Society and conducted experiments on the compressibility of water before a committee of that society. Perkins claimed to have liquified air during his experiments in 1822 and, if so, was the real discoverer of the liquification of gases. In 1819 he came to England to demonstrate his forgery-proof system of printing banknotes, but the Bank of England was the only one which did not adopt his system.While in London, Perkins began to experiment with the highest steam pressures used up to that time and in 1822 took out his first of nineteen British patents. This was followed by another in 1823 for a 10 hp (7.5 kW) engine with only 2 in. (51 mm) bore, 12 in. (305 mm) stroke but a pressure of 500 psi (35 kg/cm2), for which he claimed exceptional economy. After 1826, Perkins abandoned his drum boiler for iron tubes and steam pressures of 1,500 psi (105 kg/cm2), but the materials would not withstand such pressures or temperatures for long. It was in that same year that he patented a form of uniflow cylinder that was later taken up by L.J. Todd. One of his engines ran for five days, continuously pumping water at St Katherine's docks, but Perkins could not raise more finance to continue his experiments.In 1823 one his high-pressure hot-water systems was installed to heat the Duke of Wellington's house at Stratfield Saye and it acquired a considerable vogue, being used by Sir John Soane, among others. In 1834 Perkins patented a compression ice-making apparatus, but it did not succeed commercially because ice was imported more cheaply from Norway as ballast for sailing ships. Perkins was often dubbed "the American inventor" because his inquisitive personality allied to his inventive ingenuity enabled him to solve so many mechanical challenges.[br]Further ReadingHistorical Society of Pennsylvania, 1943, biography which appeared previously as a shortened version in the Transactions of the Newcomen Society 24.D.Bathe and G.Bathe, 1943–5, "The contribution of Jacob Perkins to science and engineering", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 24.D.S.L.Cardwell, 1971, From Watt to Clausius. The Rise of Thermodynamics in the Early Industrial Age, London: Heinemann (includes comments on the importance of Perkins's steam engine).A.F.Dufton, 1940–1, "Early application of engineering to warming of buildings", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 21 (includes a note on Perkins's application of a high-pressure hot-water heating system).RLH -
37 philosophy
fi'losəfiplural - philosophies; noun1) (the search for knowledge and truth, especially about the nature of man and his behaviour and beliefs: moral philosophy.) filosofía2) (a particular system of philosophical theories: I have a very simple philosophy (=attitude to life) - enjoy life!) filosofía•- philosophical
- philosophic
- philosophically
- philosophize
- philosophise
philosophy n filosofíatr[fɪ'lɒsəfɪ]1 filosofían.• filosofía s.f.fə'lɑːsəfi, fɪ'lɒsəfimass & count noun filosofía f[fɪ'lɒsǝfɪ]N filosofía f* * *[fə'lɑːsəfi, fɪ'lɒsəfi]mass & count noun filosofía f -
38 writing
noun (letters or other forms of script giving the written form of (a) language: the Chinese form of writing; I can't read your writing.) escriturawriting n1. letrayour writing is terrible! ¡tienes una letra horrible!2. escribir / escrituratr['raɪtɪŋ]1 (script) escritura; (handwriting) letracan you read my writing? ¿entiendes mi letra?2 (written work) composición nombre femenino, trabajo3 (occupation) profesión nombre femenino de escritor,-ra, trabajo literario; (activity) escribir nombre masculino1 obra, escritos nombre masculino plural\SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALLin writing por escritothe writing on the wall los malos presagioswriting desk escritoriowriting materials objetos nombre masculino plural de escritoriowriting paper papel nombre masculino de escribirwriting ['raɪt̬ɪŋ] n: escritura fn.• letra s.f.adj.• de escribir adj.n.• el escribir s.m.• escrito s.m.• escritura s.f.• profesión de escritor s.f.'raɪtɪŋa) u ( script) escritura fb) u ( written material)the wall was covered in writing — la pared estaba llena de pintadas or de graffiti
the writing is on the wall: the writing was on the wall for the company la compañía tenía los días contados; (before n) writing desk escritorio m; writing materials artículos mpl de escritorio; writing pad bloc m; writing paper — papel m de carta
c) u (BrE) ( handwriting) letra fd) u ( act of composing)e) u ( written composition) literatura ff) writings pl['raɪtɪŋ]1. N1) (=handwriting) letra f2) (=system) escritura f3) (=letters, words)I could see the writing but couldn't read it — podía ver que había algo escrito pero no podía leerlo
- see the writing on the wallthe writing is on the wall for the president/the company — el presidente/la compañia tiene los días contados
4) (=written work)5) (=activity) escritura fwriting is his hobby — su hobby es la escritura, su hobby es escribir
2.CPDwriting case N — estuche m para material de correspondencia
writing desk N — escritorio m
writing materials NPL — artículos mpl de escritorio
writing pad N — bloc m
writing paper N — papel m de escribir
writing table N — escritorio m
* * *['raɪtɪŋ]a) u ( script) escritura fb) u ( written material)the wall was covered in writing — la pared estaba llena de pintadas or de graffiti
the writing is on the wall: the writing was on the wall for the company la compañía tenía los días contados; (before n) writing desk escritorio m; writing materials artículos mpl de escritorio; writing pad bloc m; writing paper — papel m de carta
c) u (BrE) ( handwriting) letra fd) u ( act of composing)e) u ( written composition) literatura ff) writings pl -
39 philosophy
[fi'losəfi]plural - philosophies; noun1) (the search for knowledge and truth, especially about the nature of man and his behaviour and beliefs: moral philosophy.) heimspeki2) (a particular system of philosophical theories: I have a very simple philosophy (=attitude to life) - enjoy life!) heimspeki•- philosophical
- philosophic
- philosophically
- philosophize
- philosophise -
40 philosophy
[fi'losəfi]plural - philosophies; noun1) (the search for knowledge and truth, especially about the nature of man and his behaviour and beliefs: moral philosophy.) filozófia2) (a particular system of philosophical theories: I have a very simple philosophy (=attitude to life) - enjoy life!) életfilozófia•- philosophical
- philosophic
- philosophically
- philosophize
- philosophise
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