Search for dissertations about: "indexical"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the word indexical.

  2. 1. Anchoring symbols to sensory data

    Author : Silvia Coradeschi; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Computer science; Datavetenskap;

    Abstract : Intelligent agents embedded in physical environments need the ability to connect, or anchor, the symbols used to perform abstract reasoning to the physical entities which these symbols refer to. Anchoring must deal with indexical and objective references, definite and indefinite identifiers, and a temporary impossibility to perceive physical entities. READ MORE

  4. 2. When similarity qualifies as a sign : a study in picture understanding and semiotic development in young children

    Author : Sara M. Lenninger; Göran Sonesson; Gisela Håkansson; Frederik Stjernfelt; Sara Lenninger; Lunds universitet; []
    Keywords : Semiotic development; children; picture; communication; iconicity;

    Abstract : The general goal of this thesis is to elucidate children’s early understandings of pictorial meanings, and how one can know anything about them. My central aim is to explore how picture comprehension develops during children’s first 3 years of life, through semiotic-theory-derived analyses of meaning relations. READ MORE

  5. 3. When similarity qualifies as a sign : a study in picture understanding and semiotic development in young children

    Author : Sara Lenninger; Göran Sonesson; Gisela Håkansson; Kognitiv semiotik; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES;

    Abstract : The general goal of this thesis is to elucidate children’s early understandings of pictorial meanings, and how one can know anything about them. My central aim is to explore how picture comprehension develops during children’s first 3 years of life, through semiotic-theory-derived analyses of meaning relations. READ MORE

  6. 4. The Invisible Seen in French Cinema before 1917

    Author : Marina Dahlquist; Frank Kessler; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; trickfilm; vetenskaplig film; fransk tidig film; Film; Filmvetenskap; filmvetenskap; Cinema Studies;

    Abstract : Since the inception of cinema, an important strand of the medium has focused on itself, on what it depicts, and its indexical relation to the profilmic. Such concerns were most conspicuously put forward by the trick-film genre which bypassed conventional realism in its toying with the photographic image as well as cinematic movement. READ MORE

  7. 5. Objective Chance : A Study in the Lewisian Tradition

    Author : George Masterton; Lars-Göran Johansson; Ulf Danielsson; Carl Hoefer; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Theoretical philosophy; Teoretisk filosofi; Theoretical Philosophy; Teoretisk filosofi;

    Abstract : This dissertation explores the notion of objective chance as reasonable degree of belief given what might loosely be called our ultimate evidence. The goal is to develop a notion of objective chance that is broadly Humean: where chance ascriptions are construed as projected, De Dicto, physical modalities. READ MORE