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Reason, causation and compatibility with the phenomena
'Reason, Causation and Compatibility with the Phenomena' strives to give answers to the philosophical problem of the interplay between realism, explanation and experience. This book is a compilation of essays that recollect significant conceptions of rival terms such as determinism and freedom, reason and appearance, power and knowledge. This title discusses the progress made in epistemology and natural philosophy, especially the steps that led from the ancient theory of atomism to the modern quantum theory, and from mathematization to analytic philosophy. Moreover, it provides possible gateways from modern deadlocks of theory either through approaches to consciousness or through historical critique of intellectual authorities.
This work will be of interest to those either researching or studying in colleges and universities, especially in the departments of philosophy, history of science, philosophy of science, philosophy of physics and quantum mechanics, history of ideas and culture. Greek and Latin Literature students and instructors may also find this book to be both a fascinating and valuable point of reference
Computer-Aided Discovery and Categorisation of Personality Axioms
We propose a computer-algebraic, order-theoretic framework based on
intuitionistic logic for the computer-aided discovery of personality axioms
from personality-test data and their mathematical categorisation into formal
personality theories in the spirit of F.~Klein's Erlanger Programm for
geometrical theories. As a result, formal personality theories can be
automatically generated, diagrammatically visualised, and mathematically
characterised in terms of categories of invariant-preserving transformations in
the sense of Klein and category theory. Our personality theories and categories
are induced by implicational invariants that are ground instances of
intuitionistic implication, which we postulate as axioms. In our mindset, the
essence of personality, and thus mental health and illness, is its invariance.
The truth of these axioms is algorithmically extracted from histories of
partially-ordered, symbolic data of observed behaviour. The personality-test
data and the personality theories are related by a Galois-connection in our
framework. As data format, we adopt the format of the symbolic values generated
by the Szondi-test, a personality test based on L.~Szondi's unifying,
depth-psychological theory of fate analysis.Comment: related to arXiv:1403.200
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