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Hierarchies in Dictionary Definition Space
Olivier Picard, Alexandre Blondin-Masse, Stevan Harnad +3
A dictionary defines words in terms of other words. Definitions can tell you the meanings of words you don't know, but only if you know the meanings of the defining words. How many…
COMMENTARY ON: Citing and Reading Behavours in High-Energy Physics (arXiv:0906.5418)
Stevan Harnad
Evidence confirming that OA increases impact will not be sufficient to induce enough researchers to provide OA; only mandates from their institutions and funders can ensure that. H…
On Fodor on Darwin on Evolution
Stevan Harnad
Jerry Fodor argues that Darwin was wrong about "natural selection" because (1) it is only a tautology rather than a scientific law that can support counterfactuals ("If X had happe…
First Person Singular
Stevan Harnad
Brian Rotman argues that (one) "mind" and (one) "god" are only conceivable, literally, because of (alphabetic) literacy, which allowed us to designate each of these ghosts as an in…