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Free Download Ambiguity in Mind and Nature: Multistable Cognitive Phenomena By G. Roth (auth.), Dr. Peter Kruse, Professor Dr. Michael Stadler (eds.)
1995 | 493 Pages | ISBN: 3642784135 | PDF | 16 MB
Ambiguity in Mind and Nature is the result of cognitive multistability, the phenomenon in which an unchanging stimulus, usually visual, gives rise in the subject to an oscillating perceptual interpretation. The vase/face picture is one of the most famous examples. In this book scientists from many disciplines including physics, biology, psychology, maths and computer science, present recent progress in this fascinating area of cognitive science. Using the phenomenon of multistability as a paradigm they seek to understand how meaning originates in the brain as a consequence of cognitive processes. New advances are achieved by applying concepts such as self-organization, chaos theory and complex systems to the latest results of psychological and neurophysical experiments.

Free Download Automatic Ambiguity Resolution in Natural Language Processing: An Empirical Approach By Alexander Franz (eds.)
1996 | 164 Pages | ISBN: 3540620044 | PDF | 3 MB
This is an exciting time for Artificial Intelligence, and for Natural Language Processing in particular. Over the last five years or so, a newly revived spirit has gained prominence that promises to revitalize the whole field: the spirit of empiricism.This book introduces a new approach to the important NLP issue of automatic ambiguity resolution, based on statistical models of text. This approach is compared with previous work and proved to yield higher accuracy for natural language analysis. An effective implementation strategy is also described, which is directly useful for natural language analysis. The book is noteworthy for demonstrating a new empirical approach to NLP; it is essential reading for researchers in natural language processing or computational linguistics.

Free Download Lisa Ebert, "Ambiguity in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights "
English | ISBN: 3506704958 | 2020 | 296 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Since its publication, Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights has given rise to an unusual plurality of interpretations, leading to the impression that the novel somehow resists interpretation. The author offers a new reading of the novel that takes this effect into account by investigating its reason: ambiguity is a thematic focal point and structural key element of the novel.

Free Download The Buddha’s Teaching and the Ambiguity of Existence, 2nd revised edition
R.G. de S. Wettimuny
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9789460900211 | 354 Pages | True ePUB | 1.53 MB

Free Download Tehseen Thaver, "Beyond Sectarianism: Ambiguity, Hermeneutics, and the Formations of Religious Identity in Islam"
English | ISBN: 1512825948 | 2024 | 320 pages | PDF | 3 MB
In this groundbreaking book, Tehseen Thaver offers a fundamental reevaluation of how one should think about the relationship between the Qur’an, Shi’ism, and religious identity. Beyond Sectarianism focuses on the literary Arabic Qur’an exegesis of the highly influential yet less studied poet, historian, and exegete al-Sharif al-Radi (d. 1015). Al-Radi’s fascinating interpretations sought to resolve Qur’anic ambiguities or mutashabihat. Through a philologically layered and historically attuned analysis, Thaver argues that al-Radi’s efforts at resolving Qur’anic ambiguities were interlocked with the project of the canonization of the Arabic language.

Free Download A Certain Ambiguity: A Mathematical Novel by Hartosh Singh Bal, Gaurav Suri
English | July 21, 2010 | ISBN: 0691146012 | True EPUB | 296 pages | 2 MB
While taking a class on infinity at Stanford in the late 1980s, Ravi Kapoor discovers that he is confronting the same mathematical and philosophical dilemmas that his mathematician grandfather had faced many decades earlier-and that had landed him in jail. Charged under an obscure blasphemy law in a small New Jersey town in 1919, Vijay Sahni is challenged by a skeptical judge to defend his belief that the certainty of mathematics can be extended to all human knowledge-including religion. Together, the two men discover the power-and the fallibility-of what has long been considered the pinnacle of human certainty, Euclidean geometry.

Free Download The Impact of Openness and Ambiguity Tolerance on Learning English As a Foreign Language
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031459393 | 187 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 10 MB
This book highlights the importance of individual learner differences in learning English as a foreign language and reports the findings of a study which investigated the impact of two personality traits, which are, openness to experience and ambiguity tolerance, on target language attainment among Polish secondary school students. The book provides an exhaustive overview of the theoretical issues and existing research related to personality, emphasizing the two traits under investigation, openness, and ambiguity tolerance, which are the focus of the empirical study reported later in the book. The empirical investigation explored relationships between openness to experience and ambiguity tolerance, as well as their impact on attainment in learning English as a foreign language. Moreover, it also aimed to shed light on the link between these traits and students’ assessments (i.e., self-assessment and school grades). The findings of the study provide a basis for proposing specific profiles of foreign language learners with different levels of openness and ambiguity tolerance.

Free Download Tom Nichols, "Giorgione’s Ambiguity "
English | ISBN: 1789142970 | 2020 | 288 pages | PDF | 70 MB
The Venetian painter known as Giorgione or "big George" died at a young age in the dreadful plague of 1510, possibly having painted fewer than twenty-five works. But many of these are among the most mysterious and alluring in the history of art. Paintings such as The Three Philosophers and The Tempest remain compellingly elusive, seeming to deny the viewer the possibility of interpreting their meaning. Tom Nichols argues that this visual elusiveness was essential to Giorgione’s sensual approach and that ambiguity is the defining quality of his art. Through detailed discussions of all Giorgione’s works, Nichols shows that by abandoning the more intellectual tendencies of much Renaissance art, Giorgione made the world and its meanings appear always more inscrutable.

Free Download John Kinsella, "Beyond ambiguity: Tracing literary sites of activism "
English | ISBN: 1526160064 | 2021 | 264 pages | PDF | 11 MB
This volume completes John Kinsella’s trilogy of critical activist poetics, begun two decades ago. It challenges familiar topoi and normatives of poetic activity as it pertains to environmental, humanitarian and textual activism in ‘the world-at-large’: it shows how ambiguity can be a generative force when it works from a basis of non-ambiguity of purpose. The book shows how there is a clear unambiguous position to have regarding issues of justice, but that from that confirmed point ambiguity can be an intense and useful activist tool. The book is an essential resource for those wishing to study Kinsella, and for those with an interest in twentieth and twenty-first-century poetry and poetics, and it will stand as an inspiring proclamation of the author’s faith in the transformative power of poetry and literary activity as a force for good in the world.

Free Download John Roth, "Gray Zones: Ambiguity and Compromise in the Holocaust and its Aftermath (War and Genocide, 8)"
English | 2005 | pages: 440 | ISBN: 184545071X, 1845453026 | PDF | 1,6 mb
Few essays about the Holocaust are better known or more important than Primo Levi’s reflections on what he called "the gray zone," a reality in which moral ambiguity and compromise were pronounced. In this volume accomplished Holocaust scholars, among them Raul Hilberg, Gerhard L. Weinberg, Christopher Browning, Peter Hayes, and Lynn Rapaport, explore the terrain that Levi identified. Together they bring a necessary interdisciplinary focus to bear on timely and often controversial topics in cutting-edge Holocaust studies that range from historical analysis to popular culture. While each essay utilizes a particular methodology and argues for its own thesis, the volume as a whole advances the claim that the more we learn about the Holocaust, the more complex that event turns out to be. Only if ambiguities and compromises in the Holocaust and its aftermath are identified, explored, and at times allowed to remain-lest resolution deceive us-will our awareness of the Holocaust and its implications be as full as possible.