Placing a call to mom will be as simple as saying «mom»,» argues Joseph P. Olive, director
of language modeling.
Not exact matches
One
of the primary barriers to cash - flow
modeling, however, is that most small and medium - size business owners don't speak the
language of accountants.
This counter-intuitive idea is that the use
of defensive
language can result in outdated mental
models that stop you from reinventing today at speed and scale.
If employees disagreed on something as simple as how many
languages should appear on the bottle
of a new shampoo, they were expected to consult books
of «PACE
models» (in P&G lingo: Process owner, Approver, Contributor, Executor) to clarify who had authority in various instances.
Though the rules
of human
languages can and do vary, proponents
of the generativist
model argue they can only do so within strict parameters.
Moving forward, Fred Miller, Chair
of the Uniform Regulation
of Virtual Currency Businesses Act, tells ETHNews that once the
language of the
model law is fine - tuned by ULC's style committee, it will be presented to the House
of Delegates
of the American Bar Association (ABA) for approval.
One wonders whether the authors» use
of language derived from a medical
model is the wrong approach to the sort
of narcissism they describe.
In worship, art, architecture, literature, communal life,
language, beliefs, moral values,
models of a virtuous life, views
of the past, the persistence
of an aristocratic culture» in all
of these aspects
of life, a profound and far - reaching transformation
of the society was underway, and the book would have benefited from greater attention to at least some
of them.
Following Daly's
model,
language addressed to the Deity either spoke
of the divine as the Goddess or used nonpersonal terms.
What we meant to
model was the sending
of one
of our number to be a foreign missionary — to learn a new
language, to understand a local culture, to sacrifice the amenities
of affluence and to live knowing that he or she is always being watched by seekers — while the rest
of us stay here as lifetime local missionaries, learning to speak the
language of the unchurched, understanding secular culture, sacrificing the amenities
of affluence and living as a «watched» person in a society that is skeptical
of Christian spirituality until it sees the real thing on display.
Roberts analyzes the destructive nature
of anger that Paul warned about using metaphors from psychology and computer
language to clarify anger's positive and negative qualities, and to present a Christian
model of how to master its destructive potential.
If one accepts that metaphors (and all
language about God) are principally adverbial, having to do with how we relate to God rather than defining the nature
of God, then no metaphors or
models can be reified, petrified, or expanded so as to exclude all others.
Thus, metaphors and
models of God are understood to be discovered as well as created, to relate to God's reality not in the sense
of being literally in correspondence with it, but as versions or hypotheses
of it that the community (in this case, the church) accepts as relatively adequate.16 Hence,
models of God are not simply heuristic fictions; the critical realist does not accept the Feuerbachian critique that
language about God is nothing but human projection.
Whitehead in his response to Dewey ignored the conflicting epistemological status
of generalizations in the two
models and adopted the
language of Dewey to make a familiar point.
Ibn «Arabi's style
of intermixing radical elements with traditional
language,
models and theological structure could perhaps be explained in this background as an echo
of freethinking controlled by a rigorous interpenetration
of the old and the new.
«When the physical
model of wave - motion in a material medium had to be abandoned in physics», writes Mary Hesse, «it left its traces in the kind
of mathematics which was used, for this was still a mathematical
language derived from the wave equations
of fluid motion, and so, for the mathematician, it carried some
of the imaginative associations
of the original physical picture.»
Rather, it is a
model, which does not derive from images and reality.107 As part
of language, metaphor is not only used in a textual context, but also in an oral context, providing a social context for both.
In consequence, with such
models as their objective, physicists frequently formulate the content
of quantum mechanics in the
language of classically conceived particles and waves, because
of certain analogies between the formal structures
of classical and quantum mechanics... Accordingly, although a satisfactory uniformly complete interpretation
of quantum mechanics based on a single
model can not be given, the theory can be satisfactorily interpreted for each concrete experimental situation to which the theory is applied.2
For these reasons I will speak
of science and religion as alternative
languages using alternative
models, and restrict the term «complementary» to
models of the same logical type within a given
language.
The word God is the key in all religious
language, although phrases about him and his actions are logically odd, and we need to make use
of models and qualifiers in prolific abundance if we are to provide those situations in which may be evoked disclosures leading to commitment.
We can help them to see the connections between the
language of faith and the
language of love, or between the
language of models and the
language of art, or between the various
language - games that Wittgenstein mentions.
For a logic and rhetoric based on a logical
model, testimony can only be an alienation
of meaning or, to speak the
language of Aristotle in the Rhetoric, a means
of non-technical proof, that is, external to all the arguments that the orator can invent.
(Matt 12:25) The
language of Christianity give full voice to the sanctification
of God's name
of Jehovah and the request for God's kingdom to come to restore the earth to a paradise, as Jesus said in the
Model Prayer at Matthew 6:9, 10.
«Within this framework are places for stories, parables, poetry and other proper logical placings
of religious
language in terms
of models and their qualifiers, metaphors, and analogies.
Every discipline develops its own symbolic
language in terms
of which it replaces the total complex situation by a
model that represents those variables in which it is interested.
The first, can appear the
model of pure a priori thought, disengaged from the world
of experience; the second, a massive collection
of detailed descriptions and theories about the enormous variety
of material phenomena, but with no intelligible unity; and the third an obscure and generally unrigorous rhapsody
of affirmations and aspirations, at one end couched in the
languages of politics and sentimentality, and at the other in the terms
of a cosmic poetry unregulated by science or philosophy.
Internalizing the
language, concepts and communicative norms
of a particular field is crucial to the development
of competencies in that field (see, for example, P. N. Johnson - Laird, Mental
Models: Towards a Cognitive Science
of Language, Inference, and Consciousness [Harvard University Press, 19831 and George Lakoff, Women, Fire and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind [University
of Chicago Press, 1987]-RRB-.
Next to, or in front
of, the explicit reflected ontology
of philosophers, we may already assign to the natural subject an implicit ontology, as the implicit ontology is chiefly comprehensible in the natural
language; the ontology
of scientists takes an intermediate position, which scientists explain to the extent that they become aware
of the perception
of reality, which their concepts and
models presuppose.
The philosopher demythologizes the naturalism
of Freud's
model of the unconscious, and finds in the resulting
language field a ground for the reintroduction
of Hegel's idea
of «spirit.»
I think this reaction is mitigated if we remember that in spite
of much
of the formal ontological
language about God in traditional theology, the
language of devotion has been
modelled very largely on the acceptance
of God's hearing, responding, sharing, and suffering with his creatures:
Religious
models are in relation to other forms
of religious
language — particularly symbols, images, myths, metaphors, parables and analogies..
Three themes — the diverse functions
of language, the role
of models and the role
of paradigms — combine to support the position
of critical realism which the author defends in both science and religion.
These three themes — the diverse functions
of language, the role
of models and the role
of paradigms — combine to support the position
of critical realism which I will defend in both science and religion.
These are part
of metamodels
of language, such as the Thesaurus
model which has a mathematical structure, but this is different from bare
language awareness, which is an adaptation to hearing in time.
Your breath groups, Margaret, in your
model of language, might be relevant here, as, if I understand rightly, they are natural units for taking in hearing, and in that way they could be bounded durations.
Nevertheless, in order to get a real
model of the roots
of language, I should have thought it was very necessary not to start with this Aristotelian Subject - Predicate thought, which is for me as for Whitehead a local accident.
Political
models should be: (1) relevant — they should reflect the empirical system they attempt to symbolize; (2) economical — they should simplify that which is being
modeled; (3) rigorous — they should apply the same operating rules and assumptions
of the scheme at every level
of the system; (4) combinatorially rich — they should be able to generate webs
of relationships or patterns throughout the system; (5) powerful organizers — they should have relevance or correspondence to processes beyond the range
of their initial concern; (6) original — they should give insights beyond the highly probable visions
of everyday
language and experience.
In this
model, the church uses the
language of peoplehood,
of being a pilgrim people, strangers and aliens in the territory in which they find themselves, citizens
of the reign
of God.
One way
of moving toward such a
model is through a consideration
of the philosophy
of language.
Four issues which will be significant in the subsequent analysis
of models arise here in discussing these other linguistic forms: (1) the role
of analogy, (2) the relation
of religious symbolism to human experience, (3) the diverse functions
of religious
language (especially evident in the case
of myth) and (4) the cognitive status
of religious
language.
In this chapter I wish briefly to consider religious
models in relation to other forms
of religious
language — particularly symbols, images and myths.
It is teacher - intenstive for parents who are stretched for time, and it is specialist - intensive from the school
model with separate teachers for so many
of the subjects that make up what homeschoolers see as the beauty
of Waldorf education — foreign
languages, games and eurythmy, handwork, orchestra and voice and band, drama.
If someone cuts in front
of you in line at the grocery store, use it as a chance to
model assertive
language: «Excuse me, but I was standing here first.»
Adults also provide examples and act as role
models for children for example in their use
of language and in the control
of their emotions.
When babies are in their «awakening the senses» stage, the first
of the three - step
model of infant development, their primary needs are for responsive parents, being held, and hearing
language.
Parents must understand that the «wait and see
model» may not be the best and that if a child is showing a pattern
of impairments in their native
language and behaviorally, that immediate special educational and behavioral interventions should be implemented.
Studies
of the Nurse Family Partnership
model followed children to 6 years and found significant program effects on
language and cognitive functioning as well as fewer behaviour problems in a randomized controlled trial study.24 In addition, more recent evaluations
of Healthy Families America have shown small, but favourable effects on young children's development.25, 26
The Nurse Family Partnership
model showed a significantly better detection rate
of language delays, 10 while one study
of the Hawaii Healthy Start Program did not show evidence
of preventing
language delays or improving early identification.27
Play therapy is a
model of therapy that honors a child's unique developmental level and looks for ways
of helping in the «
language»
of the child — play.
A consensus document that has been recognized as an important
model for improving the healthcare and well being
of children beginning at birth, the Mother - Friendly Childbirth Initiative has been translated into several
languages and is gaining support around the world.