1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454735703321

Autore

McGinn Colin <1950->

Titolo

Knowledge and reality [[electronic resource] ] : selected essays / / Colin McGinn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Clarendon Press

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999

ISBN

0-19-159801-1

0-19-151937-5

9786612051890

1-282-05189-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (339 p.)

Disciplina

110

Soggetti

Knowledge, Theory of

Realism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""PART I: KNOWLEDGE AND NECESSITY""; ""1. The Concept of Knowledge""; ""2. A Priori and A Posteriori Knowledge""; ""3. A Note on the Essence of Natural Kinds""; ""4. On the Necessity of Origin""; ""5. Modal Reality""; ""PART II: THOUGHT AND WORLD""; ""6. The Structure of Content""; ""7. Conceptual Causation: Some Elementary Reflections""; ""8. Charity, Interpretation, and Belief""; ""9. Radical Interpretation and Epistemology""; ""10. The Mechanism of Reference""; ""PART III: REALITY AND APPEARANCE""; ""11. Truth and Use""

""12. An A Priori Argument for Realism""""13. Two Notions of Realism?""; ""14. Realist Semantics and Content-Ascription""; ""15. Another Look at Colour""; ""16. The Appearance of Colour""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W""

Sommario/riassunto

Knowledge and Reality brings together a selection of Colin McGinn's philosophical essays from the 1970s to the 1990s taking as its theme the relationship between the mind and the world.



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996466520803316

Autore

Siegert Wolfgang

Titolo

Local Lyapunov Exponents [[electronic resource] ] : Sublimiting Growth Rates of Linear Random Differential Equations / / by Wolfgang Siegert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2009

ISBN

3-540-85964-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2009.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (IX, 254 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Mathematics, , 0075-8434 ; ; 1963

Classificazione

MAT 606f

SI 850

60F1060H1037H1534F0434C1158J3591B2837N1092D1592D25

Disciplina

515.35

Soggetti

Probabilities

Dynamics

Ergodic theory

Differential equations

Global analysis (Mathematics)

Manifolds (Mathematics)

Game theory

Biomathematics

Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes

Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory

Ordinary Differential Equations

Global Analysis and Analysis on Manifolds

Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences

Genetics and Population Dynamics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-251) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Linear differential systems with parameter excitation -- Locality and time scales of the underlying non-degenerate stochastic system: Freidlin-Wentzell theory -- Exit probabilities for degenerate systems -- Local Lyapunov exponents.

Sommario/riassunto

Establishing a new concept of local Lyapunov exponents the author



brings together two separate theories, namely Lyapunov exponents and the theory of large deviations. Specifically, a linear differential system is considered which is controlled by a stochastic process that during a suitable noise-intensity-dependent time is trapped near one of its so-called metastable states. The local Lyapunov exponent is then introduced as the exponential growth rate of the linear system on this time scale. Unlike classical Lyapunov exponents, which involve a limit as time increases to infinity in a fixed system, here the system itself changes as the noise intensity converges, too.

3.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00236656

Titolo

Quarterly Labour Force Statistics

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris, : OCD

ISSN

0304-3312

0255-3627

Soggetti

Statistica - Periodici

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Trimestrale. - Descrizione  basata su: (1988) n.3