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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (2): 205–222.
Published: 01 June 2020
... is overstated when in social life we resort to a much wider range of folk psychological heuristics. Copyright © 2020 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2020 theory of mind opacity principle mind shaping stranger sociality kinship sociality References Blum Susan . 2007...
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (2): 223–241.
Published: 01 June 2020
.... comm., January 23, 2019). Or consider Ku Waru, who live to the east of Bosavi: [While] in-principle assertions of the opacity doctrine are common [among Ku Waru], they are contradicted by other things that people do, including the stories that they tell. For example, in a genre of sung tales...
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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (2): 233–241.
Published: 01 June 2024
... falsely equating linguistic and cognitive competence in LLMs. But if the linguistic competence of LLMs does seem eerily human-like, there are significant reasons for it. Only recently, researchers have proposed that humans and LLMs, especially autoregressive language models, share computational principles...
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (4): 503–537.
Published: 01 December 2020
... of Tech- nology in Newark, on November 10, 2015. The screenshot shows (Total Runout Courtesy of the artist. 512 Poetics Today 41:4 black_box { text-align: justify; width: 1px; margin: -15px auto; padding: 0 2px; height: 7038px; overflow: hidden; cursor: default; opacity: 0; -webkit-transition: opacity...
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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (2): 215–222.
Published: 01 June 2024
... suggests that deep learning is remarkably effective at learning much about high-dimensional dynamic systems from extremely sparse, low-dimensional inputs (Piantadosi and Hill 2022 ), such as inferring broad principles about chemistry and biology from the structure of a single protein (Piantadosi and Hill...
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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (2): 209–255.
Published: 01 June 2005
... 1.1. Truth-Claiming versus Fictional Discourse of Testimony As a communicative act, testimony always involves dialogue, or at least envisages it. In real life, court procedure schematizes and dramatizes this interpersonal exchange, from beginning to end. There, the principle informs the giving...
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (2): 317–339.
Published: 01 June 2017
... of repeated failure and also of an enduring hunger for satisfying answers. A recurrent image or motif is not used because it has been successful; rather it is evidence of a resistant opacity, of a crux between human biology and sociality that has not yielded to the forms of representation on offer...
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Poetics Today (2000) 21 (1): 61–93.
Published: 01 March 2000
... by adopting foreign traditions.The epigonic principle, applied in order to pro- vide missing themes and/or formal elements by borrowing them from other systems took on new functions (Even-Zohar Accordingly, while European and American...
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (3): 369–385.
Published: 01 September 2016
... [1903] Sex and Character: An Investigation of Fundamental Principles , translated by Löb Ladislaus ( Bloomington : Indiana University Press ). Wordsworth William 1969 [1807] “The Rainbow,” in The Poetical Works , edited by Hutchinson Thomas , 62 ( London : Oxford...
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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (3): 551–554.
Published: 01 September 2005
... his readers with both the lesson and Marcel’s inability to learn it, Proust alerts us to a fundamental difference between his fictional protagonist and himself. The much shorter second chapter examines Marcel’s attempts to com- pensate for the existence of perspective and the consequent opacity...
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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (3): 554–556.
Published: 01 September 2005
... his readers with both the lesson and Marcel’s inability to learn it, Proust alerts us to a fundamental difference between his fictional protagonist and himself. The much shorter second chapter examines Marcel’s attempts to com- pensate for the existence of perspective and the consequent opacity...
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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (3): 557–558.
Published: 01 September 2005
... his readers with both the lesson and Marcel’s inability to learn it, Proust alerts us to a fundamental difference between his fictional protagonist and himself. The much shorter second chapter examines Marcel’s attempts to com- pensate for the existence of perspective and the consequent opacity...
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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (3): 558–561.
Published: 01 September 2005
... his readers with both the lesson and Marcel’s inability to learn it, Proust alerts us to a fundamental difference between his fictional protagonist and himself. The much shorter second chapter examines Marcel’s attempts to com- pensate for the existence of perspective and the consequent opacity...
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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (3): 561–562.
Published: 01 September 2005
... his readers with both the lesson and Marcel’s inability to learn it, Proust alerts us to a fundamental difference between his fictional protagonist and himself. The much shorter second chapter examines Marcel’s attempts to com- pensate for the existence of perspective and the consequent opacity...
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (2): 363–385.
Published: 01 June 2022
... to a set of naturalizing principles that allow us to “explain away” recalcitrant parts. However, this synthesizing of possible inconsistencies by recourse to naturalizing and ultimately often conventionalizing schemata eventually implies a top-down reading model in which our already established cognitive...
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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (3): 549–551.
Published: 01 September 2005
...- pensate for the existence of perspective and the consequent opacity of other minds through highly questionable strategies of knowledge gathering that ultimately allow him only to maintain his ignorance. Now an adult, Marcel finds the behavior of his lover, Albertine Simonet, incomprehensible; he...
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Poetics Today (2008) 29 (2): 277–308.
Published: 01 June 2008
..., opacity, and sometimes a recuperation, even if incomplete, of community, however temporary or partial. © 2008 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2008 Bazin, Andre 1967 What Is Cinema? vol. 1 , translated by Hugh Gray (Berkeley: University of California Press). Bordwell, David...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 205–230.
Published: 01 June 2023
... focusing on one person talking to the group. Mija finally appears in one of these shots. As the camera holds on her, she shares a memory from her childhood and soon begins crying. The memory is fragmented and mysterious, intimating rather than indicating a traumatic past of sexual abuse. Its opacity links...
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (1): 79–101.
Published: 01 March 2022
..., she argues, a resolute “undecidability” for how language refers to the world. They privilege “discontinuity . . . as the very principle of organization,” producing landscapes, persons, or cities that are “impossible to locate in ‘real’ space” (50–54). Defined by discontinuity, chance, and disjuncture...
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Poetics Today (2018) 39 (1): 131–158.
Published: 01 February 2018
... anachronies since they produce no tension, or “friction,” between the narrational and the narrated sequences. For Segal (ibid “a chronological narrative is, in principle, as legitimate and interesting an object of analysis as any other (e.g., anachronic) narrative type.” The list of critics who have...