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Semantic Noise and Conceptual Stagnation in Natural Language Processing 自然语言处理中的语义噪声与概念停滞

IF 0.3 4区社会学

ANGELAKI-JOURNAL OF THE THEORETICAL HUMANITIES Pub Date : 2023-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/0969725X.2023.2216555

S. de Jager

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Sketch of an Axiology of Contingency 偶然性价值论梗概

IF 0.3 4区社会学

ANGELAKI-JOURNAL OF THE THEORETICAL HUMANITIES Pub Date : 2023-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/0969725X.2023.2216558

Yuk Hui

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From the Mental State of Noise to the New Frontiers of Cognition 从噪音的精神状态到认知的新前沿

IF 0.3 4区社会学

ANGELAKI-JOURNAL OF THE THEORETICAL HUMANITIES Pub Date : 2023-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/0969725X.2023.2216537

Cecile Malaspina

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Creativity 创造力

IF 0.3 4区社会学

ANGELAKI-JOURNAL OF THE THEORETICAL HUMANITIES Pub Date : 2023-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/0969725X.2023.2216550

J. Augustus Bacigalupi

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In the Shadows of the Cosmos 在宇宙的阴影中

IF 0.3 4区社会学

ANGELAKI-JOURNAL OF THE THEORETICAL HUMANITIES Pub Date : 2023-03-04 DOI: 10.1080/0969725X.2023.2192066

T. Correia

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Could it be that what I’m writing to you is Behind Thought? 可能是我给你写的是《思想背后》吗？

IF 0.3 4区社会学

ANGELAKI-JOURNAL OF THE THEORETICAL HUMANITIES Pub Date : 2023-03-04 DOI: 10.1080/0969725X.2023.2192073

J. Nancy, Fernanda Negrete

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To Write is to Think [The Is-] Being 写作就是思考存在

IF 0.3 4区社会学

ANGELAKI-JOURNAL OF THE THEORETICAL HUMANITIES Pub Date : 2023-03-04 DOI: 10.1080/0969725X.2023.2192057

M. Schuback

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Lispector’s Halo Lispector ' s灵气

IF 0.3 4区社会学

ANGELAKI-JOURNAL OF THE THEORETICAL HUMANITIES Pub Date : 2023-03-04 DOI: 10.1080/0969725X.2023.2192060

Daae Jung, João Paulo Guimarães

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The Failure of Language Amidst the Joy of Grace 在恩典的喜悦中语言的失败

IF 0.3 4区社会学

ANGELAKI-JOURNAL OF THE THEORETICAL HUMANITIES Pub Date : 2023-03-04 DOI: 10.1080/0969725X.2023.2192070

Colby Dickinson

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We are all the Smallest Woman in the World 我们都是世界上最小的女人

IF 0.3 4区社会学

ANGELAKI-JOURNAL OF THE THEORETICAL HUMANITIES Pub Date : 2023-03-04 DOI: 10.1080/0969725X.2023.2192062

Luz Horne, J. Brodie

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