Browsing Theses by Subject "Representation"

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The Map is Not the Territory

Urbanik, Brian A (University of Waterloo, 2012-01-24)

Hi Donald, It just occurred to me that I might be finished with this fieldwork. I’m sitting at the side of the road looking over this fucked up landscape of cattle, golf carts, trees with turning leaves, being rained on, ...
The Measure Of Meaning

Pollon, Simon Carl (University of Waterloo, 2007-09-27)

There exists a broad inclination among those who theorize about mental representation to assume that the meanings of linguistic units, like words, are going to be identical to, and work exactly like, mental representations, ...
A Study of the Discursive Aspect of Scientific Theorizing and Modeling

McEwan, Micheal Joseph (University of Waterloo, 2014-09-26)

My dissertation contributes to the study of scientific theories and models by using a speech-act-theoretic framework to investigate the discursive aspect of theorizing and modeling practices. In the philosophical study of ...