"Number is one of man's schemes for adapting himself to his environment. Development of the concept of number in man is intricately bound up with growth in him of language. Man is a social being and almost from birth, language activity becomes a part of his reactions to stimuli. He is therefore apt to use a partial language response even when the stimulus does not come from a strictly social setting"-- / Typescript / "June, 1920" / M.A. Florida State College for Women / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 89-91)

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This dissertation is a commentary on one of Spren Kierkegaard's most difficult works, The Concept of Anxiety. Its aim is to show that Kierkegaard does not have a modern existentialist understanding of the self. It is in his treatment of the problems of freedom and time in The Concept of Anxiety that the differences of his thought from the tradition of existentialism can be most clearly seen. The doctrine which is central to existentialism, according to which man makes himself and is therefore the creator of all meaning and value, is often attributed by some commentators to the thought of Kierkegaard. It is my claim that such a doctrine is incompatible with the religious basis of Kierkegaard's view of the self. For Kierkegaard the freedom of the self does not consist in the fact that the possibilities for choice are unlimited. The self becomes free only by acknowledging its dependence on a reality which is external to the self and which eternally defines it. Kierkegaard's view of freedom and the self is closer to that of Augustine's, according to which the self becomes free by being bound to God. Freedom is therefore not an immediate possession of the self but something which must be acquired by virtue of the supernatural action of grace, the origin of which is God. A corollary of the existentialist view of the self is that the self is inextricably caught within time relations, and therefore perpetually divided from the presence of the eternal. Kierkegaard's argument, as it is presented in The Concept of Anxiety, assumes, on the contrary, that for the self to be a self it must come into a real relation to the eternal in what he calls the "Moment". I will argue on the basis of this interpretation that Kierkegaard's articulation of the self's relation to time further differentiates him from the existentialist tradition. This conclusion also flows from the fact that Kierkegaard's understanding of the self is a theological one. Though it is quite widely held that Kierkegaard was the found.er of the existentialist movement, it will be my argument that such an assumption is based on a misconception. Though certain writers of the twentieth century adopted Kierkegaard as their own, they did so only by truncating the basic elements of his view of the self. / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

The fact that some subjects learn both relevant dimensions in a relevant redundant cue concept identification problem has been offered in sudport of the use of a multiple look strategy by subjects. The present study shows that subjects are «o3 i > assarily using a multiple look strategy but rather may be using a one-look strategy to solve the problem. This was shown by asking one group of subjects to stop responding and state their solution to the problem when they felt that they had solved the problem. They then continued responding until they hac completed a fairly large number of consecutive correct responses. At this point they were again quizzed on their solution. A total of 46 subjects were run in this group and of this number, 19 were identified as two cue learners at the end of the criterion run. Of these 19 two cue learners only 5 had learned about the two relevant cues at the solution trial. These results were compared with a group of subjects who solved the problem without being stopped. Of the H6 subjects run in this group 18 were classified as two cue learners at the end of the criterion run. The results are discussed in terms of supporting a one-look interpretation of concept identification learning.

Digital applications and devices record data over time to enable the users and managers to monitor their activity. Errors occur in data, including the time series data, for various reasons including software system failures and human errors. The problem of identifying errors, also referred to as anomaly detection, in time series data is a well studied topic by the data management and systems researchers. Such data are often recorded in dynamic environments where a change in the standard or the recording hardware can result in different and novel patterns arising in the data. Such novel patterns are caused by what is referred to as concept drifts. Concept drift occurs when there is a pattern change in the statistical properties of the data, e.g. the distribution of the data, over time. The problem of identifying anomalies in time series data recorded and stored in dynamic environments has not been extensively studied. In this study, we focus on this problem. We propose and implement a unified framework that is able to identify drifts in univariate time series data and incorporate information gained from the data to train a learning model that is able to detect anomalies in unseen univariate time series data. / Thesis / Master of Science (MSc)

With the massive deluges of data that several domains of study experience, referred to as Big Data, the need to efficiently process and analyze data has risen. Ontologies have been employed to structure these domains with the ultimate purpose of generating new knowledge about the respective domain. Currently, when creating or examining an ontology, the concepts of the domain are limited to being statically defined in relation to other concepts. This limitation on the concept's definition affects the reasoning process by omitting or not properly representing all information that may exist in the domain such as how the constantly evolving environment changes how the data can be understood. The resulting tool of this research, Conto, allows for the interpretation of a concept as an abstract data type. When coupled to knowledge generation process, these interpretations allow the obtention of new knowledge that would traditionally be unobtainable. The different types of knowledge that can be obtained via the multiple interpretations are explored in this work using examples of ontologies. Conto is a Protege plugin that uses Ontograf to display the ontologies. / Thesis / Master of Applied Science (MASc)

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