typicality

The wandering gluttons of fascist Italy gave the idea of typicality a new swagger and a new poetry.

Delizia! John Dickie 2008

His saber-rattling against Afghanistan and Iran is frightening in it's potential and troubling in it's typicality.

A Radical Confession of Hope Regarding Obama 2008

The results minimally mean that by the time kids can perform this task -- look at an event described by a verb when that verb is mentioned -- they are not immediately sensitive to the typicality of the event.

Archive 2008-10-01 josh 2008

By 3 years old, though, the kids were back to looking at the correct event regardless of typicality though they reportedly giggled at the atypical events.

Learning verbs is hard josh 2008

First, we don't really know that the 18 month old infants were not sensitive to typicality, only that they didn't show it in this experiment.

Learning verbs is hard josh 2008

In fact, folks like Hartle and Srednicki have explicitly argued that the assumption of our own “typicality” is completely unwarranted.

Boltzmann’s Universe Sean 2008

“Note that this scenario makes no assumptions about our typicality — it assumes, to the contrary, that we are exactly who we (presently) perceive ourselves to be, no more and no less.”

Boltzmann’s Universe Sean 2008

They didn't appear to know any of the verbs. 18 month olds, however, looked at the correct video regardless of the typicality of the event.

Learning verbs is hard josh 2008

Note that this scenario makes no assumptions about our typicality — it assumes, to the contrary, that we are exactly who we (presently) perceive ourselves to be, no more and no less.

Boltzmann’s Universe Sean 2008

They didn't appear to know any of the verbs. 18 month olds, however, looked at the correct video regardless of the typicality of the event.

Archive 2008-10-01 josh 2008