47 Citations
An Archetype Theory of Puzzles
- Education
- 2018
As argued in the previous chapter, many classic math puzzles and games enfold some archetype as evidenced by the fact that it subsequently crops up in other domains and often becomes the basis of…
Puzzles and Discovery
- Psychology
- 2018
The story behind the discovery of π has been used in this book to argue that the kind of proof to estimate its value harbors an archetype (polygoning the circle), since it shows up in different eras…
Puzzles and Mathematics
- Art
- 2018
The English word puzzle covers a broad range of meanings, alluding to everything from riddles and crosswords to Sudoku, optical illusions, and difficult conundrums in advanced mathematics. As a…
Puzzles and Spatial Reasoning
- Psychology
- 2018
A main tenet of this book is that the idea-structure for many puzzles typically originates in the imagination (a right-hemispheric function) and then migrates, via a cognitive flow, to embed itself…
The Mathematical Mind
- Philosophy
- 2018
As argued throughout this book, puzzles have played as much a role as any other human artifact, mental tool, or device in human history as sparks for discovery. The Ahmes Papyrus is more than a…
Conceptualising the contemporary corporate value creation process
- Business
- 2017
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine and explain the complex interrelationships which influence the ability of firms to create value for their providers of finance and other stakeholders…
Dynamic Capabilities of SMEs: The Contributions of Bricolage and Social Capital
- Business
- 2017
Objective: Dynamic capabilities are defined as “the firm’s ability to integrate, build, and reconfigure internal and external competences to address rapidly changing environments” (Teece et al.,…
How to expect a surprising exam
- EducationSynthese
- 2016
The surprise exam paradox can be seen as one among the larger class of paradoxes of doxastic fallibilism, foremost among which is the paradox of the preface.
Making decisions about the future: Regret and the cognitive function of episodic memory
- Psychology
- 2016
In the recent literature on episodic memory, there has been increasing recognition of the need to provide an account of its adaptive function. In this context, it is sometimes argued that episodic…
Question closure to solve the surprise test
- PhilosophySynthese
- 2016
This paper offers a new solution to the Surprise Test Paradox and states that it relies on a questionable closure principle, which says that if one knows something and competently deduces something else, one knows the further thing.
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The Surprise Test Paradox
- Philosophy
- 1967
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