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Record 1 1989-12-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Philosophy (General)
  • Mathematics
CONT

Because of the necessary relativity of ascriptions of beliefs to some interpretive standard, there is an indeterminacy of the content of beliefs. Quince was right when he stressed the indeterminacy of the intentional idiom (although he was wrong to discern it only against the background of behavioral standards).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Philosophie (Généralités)
  • Mathématiques
DEF

Caractère de ce qui n'est défini ou connu avec précision. Propriété du contenu des croyances.

CONT

Indétermination d'un problème d'algèbre (dont les données sont indéterminées).

OBS

Notion développée par Quince dans son analyse de l'intentionnalité.

Spanish

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Record 2 1987-07-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Strength of Materials
DEF

In a structure of the type of a truss, ... the condition in which there are more members than would be needed to produce stability if the joints are considered to be pin-connected.

CONT

The degree of redundancy or indeterminacy ... of a structure is a number which represents the difference between the number of unknown conditions which must be satisfied and the number of equations of static equilibrium which are applicable.

CONT

A structure with redundancies is "hyperstatic", one without redundancies is "isostatic".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Résistance des matériaux
DEF

Caractère d'une poutre ou d'une structure hyperstatique.

OBS

hyperstatique : Se dit d'un système de corps ayant entre eux plus de liaisons qu'il peut en exister entre solides indéformables. (La détermination de l'équilibre d'un tel système nécessite de faire intervenir les déformations élastiques de chaque corps.)

Spanish

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