Sentence examples for functional definitions from inspiring English sources

Functional definitions take some function(s) or intended function(s) to be definitive of artworks.

A somewhat similar framework for understanding eliminative materialism is provided by David Lewis's discussion of functional definitions in psychology (1972) (see the entry on functionalism).

Thus, there may be functional definitions of states of specific subsystems of the mind, such as those involved in sensory reception (hearing, vision, touch) or in capacities such as language, memory, problem solving, mathematics, and interpersonal empathy.

(Though functionalists of course acknowledge that the first-order states that satisfy the functional definitions may vary from species to species — or even from individual to individual — they specify that, for each individual, the functional definitions be uniquely satisfied).

This can be done by focusing on a general method for constructing functional definitions introduced by David Lewis (1972; building on an idea of Frank Ramsey's), which has become standard practice for functionalists of all varieties.

One might worry, nonetheless, that functional definitions threaten to leave too many commonly cited generalizations outside the realm of contingency, and thus causal explanation: surely, we may think, we want to affirm claims such as "pain causes wincing".

Studies that investigate the organisation and/or function of the M1 (regardless of the anatomical or functional definition used) with the following techniques: TMS, MRI, positron emission tomography, EEG and magnetoencephalography.

Scientific or philosophic responses to this problem often propose a functional definition: an organism is dead when its integrative and homeostatic functions are irreversibly lost [ 32].

The "inverted qualia" objection to functionalism maintains that there could be an individual who (for example) satisfies the functional definition of our experience of red, but is experiencing green instead.

"That's a functional definition of a cure".

"I don't feel I'm particularly qualified to judge exactly what a precise functional definition of genocide is, but it seemed a no-brainer that killing a million people because they were Armenians fit the definition".