Sentence examples for syntactic engine from inspiring English sources

What matters to him is that consciousness arises from what the brain does - its work as a "syntactic engine" - not from what it is made of.

In that sense, the mind is a "syntactic engine".

Whether or not LOTH actually turns out to be empirically true in the details or in its entire vision of rational thinking, this picture of a syntactic engine driving a semantic one can at least be taken to be an important philosophical demonstration of how Descartes' challenge can be met (cf. Rey 1997: chp.8).

In general, the fear is that the materialist monist has to treat the organ of thought as, what Dennett (1987 61) calls, a syntactic engine: that is, as something that operates without any fundamental reference to the propositional content of what it thinks.

Our brains are syntactic engines.

But it was a way of reducing semantic engines to syntactic engines.

Computers are complex causal engines, and syntactic descriptions are useful in order to structure the causal interconnections in the machine.

Apart from Haugeland's claim that processors understand program instructions, Searle's critics can agree that computers no more understand syntax than they understand semantics, although, like all causal engines, a computer has syntactic descriptions.

In order for the brain to be a "semantic" engine rather than merely a "syntactic" one, therefore, there must be a link between the symbols it manipulates and the outside world.

MEDIE is a search engine that can be used to query MEDLINE abstracts based on named entity recognition and normalized syntactic structures produced by deep parsing.

I think inside endless semantic, syntactic, rhythmic variations.