Care selected on the basis of their informativeness. From Wordnik.com. [By Request: Reasoning] Reference
Thank you for providing the link to much more awesome animal informativeness. From Wordnik.com. [Weird (and awesome) link! Green porno.] Reference
This guide doesn't lack much in the way of charm, ease of use, or informativeness. From Wordnik.com. [Guide to the Guides] Reference
The informativeness of each card is a function of the probability of the items mentioned in the rule. From Wordnik.com. [By Request: Reasoning] Reference
The average informativeness of the resulting string S depends on the probability of the occurrence of each symbol. From Wordnik.com. [Semantic Conceptions of Information] Reference
It is a function of the average informativeness of the (potentially unlimited) string of symbols produced by the device. From Wordnik.com. [Semantic Conceptions of Information] Reference
Clearly, the lower the probability of occurrence of a symbol, the higher is the informativeness of its actual occurrence. From Wordnik.com. [Semantic Conceptions of Information] Reference
Atlas, J.D., and Levinson, S.C. (1981) It-clefts, informativeness, and logical form: Radical pragmatics (revised standard version). From Wordnik.com. [Implicature] Reference
The scaling is achieved via a combination of topic segmentation and informative phrase selection, where the threshold for informativeness decreases with increasing level of detail. From Wordnik.com. [Technical Report: Browsing Recorded Audio Conversations (Microsoft) « ResourceShelf] Reference
(Bach and Harnish 1979, McDowell 1980) The primacy of the aim of informativeness explains why the untruths of tact and related forms of social politeness should be set aside, as well. From Wordnik.com. [Epistemological Problems of Testimony] Reference
When liberal talk show hosts display that same level of informativeness, accuracy and entertainment of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck and others of their ilk, you will see more liberal talk radio. From Wordnik.com. [Talk Radio Imbalance] Reference
These assumptions are made for the sake of economy, though the discussion tends toward the substantive claim that literal usage is primary and that informativeness is the basic communicational goal. From Wordnik.com. [Epistemological Problems of Testimony] Reference
Generalising, the more distant some semantic-factual information Ï is from its target w, the larger is the number of situations to which it applies, the lower its degree of informativeness becomes. From Wordnik.com. [Semantic Conceptions of Information] Reference
On the other hand, inclination to predict may be guided by the desire to be maximize informativeness rather than merely likelihood of being correct, and suitability needs to conform to no formal rule. From Wordnik.com. [By Request: Reasoning] Reference
He wished to avoid the moral didacticism and dull informativeness of expository poems; and he rejected the obvious, ponderous shape of epic narrative (which was already, of course, splendidly managed by novelists in prose). From Wordnik.com. [Aoi!] Reference
The vast, shared collection of beliefs that, in Davidson's words, are “too dull, trite, or familiar to stand notice,” dwarfs by comparison the set of beliefs likely to be expressed in testimony, since the latter are presented only on the presumption of their informativeness to hearers. From Wordnik.com. [Epistemological Problems of Testimony] Reference
Stalnaker uses his pragmatic theory to deal with issues that might be thought to require a semantic explanation, such as the informativeness of identity statements ( "Hesperus is Phosphorus") and the import of negative existentials ( "Homer did not exist"); in doing so he saw himself as continuing in a Gricean tradition. From Wordnik.com. [Pragmatics] Reference
For some genes, we covered more extensive regions to increase informativeness. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
In the interests of informativeness, this is where I will be for the next month or so. From Wordnik.com. [Christine from the Internet] Reference
Its benefit is the reduction of cognitive strains whereas its drawback is providing not too much informativeness. From Wordnik.com. [LearnHub Activities] Reference
Paradox of analysis: It seems that no conceptual analysis can both meet the requirement of correctness and of informativeness. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Still, for sheer informativeness, breadth of content and ensuing commentary, nothing online could ever do what ONTD does better. From Wordnik.com. [fourfour] Reference
It had the tweedy texture of Scotch talk, the characteristic lack of suavity and richness in sense, in casual informativeness, in appositeness. From Wordnik.com. [The Judge] Reference
The informativeness of the presented dimensions was assessed by calculating the proportion of their respective eigenvalues to the sum of absolute eigenvalues. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Could one, without actually uttering threats or using improper methods, suggest that over-informativeness in the witness-box might involve an inquiry into the matter of paraffin?. From Wordnik.com. [Busman's Honeymoon]
QI, or an aggregate index of virtual intellectual capital, is calculated on the basis of normalized indexes of quality and demand of internet resources, such as citing, relevance, importance, informativeness, popularity and authoritativeness of websites and portals (with the aid of the most popular internet search systems Google and Yandex indexes of citing). From Wordnik.com. [Armenianow] Reference
If Ï has a very high degree of informativeness ι (very low. From Wordnik.com. [Semantic Conceptions of Information] Reference
A significant improvement in accuracy, informativeness, and fluency. From Wordnik.com. [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference
I don’t always remember to read David Podvin, but he puts incisiveness and informativeness together as well as anybody out there. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Labor: Beach Update] Reference
θ) we want to be able to say that it contains a large quantity of semantic information and, vice versa, the lower the degree of informativeness of Ï is, the smaller the quantity of semantic information conveyed by Ï should be. From Wordnik.com. [Semantic Conceptions of Information] Reference
Taking that structure and shoehorning fonts into it ensures that what you get is not a periodic table. periodic table with beer, it's obvious that it's just harmless fun, but in this case, there is an honest, misguided, attempt to replicate the structural informativeness of the periodic table but with no attempt to base this on a structure that actually underlies fonts, choosing instead to use valence electrons by atomic weight to decide how many families of typeface there must be and where fonts should go. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Posts Across MetaFilter] Reference
"If you actually look at the papers and broadcasting services that are promoted as being gold standard from the 60s and 70s, while it may be striking that politics, parliament and courts were reported in more detail, the superiority of the actual readability and informativeness is not at all clear. From Wordnik.com. [Mail & Guardian Online] Reference
˜informativeness™ of a probability distribution. From Wordnik.com. [Interpretations of Probability] Reference
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