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76Science and Our Effort to Find Meaning in Our World. Reflections on a Symposium Held During the Second Biennial Meeting of URAM in Europe, 1987Ultimate Reality and Meaning 11 (2): 150. 1988.Can science contribute to the human quest for meaning in this world? At the 4th biennial meeting of the International Society for the Study of Human Ideas on Ultimate Reality and Meaning, this question was submitted to four scientists and philosophers. Their answers and reflections are discussed.
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284The principle of the topological localization of symbols and the meaning of the ultimate-meaning-a contribution from the human behavioral and social-sciencesUltimate Reality and Meaning 15 (4): 296-305. 1992.A topological model of elementary semiotic schemes is presented. Implications are discussed with respect to the establishment of abstract terms and the search for ultimate meaning.
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9Cognition and social-psychology-an introductory noteCommunication and Cognition: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly Journal 21 (2): 165-166. 1988.
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62Person and non-person as basic concepts underlying alternative discourses about reality-an analysis based on the social-psychological relation-pattern model and greimas semiotic squareUltimate Reality and Meaning 12 (2): 113-132. 1989.
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420Forming subjective representations of subjective representations: Evidence of a subjective status biasGenetic Social And General Psychology Monographs 131 (3): 251-276. 2005.Proceeding from serendipitous observations, three studies and two pilot experiments examined how the way mental representations are conceived varies as the subjective status of the representations is manifest or otherwise. Participants were found to produce simple line drawings differently when the drawings were assumed to represent mental contents (beliefs, imaginations, percepts). The results challenged particular lay epistemological concepts. They were partly accounted for by Gricean conversa…Read more
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11Cognition in the light of a model of man as an open system-a contribution from social-psychologyCommunication and Cognition: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly Journal 21 (2): 167-178. 1988.
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22Science and our effort to find meaning in our world-reflections on a symposium held during the 2nd biennial meeting of uram in europe, 1987Ultimate Reality and Meaning 11 (2): 150-156. 1988.
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374Some reflections on psychologism, reductionism, and related issues leading towards an epistemological dualism of reason and experienceKU Leuven, Laboratorium voor Experimentele Sociale Psychologie. 1990.Discussing ideas from Husserl's 'Vom Ursprung der Geometrie' and the author's research on human information processing, it is suggested that there may be two relatively independent modes of knowledge. They are tentatively referred to as 'experience' and 'reason'. They constitute an epistemological dualism that may enable to avoid certain circularities in the foundation of knowledge and that may provide an avenue towards the integration of scientific and preschientific (phenomenological) knowledg…Read more
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