symbolic structure
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsymbolicandstructure
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symbolic
adjective
uk/sɪmˈbɒl.ɪk/us/sɪmˈbɑː.lɪk/
representing ...
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structure
noun
uk/ˈstrʌk.tʃər/us/ˈstrʌk.tʃɚ/
the way in which the parts of a system or object are arranged or organized, or a system arranged in ...
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For example, ' the centrality of true belief in the practice of religion is part of asymbolicstructurecreated by western consciousness ' (21).
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These, then, are the ties that bind us-family, residential sections, community, economic life, power, andsymbolicstructure.
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As part of its conventionally determined value, every linguistic expression orsymbolicstructureincorporates a particular way of construing its own conceptual content or that evoked by other elements.
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The poem'ssymbolicstructurealso makes use of an opposition between darkness and light.
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Minimalism represents sentences as symbolic structures resulting from a formal process of syntactic derivation.
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Fitting models to symbolic structures assumes that a set of features has been reliably extracted from the image data by some pre-processing operation.
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Access to these symbolic structures is determined by a subsymbolic level of neural-like activation quantities.
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Lexicon, morphology, and syntax make up a continuum consisting solely of assemblies of symbolic structures.
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For example, the limitations due to the regularity of network topology led to difficulty in representing and interpreting symbolic structures (despite some limited successes so far).
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Symbolic structures are signs which may be instantiated by tokens.
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How can aesthetic practice make existing symbolic structures respond to contemporary events?
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Tensor product variable binding and the representation of symbolic structures in connectionist networks.
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