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- Dictionaryersatz/ˈəːsats/
adjective
- 1. (of a product) made or used as a substitute, typically an inferior one, for something else: "ersatz coffee"
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1 day ago · Veritism consists in treating propositional structure (or ersatz propositions) as if it was the only kind of structure involved in the mind’s grasping of the world. But to refuse veritism is not to refuse a role for the grasping of propositional structure within a wider cognitive context.
2 days ago · The objects in its ersatz semiotic model are not physical things, but rather textual descriptions, representations, and associations present in the data. When a model engages in semiosis—interpreting and generating signs—it operates on this network of linguistic representations.
5 days ago · Ersatz models do X better eventually and Y better eventually, and over time, old failed models go away, like the old heuristics hand-coded approach to AI (which can still be useful for some problems). But collecting Ersatz Models of intelligence is not the same as understanding it, and approaching it in some scientific sense. Share
2 days ago · Same-sex marriage, also known as gay marriage, is the marriage of two people of the same legal sex. As of 2024, marriage between same-sex couples is legally performed and recognized in 36 countries, with a total population of 1.5 billion people (20% of the world's population).
5 days ago · Summary. American Freemasonry is as much a spatial as sacred practice. Emerging from arcane Enlightenment origins, Masonic theology and practice brim with a spatiality representative of Masonry’s compulsion to make men moral. Moral masculinity reflects in Freemasonry’s “sacred space,” Masonic geography fixed with symbols vital to the ...
20 hours ago · The Origins of the Conflict: Awalad al-Bahar and Awalad al-Gharib. On April 15, 2023, during the last ten nights of Ramadan, violent clashes broke out in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum. While ...
1 day ago · The court ruled that Mexican American civil rights as Americans had been treated as Black people had been in Texas since the 1865 surrender of the ersatz nation of the Confederate States of America. When I read the case, Hernandez v. Texas (May 1954), as a college student of constitutional law, I loved the court, the Earl Warren court.
