Intelligibility, defined

From another point of view matter was considered by the medieval philosophers as composed of body, spirit and soul. Body was that which gave solidity and permanence, spirit was that which fled from the fire or was volatile. Soul was not very intelligibly defined, and not so generally adopted. Paracelsus crystallized these vague theories into a more tangible form by assuming that all matter is made up of three primal substances, sulphur, mercury and salt. To these three constituents he ascribed more definite functions than had previously been recognized. Sulphur was the combustible principle, mercury that which imparts fusibility, liquidity and volatility, salt that which is nonvolatile and incombustible. This idea he developed extensively in very many of his works. Thus in the Paramirum ... 

Intuitive, empirical grasp of a concept was memorably expressed by Associate Justice Potter Stewart in the US Supreme Court decision in Jacobellis versus Ohio [12] Perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly [defining it]. But I know it when I see it. ... 

Maintenance, defined as the upkeep of property, is one of the most important operations in a plant. The manufacture and maintenance of turbomachinery are totally different. The first involves the shaping and assembly of various parts to required tolerances, while the second, maintenance, involves restoration of these tolerances through a series of intelligent compromises. The crux of maintenance technique is in keeping the compromises intelligent. 

Traditional control systems are in general based on mathematical models that describe the control system using one or more differential equations that define the system response to its inputs. In many cases, the mathematical model of the control process may not exist or may be too expensive in terms of computer processing power and memory. In these cases a system based on empirical rules may be more effective. In many cases, fuzzy control can be used to improve existing controller systems by adding an extra layer of intelligence to the current control method. 

A mathematical device, the NSS, which can be related to Artificial Intelligence techniques, has been defined and applied in order to solve or reformulate some quantum chemical problems. This symbol is related to computer formulae generation. It has been shown that by means of the use of NSS s many applications of such symbols can be found in mathematics as well as in Mathematical Chemistry in particular. 

Computer scientists usually define AI in terms of what it can accomplish. They are especially interested in the creation of intelligent software that can reproduce the kind of behavior that humans would recognize as intelligent, such as understanding language or conducting a conversation. 

When life is to be defined, it is necessary for the purposes of biogenesis research to limit the discussion to the simplest life forms. This type of reduction is necessary in order to be able to make a clear division between inanimate and animate objects. Even for reduced systems , the boundaries between the two become unclear, as shown by the example of viruses. A definition of minimal life makes it possible to ignore the complex properties of higher living organisms, such as consciousness, intelligence or ethics. 

The Fermi paradox relates to the question as to whether intelligent life exists somewhere in space. But of course ETI species would need to be able to make themselves known by means of technical signals for us to detect their existence. Let us, however, pose the question as to whether life itself, including the most primitive life forms, is really to be found somewhere else in the universe such systems, however small, would have to satisfy the conditions so far defined for the term life (see Sect. 1.4). 

We form a quotient when dividing one thing by another. We meet the word frequently when discussing a person s IQ, their intelligence quotient, which we define as (a person s score in an intelligence test 4- the average score) x 100. 

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