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The concept of musical science as a behavioral science is developed. Such a science is a (comprehensive) theory of music whose task it is to elaborate explicit connections between the systemic properties of sonic designs (as researched by a theory of sonic artifacts) and the properties of the perceptual and intellectual processes underlying the generation and recognition of such artifacts (as researched by a theory of musical cognition). Ideas concerning the theory of music are developed as the meta‐theoretical base of a theory musical cognition. They concern a scientific epistemology of music. In the main body of the essay, the domain and the methods of a theory of musical cognition are discussed. As an example of the actual implementation of such a theory, the system called OBSERVER is discussed and its resources for musical protocol analysis and for musical sufficiency analysis are documented. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Logical principles, in particular the law of noncontradiction and the law of exclusion of middle term, play different roles at different levels of discourse: valid formulae in an axiomatic calculus, methodological requirements (of consistency and completeness) for formalized systems. When postulated as formal laws, - pvp and -( p·-p), they are totally interdefinable and equivalent as well (DeMorgan's transformations are proof of this). If postulated as methodological requirements, the principles are not equivalent, although they could still be said in some sense to be interdefinable (the existence of consistent yet incomplete systems shows that the requirements are not equivalent; still, completeness of a system can be defined in terms of consistency of another system which keeps a definite relationship with the first one). There exists a third level of discourse: scientific praxis. At this level, the principles come even farther apart: they neither have the same logical value nor is one definable in terms of the other. However, they keep a family resemblance which justifies our dealing with them jointly. Let us call the principles at this level pragmatic imperatives. They deal with paradoxes, which are of two types: knots (conflicts) and blanks (gaps in the scientific pattern). The left-hand pragmatic imperative says: 'Be intolerant with knots, try to remove (dissolve) them'. The right-hand pragmatic imperative says: 'Try to remove (fill) all blanks'. The knot-removing and the blank-dissolving imperatives are prior to and more important than the laws of noncontradiction and excluded middle and the requirements of consistency and completeness. Logical principles are not prime categories: pragmatic imperatives are primordial. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents a glossary to the March 1969 issue of the journal "Chinese Sociology and Anthropology."

Focuses on the relationship between communication research and notion of process. Views of scientist Isaac Newton regarding the principle of process; Definitions of process in the communication literature; Concept of process defined by communication theorist David Berlo.

Preparation of test corpora by computer simulation avoids the expense of converting real text to machine-sensible format and forces the experimenter to explicate the basic assumptions underlying his keyword-selection strategies. Its use permits unidimensional, quantitative, low-variance measurement of the relative effectiveness of alternative selection criteria. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]