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Can we repudiate ontology altogether?
Noûs, EarlyView.Abstract Ontological nihilists repudiate ontology altogether, maintaining that ontological structure is an unnecessary addition to our theorizing. Recent defenses of the view involve a sophisticated combination of highly expressive but ontologically innocent languages combined with a metaphysics of features—non‐objectual, complete but modifiable states
Christopher J. Masterman
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Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos, 2015 This paper describes the use of perhaps, maybe and possibly in a cross- disciplinary corpus of academic and popularised scientific writing. It accounts for their higher frequency in popularised discourse by investigating their functions in detail.
Elsa Pic, Grégory Furmaniak
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Les adverbes assertifs en espagnol. Étude diachronique (xiiie-xxe siècles)
AtalayaThis presentation summarizes the dissertation of the writer and has recently been defended. In her work, she studies both the diachronic evolution of a group of Spanish modal adverbs that are used by the speaker to reinforce their statement and the ...
Catline Dzelebdzic
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Extending the adverbial coverage of a French morphological lexicon [PDF]
, 2012 International audienceWe present an extension of the adverbial entries of the French morphological lexicon DELA (Dictionnaires Electroniques du LADL / LADL electronic dictionaries). Adverbs were extracted from LGLex, a NLP-oriented syntactic resource for
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In Defense of Comparability: Reply to Carlson and Risberg
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In “The Case for Comparability,” we argue that every comparative expression “F$F$” obeys Comparability: if two things are at least as F$F$ as themselves, then one of them must be at least as F$F$ as the other. One of our arguments appeals to the apparent validity of the Strong Monotonicity schema: x$x$ is F$F$; y$y$ is not F$F$; so, x$x$ is ...
Cian Dorr, Jacob M. Nebel, Jake Zuehl
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Nordic Journal of African StudiesIn Silozi, High tones are subject to a number of different processes including shift, doubling and deletion. After establishing these on the basis of isolation forms and two-word phrases, this paper examines a range of complex phrases which reveals a ...
Lee Bickmore, Kristina Riedel
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Parental Conversation Styles and Learning Science With Preschoolers [PDF]
, 2015 Preschool children participated in a science-learning event about light in their own classroom. The same day as the event, parents or caregivers were instructed to converse with their children at home in the evening about either the science learning ...
Stone, Emily A
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Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT I develop and defend a sense‐datum theory of perception. My theory follows the spirit of classic sense‐datum theories: I argue that what it is to have a perceptual experience is to be acquainted with some sense‐data, where sense‐data are private particulars that have all the properties they appear to have, that are common to both perception ...
Andrew Y. Lee
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Towards Universal Semantic Tagging [PDF]
, 2017 The paper proposes the task of universal semantic tagging---tagging word tokens with language-neutral, semantically informative tags. We argue that the task, with its independent nature, contributes to better semantic analysis for wide-coverage ...
Abzianidze, Lasha, Bos, Johan
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Modal Logic and Modal Metaphysics: An Avicennian Division of Labour
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper argues that Avicenna was both a necessitarian and a realist about contingency. The two aspects of his modal metaphysics are reconciled by arguing that Avicenna's modal metaphysics is founded on realism about essences: strictly speaking, an individual has no contingent properties, but a modal distinction can be made between the ...
Jari Kaukua
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