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Reasons, rationality, and opaque sweetening: Hare's “No Reason” argument for taking the sugar
Noûs, EarlyView.Abstract Caspar Hare presents a compelling argument for “taking the sugar” in cases of opaque sweetening: you have no reason to take the unsweetened option, and you have some reason to take the sweetened one. I argue that this argument fails—there is a perfectly good sense in which you do have a reason to take the unsweetened option. I suggest a way to
Ryan Doody
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Referentially Used Descriptions: A Reply to Devitt
European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 2007 This paper continues an ongoing debate between Michael Devitt and me on referential uses of definite descriptions. He has argued that definite descriptions have referential meanings, and I have argued that they do not. Having previously rebutted the view
Kent Bach
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L’adjectif appréciatif nice : observations sur la nature variable de la prédication
Corela, 2016 This article is an analysis of the various uses of the qualifying adjective nice : as an attributive adjective standing alone in front of the head noun, or completed by a PP : [with NP] or [of NP] ; as a predicative adjective, and it is then compared ...
Christopher Desurmont
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Sweet as – The [ADJ + as] intensifier construction in Māori English/Aotearoa English
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract We introduce the Waikato Māori English Conversation (MEC) corpus, which consists of 43 dyadic conversations between 49 young adults who self‐recorded informal conversations with close friends, in their own homes, with no topic of conversation specified (83 hours of dialogue; nearly 800,000 words).
Andreea S. Calude, Hēmi Whaanga
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Referential Descriptions: A Note on Bach
European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 2007 Bach fails to give a satisfactory pragmatic account of referential uses of definite descriptions because he does not explain how a description’s quantificational meaning plays a “key role” in those uses.
Michael Devitt
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Semantic syncretism of attributive adverbs of B. Pasternak’s lyrics
Polilog: Studia Neofilologiczne, 2015 Semantic syncretism of attributive adverbs of B. Pasternak’s lyrics The article is devoted to the phenomenon of qualitative-quantitative semantic syncretism and specifics of its manifestation at the level of adverbial lexemes of B.
Viktoria Golubeva
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Innovation infrastructure and innovation climate: innovation development ecosystem
E-Management, 2022 The fourth industrial revolution “Industry 4.0” defines a paradigm shift in technological patterns, requiring the modernization of the institutional environment in the context of the development of end-to-end technologies.
K. Yu. Kulakov +2 more
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Multifont classification using typographical attributes [PDF]
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition. ICDAR '99 (Cat. No.PR00318), 1999 This paper introduces a multifont classification scheme to help with the recognition of multifont and multisize characters. It uses typographical attributes such as ascenders, descenders and serifs obtained from a word image. The attributes are used as an input to a neural network classifier to produce the multifont classification results.
null Min-Chul Jung +2 more
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Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, Volume 42, Issue 2, April 2026.ABSTRACT Background Artificial intelligence (AI), in particular, generative AI, plays an increasingly critical role in education. Studies have shown that learners' positive perception of generative AI‐assisted writing tools can benefit them in their writing processes and outcomes.
Sung‐Hee Jin, Ann Tai Choe
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Referential Descriptions and Conversational Implicatures
European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 2007 The standard Gricean defense of Russell in the face of referential uses of descriptions has been to claim that these uses are conversational implicatures.
Michael Devitt
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