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Displacement and quantification without representation
Perry and Recanati have argued that thought and speech can concern entities that they do not represent. This is possible because speakers and thinkers are pragmatically situated within their environs. I argue that thought and speech can go much farther than that.
Mihnea Capraru
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In defense of value incomparability: A reply to Dorr, Nebel, and Zuehl
Abstract Cian Dorr, Jacob Nebel, and Jake Zuehl have argued that no objects are incomparable in value. One set of arguments they offer depart from a principle they call ‘Strong Monotonicity’, which states that if x is good and y is not good, then x is better than y.
Erik Carlson, Olle Risberg
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A crisis of authority in scientific discourse. [PDF]
Nichols MD, Petzold AM.
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Enhancing the Compilation of Synchronous Dataflow Programs with a Combined Numerical-Boolean Abstraction [PDF]
RR version = http://hal.inria.fr/hal-00780521/enInternational audienceIn this paper, we propose an enhancement of the compilation of synchronous programs with a combined numerical-Boolean abstraction.
Feautrier, Paul +2 more
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A Fair Power Domain for Actor Computations [PDF]
This report describes research done at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Support for the laboratory's artificial intelligence research is provided in part by the Office of Naval Research of the ...
Clinger, Will
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Programming and Proving with Distributed Protocols [PDF]
Distributed systems play a crucial role in modern infrastructure, but are notoriously difficult to implement correctly. This difficulty arises from two main challenges: (a) correctly implementing core system components (e.g., two-phase commit), so all ...
Sergey, I, Tatlock, Z, Wilcox, JR
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Inducing a Semantically Annotated Lexicon via EM-Based Clustering
We present a technique for automatic induction of slot annotations for subcategorization frames, based on induction of hidden classes in the EM framework of statistical estimation.
Beil, Franz +4 more
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The article reviews the conceptual foundations of advertising polysemy – the occurrence of different interpretations for the same advertising message. We discuss how disciplines as diverse as psychology, semiotics and literary theory have dealt with the ...
Puntoni, S. (Stefano) +2 more
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What to Read: A Biased Guide to AI Literacy for the Beginner [PDF]
Acknowledgements. It was Ken Forbus' idea, and he, Howie Shrobe, Dan Weld, and John Batali read various drafts. Dan Huttenlocher and Tom Knight helped with the speech recognition section.
Agre, Philip E.
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The article reviews the conceptual foundations of advertising polysemy – the occurrence of different interpretations for the same advertising message.
Puntoni, S., Ritson, M., Schroeder, J.E.
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