PSR, Modal Collapse, and Open Future in Ibn Sīnā's Philosophy
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT It has been contended that the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) implies necessitarianism—that is, the view that everything occurs out of necessity. Discussing a well‐known argument for this claim developed by contemporary metaphysicians, I show that Ibn Sīnā has anticipated a counterpart of this argument, and that is precisely why he is ...
Mohammad Saleh Zarepour
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Why and How Did Narrative Fictions Evolve? Fictions as Entertainment Technologies. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2022 Dubourg E, Baumard N.
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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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Making up numbers in Pano languages: idiosyncratic and unconventional base-free quantification inventories in Amazonia. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol SciZariquiey R +3 more
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Lagged atmospheric circulation response in the Black Sea region to Greenland Interstadial 10. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2020 Czymzik M +6 more
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The geography and development of language isolates. [PDF]
R Soc Open Sci, 2021 Urban M.
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The transportation of embedded inversion in world Englishes
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract The present study uses private correspondence to investigate the use of embedded inversion on both sides of the Atlantic as an illustration of the spread of spoken/conversational features through writing. The paper discusses the use of embedded inversion in Irish English (IrE) and briefly compares its occurrence in other varieties of English ...
Carolina P. Amador‐Moreno
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The natural stability of autonomous morphology: how an attraction-repulsion dynamic emerges from paradigm cell filling. [PDF]
Morphology (Dordr)Round E, Esher L, Beniamine S.
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Modal verbs in South Asian online Englishes: must, (have) got to, have to and need to
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract This research article presents an analysis of four (semi‐)modals of necessity/obligation (must, (have) got to, have to and need to) in four CMC registers (comments, tweets, web forums and websites) originating from four South Asian countries (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) along with the United Kingdom and United States.
Muhammad Shakir
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