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A cognitive-pragmatic view of the French epistemic future [PDF]
Journal of French Language Studies, 2011 ABSTRACTIn this paper, we review the various types of epistemic usages of the (simple and anterior) future tenses in French with the assumption that what actually licenses their occurrence is not a semantic feature such as aspect but pragmatic effects that give relevance to the utterance at the moment of speech.
DE SAUSSURE, LOUIS, MORENCY, PATRICK
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Hawking Radiation and Analogue Experiments: A Bayesian Analysis [PDF]
, 2015 We present a Bayesian analysis of the epistemology of analogue experiments with particular reference to Hawking radiation. First, we prove that such experiments can be confirmatory in Bayesian terms based upon appeal to 'universality arguments'.
Dardashti, Radin +3 more
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The future of cognitive science is pluralistic, but what does that mean?
Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia, 2023 We imagine the future of cognitive science by first considering its past, which shows remarkable transformation from a field that, although interdisciplinary, was initially marked by a narrow set of assumptions concerning its subject matter.
Lisa M. Osbeck, Saulo de Freitas Araujo
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The Role of Bio-Ontologies in Data-Driven Research: A Philosophical Perspective [PDF]
, 2009 This project aims to reach a philosophical understanding of the role played by theory in the practices of data dissemination and re-use that characterise data-driven research.
Sabina Leonelli
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Societies, 2023 Translingual students’ identities transcend multiple languages and cultural allegiances. Sociolinguistics widely discusses the linguistic and racial oppressions these students face in schools due to epistemic racism, which is often observed in the ...
Madjiguene Salma Bah Fall
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Hidden protocols: Modifying our expectations in an evolving world [PDF]
, 2014 When agents know a protocol, this leads them to have expectations about future observations. Agents can update their knowledge by matching their actual observations with the expected ones. They eliminate states where they do not match.
Ghosh, Sujata +3 more
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What the Future ‘Might’ Brings [PDF]
, 2020 This paper concerns a puzzle about the interaction of epistemic modals and future tense. In cases of predictable forgetfulness, speakers cannot describe their future states of mind with epistemic modals under future tense, but promising theories of ...
Boylan, David
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Belief as Willingness to Bet [PDF]
, 2014 We investigate modal logics of high probability having two unary modal operators: an operator $K$ expressing probabilistic certainty and an operator $B$ expressing probability exceeding a fixed rational threshold $c\geq\frac 12$.
Renne, Bryan, van Eijck, Jan
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Authority and Trust: Reflections on Linda Zagzebski’s Epistemic Autohrity [PDF]
, 2014 Our modern egalitarian and individualistic age is suspicious of authority, and in recent times there have been almost daily reports in the press of cases where trust in various authorities, including financial, governmental, political and religious, has ...
Cottingham, John
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Intrinsic randomness in epidemic modelling beyond statistical uncertainty
Communications Physics, 2023 Uncertainty can be classified as either aleatoric (intrinsic randomness) or epistemic (imperfect knowledge of parameters). The majority of frameworks assessing infectious disease risk consider only epistemic uncertainty.
Matthew J. Penn +9 more
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