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Is a time symmetric interpretation of quantum theory possible without retrocausality? [PDF]

, 2016
Huw Price has proposed an argument that suggests a time-symmetric ontology for quantum theory must necessarily be retrocausal, i.e. it must involve influences that travel backwards in time.
Leifer, Matthew, Pusey, Matthew
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The degree of grammaticalization of gotta, gonna, wanna and better: A corpus study

Topics in Linguistics, 2015
The paper studies the degree of grammaticalization of the structures gotta, gonna, wanna and better. The study presumes that the semantics of these structures – more precisely their modal polyfunctionality (i.e.
Machová Dagmar
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TOWARDS EPISTEMIC JUSTICE: DECONSTRUCTING GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE FROM A SOUTHERN PERSPECTIVE

Journal of Social Political Sciences
This article critically examines the dominance of Western epistemology in global knowledge production and its impact on the marginalization of local knowledge in the Global South.
Syamsiah  Badruddin, Paisal Halim, Suci Ayu Kurniah P   +2 more
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Independent natural extension for sets of desirable gambles [PDF]

, 2011
We investigate how to combine a number of marginal coherent sets of desirable gambles into a joint set using the properties of epistemic irrelevance and independence.
De Cooman, Gert, Miranda, Enrique
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The Epistemology of Disagreement: Why Not Bayesianism? [PDF]

, 2021
Disagreement is a ubiquitous feature of human life, and philosophers have dutifully attended to it. One important question related to disagreement is epistemological: How does a rational person change her beliefs (if at all) in light of disagreement from
Mulligan, Thomas
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The Future of Research in Cognitive Robotics: Foundation Models or Developmental Cognitive Models?

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Research in cognitive robotics founded on principles of developmental psychology and enactive cognitive science would yield what we seek in autonomous robots: the ability to perceive its environment, learn from experience, anticipate the outcome of events, act to pursue goals, and adapt to changing circumstances without resorting to training with ...
David Vernon
wiley   +1 more source

An epistemic rationale for order-independence [PDF]

, 2012
The issue of the order-dependence of iterative deletion processes is well-known in the game theory community, and meanwhile conditions on the dominance concept underlying these processes have been detected which ensure order-independence (see e.g.
Trost, Michael
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What to Make and How to Make It: Combining Machine Learning and Statistical Learning to Design New Materials

Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
Combining machine learning and probabilistic statistical learning is a powerful way to discover and design new materials. A variety of machine learning approaches can be used to identify promising candidates for target applications, and causal inference can help identify potential ways to make them a reality.
Jonathan Y. C. Ting, Amanda S. Barnard
wiley   +1 more source

Knowability as Continuity: A Topological Account of Informational Dependence

Logics
We study knowable informational dependence between empirical questions, modeled as continuous functional dependence between variables in a topological setting. We also investigate epistemic independence in topological terms and show that it is compatible
Alexandru Baltag, Johan van Benthem
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Comment représenter la transgression de genre - L'Hermaphrodite dans l'oeuvre de J. K. Huysmans -

Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur, 2012
By the end of the 19th century one may observe the birth of a particular form of knowledge which would further be known as scientia sexualis as well as the rationalization of the hermaphroditic body.
Mihaela Gabriela Stănică
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