Blameworthiness of an agent or a coalition of agents is often defined in terms of the principle of alternative possibilities: for the coalition to be responsible for an outcome, the outcome must take place and the coalition should have had a strategy to ...
Naumov, Pavel, Tao, Jia
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The Trajectory of an Agreement: Tracing Objectivated Knowledge Across a Series of Mundane Encounters
This article adds to the sociological study of time and temporality in everyday life by building on recent longitudinal developments within conversation analysis. It investigates members' methods to bring about change within their shared (life) world. It examines how, as part of an extended project of action, one agreement made early on is continually ...
Sarah Hitzler, Jonas Kramer
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Logic of Non-Monotonic Interactive Proofs (Formal Theory of Temporary Knowledge Transfer)
We propose a monotonic logic of internalised non-monotonic or instant interactive proofs (LiiP) and reconstruct an existing monotonic logic of internalised monotonic or persistent interactive proofs (LiP) as a minimal conservative extension of LiiP ...
Kramer, Simon
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Identification of Missing Knowledge in MBSE System Models Using Graph‐Based Machine Learning
ABSTRACT The design and development of complex aerospace systems pose significant challenges due to their growing complexity. Iterative design processes, guided by formal specifications, strive to refine initially vague characteristics through multiple stages.
Esma Karagoz +2 more
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A Comparative Analysis of Epistemic and Root Modality in Two selected English Books in the Field of Applied Linguistics Written by English Native and Iranian Non-native Writers [PDF]
Academic discourse has always been the focus of many linguists, especially those who have been involved with English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and discourse analysis.
Minoo Shahmohammadi, Nasser Ghafoori
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Grammaticalization, polysemy and iterated modality: the case of should.
This article addresses the question of iterated modality from the twofold perspective of grammaticalization and polysemy through the semantic description of various uses of should in contemporary English, and more particularly that of “meditative-polemic
Viviane Arigne
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Why Do Minoritized Students Deploy More Than One Language During a Physics Inquiry?
ABSTRACT We present a study that documented the participation of two high school Arab students in Israel in an extended (2‐year) authentic physics inquiry that took place in a regional program located in a Hebrew‐speaking kibbutz high school. The students' first language is Arabic, but they are fluent in Hebrew, and their inquiry was mentored by a ...
Lulu Garah, Shulamit Kapon
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Epistemic Assessment and Pragmatic Factors of Its Motivation in the Reportage News Text
Within this publication attempts are made to explore the pragmatic factors that motivate the use of epistemic modal means in the context of news reportage messages. News reports are viewed as a special type of mass media discourse.
Yana S. Kosyakova
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A plea for a modal realist epistemology [PDF]
David Lewis’s genuine modal realism postulates the existence of concrete possible worlds that are spatio-temporally discontinuous with the concrete world we inhabit. How, then, can we have modal knowledge?
Bueno, O., Shalkowski, S.
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This paper argues that we should assign certainty a central place in epistemology. While epistemic certainty played an important role in the history of epistemology, recent epistemology has tended to dismiss certainty as an unattainable ideal, focusing ...
Beddor, Bob
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