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Questions and Answers about Oppositions [PDF]
, 2011 A general characterization of logical opposition is given in the present paper, where oppositions are defined by specific answers in an algebraic question-answer game. It is shown that opposition is essentially a semantic relation of truth values between
Schang, Fabien
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Reasoning about Minimal Belief and Negation as Failure
, 2011 We investigate the problem of reasoning in the propositional fragment of MBNF, the logic of minimal belief and negation as failure introduced by Lifschitz, which can be considered as a unifying framework for several nonmonotonic formalisms, including ...
Rosati, R.
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, 2009 I present an analysis of the notion of epistemic modalities, based on an appropriate interpretation of two basic constructivist issues: verification and epistemic agency. Starting from an historical analysis of conditions for judgments, I analyze first the reading of necessity with respect to apodictic judgements, and then that of possibility with ...
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.What does it take to turn a tool into a talking tool and that into an ultimate authority? Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in its diverse forms, such as large language models (LLMs), is celebrated as a useful tool. But LLM‐based conversational agents, or chatbots, the software applications through which ordinary users are likely to engage ...
Webb Keane
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Aximo: automated axiomatic reasoning for information update
, 2007 Aximo is a software written in C++ that verifies epistemic properties of dynamic scenarios in multi-agent systems. The underlying logic of our tool is based on the algebraic axiomatics of Dynamic Epistemic Logic. We also present a new theoretical result:
Richards, Simon, Sadrzadeh, Mehrnoosh
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, 2005 Abstract In the 1970s David Lewis argued for a contextualist treatment of modals (Lewis, 1976, 1979a). Although Lewis was primarily interested in modals connected with freedom and metaphysical possibility, his arguments for contextualism could easily be taken to support contextualism about epistemic modals.
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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2025.Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
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A contrastive analysis of epistemic modality in scientific English
Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos, 2015 This paper investigates the use of epistemic expressions in scientific English. The main aim of this research is to analyse if native speakers of English use epistemic modality in the same way than non-native speakers of English and to detect the most ...
María Luisa Carrió Pastor
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Expressions of epistemic modality in Mainland Scandinavian [PDF]
, 2012 In dit proefschrift wordt een vergelijkende corpusstudie naar het ontstaan van epistemische uitdrukkingen beschreven en geanalyseerd in relatie tot verschillende typen taalverandering, te weten lexicalisatie, grammaticaIisatie en pragmaticaJisatie.
Beijering, Karin,
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Writing Against the Machine: Computational Authorship and Historical Writing
History, EarlyView.Abstract Historians generate knowledge through the labour of composition – through the friction between interpretation and evidence that makes claims open to scrutiny and challenge. This essay argues that when composition is bypassed, that structure disappears. Generative AI raises this issue in urgent fashion.
CHRISTOPHER GERTEIS
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