The semantics, sociolinguistics, and origins of double modals in American English: New insights from social media. [PDF]
Morin C, Grieve J.
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Abstract In this paper, we explore the tension between the KK thesis and an attractive principle concerning the assertability of conditionals. We explore the prospects for defending the KK thesis against the problems posed, and conclude that they are dim.
John Hawthorne, Yoaav Isaacs
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Interpretable and integrative deep learning for discovering brain-behaviour associations. [PDF]
Ambroise C +3 more
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How to make people do things with words
Abstract Sometimes we do what other people tell us to. A natural thought is that the motivation to act on an instruction comes about rationally as the result of interpreting an imperative and deciding to act on it; that is, by updating on information that gets mediated through belief‐desire reasoning.
Henry Schiller, Shaun Nichols
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Natural Language Processing (NLP): Identifying Linguistic Gender Bias in Electronic Medical Records (EMRs). [PDF]
Xu S, Sun M.
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Can we repudiate ontology altogether?
Abstract Ontological nihilists repudiate ontology altogether, maintaining that ontological structure is an unnecessary addition to our theorizing. Recent defenses of the view involve a sophisticated combination of highly expressive but ontologically innocent languages combined with a metaphysics of features—non‐objectual, complete but modifiable states
Christopher J. Masterman
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Introducing ActiveInference.jl: A Julia Library for Simulation and Parameter Estimation with Active Inference Models. [PDF]
Nehrer SW +5 more
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Symmetry lost: A modal ontological argument for atheism?
Abstract The modal ontological argument for God's existence faces a symmetry problem: a seemingly equally plausible reverse modal ontological argument can be given for God's nonexistence. Here, we argue that there are significant asymmetries between the modal ontological argument and its reverse that render the latter more compelling than the former ...
Peter Fritz +2 more
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TMU-Net: A Transformer-Based Multimodal Framework with Uncertainty Quantification for Driver Fatigue Detection. [PDF]
Zhang Y, Xu X, Du Y, Zhang N.
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Social movements and the synecdoche problem
Abstract Social movements are central to our contemporary understanding of social change. Accordingly, we should want to be able to say what it is that makes social movements special; that is, to say what it is that movements in their entirety have that random samples of people and organizations within the movement do not have.
Megan Hyska
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