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Sufficient Reason Vindicated

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT I give an argument for a version of the principle of sufficient reason from several plausible principles about negative facts and sufficient conditions. I then give an argument for a slightly weaker version of the principle without the reference to negative facts.
Stephen Harrop
wiley   +1 more source

The CLEAR Principle: organizing data and metadata into semantically meaningful types of FAIR Digital Objects to increase their human explorability and cognitive interoperability. [PDF]

J Biomed Semantics
Vogt L.
europepmc   +1 more source

AI Alignment Versus AI Ethical Treatment: 10 Challenges

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A morally acceptable course of AI development should avoid two dangers: creating unaligned AI systems that pose a threat to humanity and mistreating AI systems that merit moral consideration in their own right. This paper argues these two dangers interact and that if we create AI systems that merit moral consideration, simultaneously avoiding ...
Adam Bradley, Bradford Saad
wiley   +1 more source

A semantic approach to mapping the Provenance Ontology to Basic Formal Ontology. [PDF]

Sci Data
Prudhomme T, De Colle G, Liebers A, Sculley A, Xie PK, Cohen S, Beverley J.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Laws and Reasons Why

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Laws play some role in explanations: at the very least, they somehow connect what is explained, or the explanandum, to what explains, or the explanans. Thus, thermodynamical laws connect the match's being struck and its lightning, so that the former causes the latter; and laws about set formation connect Socrates' existence with {Socrates}'s ...
Julio De Rizzo
wiley   +1 more source

Quantifiers for a Modal Future

Philosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Future auxiliaries present a challenge to the classical analysis of modal expressions as existential or universal quantifiers over a contextually provided set of possible worlds: these expressions come with a distinct modal flavor, but their interaction with negation and the fact that future judgments come in degrees of confidence is ...
Malte Willer
wiley   +1 more source

Decomposing logophoric pronouns: a presuppositional account of logophoric dependencies. [PDF]

Nat Lang Semant
Bassi I, Driemel I, Bimpeh AA, Silleresi S, Ilọri JF, Nuworsu A, Nweya GO.   +6 more
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Inquiry and Logical Form

Philosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Joint inquiry requires agents to exchange public content about some target domain, which in turn requires them to track which content a linguistic form contributes to a conversation. But, often, the inquiry delivers a necessary truth. For example, if we are inquiring whether a particular bird, Tweety, is a woodpecker, and discover that it is ...
Una Stojnić, Matthew Stone
wiley   +1 more source

Process Algebraic Approach for Probabilistic Verification of Safety and Security Requirements of Smart IoT (Internet of Things) Systems in Digital Twin. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel)
Song J, Lee S, Karagiannis D, Lee M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Symbolic racism against black people among black and white Americans: A system justification account

Political Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Using three nationally representative, probability samples of Americans (Ns range from 848 to 20,728), we examined the endorsement of symbolic racism against Black people among both Black and White Americans through the lens of system justification.
Alexandra Suppes, Jaime L. Napier, P. J. Henry, Kodai Kusano   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source