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Any and its ‘free choice’

Kalbotyra
Since Ladusaw (1979) the term ‘free choice indefinite’ is the generally accepted term for the meaning of any in primarily modal and generic sentences, such as Any owl hunts mice, but not for what is generally called the ‘polarity-sensitive’ or ‘negative
Johan van der Auwera
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Quantum communication through devices with indefinite input-output direction

New Journal of Physics, 2023
Certain quantum devices, such as half-wave plates and quarter-wave plates in quantum optics, are bidirectional, meaning that the roles of their input and output ports can be exchanged.
Zixuan Liu, Ming Yang, Giulio Chiribella
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The Pondicherry interpretation of quantum mechanics [PDF]

, 1999
This article presents a novel interpretation of quantum mechanics. It extends the meaning of ``measurement'' to include all property-indicating facts. Intrinsically space is undifferentiated: there are no points on which a world of locally instantiated ...
Mohrhoff, Ulrich
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Developments in Quantum Probability and the Copenhagen Approach

Entropy, 2018
In the Copenhagen approach to quantum mechanics as characterized by Heisenberg, probabilities relate to the statistics of measurement outcomes on ensembles of systems and to individual measurement events via the actualization of quantum potentiality ...
Gregg Jaeger
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Nieokreśloność a kwantyfikacja: współdziałanie kategorii semantycznych

LingVaria, 2017
Indefiniteness and Quantification: Cooperation of Semantic Categories The author considers the relationship between the category of quantification and the category of definiteness/ indefiniteness.
Aleksander Kiklewicz
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Is Feasibility in Physics Limited by Fantasy Alone? [PDF]

, 2011
Although various limits on the predicability of physical phenomena as well as on physical knowables are commonly established and accepted, we challenge their ultimate validity.
Calude, Cristian S., Svozil, Karl
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Една можна класификација на експонентите на неопределеноста во македонскиот јазик

Slavia Meridionalis, 2018
A possible classification of indefiniteness exponents in Macedonian The concept or category of determinateness finds its grammaticalization in the category of definiteness.
Бобан [Boban] Карапејовски [Karapejovski]
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Tuwim and Witkacy: Visual Translation of 'Kalinowe dwory' [PDF]

, 2016
The article offers a comparative analysis of a lost painting by Witkacy (know only from a photographic reproduction) and a poem by Julian Tuwim. Tuwim’s poem inspired Witkacy to create his work.
Polit, Paweł
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The Realization of (In)definiteness in Russian

Poljarnyj Vestnik: Norwegian Journal of Slavic Studies, 1999
How are indefiniteness and definiteness realized formally in Russian? This article discusses the question with regard to word order, case-marking and pronouns.
Tore Nesset
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The existential in Xhosa in relation to indefiniteness

Studies in African Linguistics, 2020
Bare nouns in languages without articles can be semantically ambiguous between definite and indefinite interpretations. It is here assumed that speakers of such languages can still signal to the hearer when they refer to unique and identifiable referents.
Eva-Marie Bloom Ström
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