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Intuitionistic Fuzzy Decision Tree Temporal Logic and Its Application in Engineering Decision-Making

Axioms
This paper investigates engineering decision optimization in uncertain environments. Subject to constraints on cost and expected returns, engineering decisions optimize material input, equipment selection and process arrangement to minimize costs and ...
Xianfeng Yu, Jianhua Zhao, Famin Ma, Lei Wang, Huirong Li   +4 more
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An Automated Fault Tree Generation Approach With Fault Configuration Based on Model Checking

IEEE Access, 2018
Fault tree generation technology is a key issue for safety analysis of large complex systems. Traditional safety analysis methods usually describe the origin, propagation, or concrete behavior of the fault and do not portray the constraints between ...
Lisong Wang, Sijie Li, Ou Wei, Mingyu Huang, Jun Hu   +4 more
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Contingent Grounding Physicalism

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT It is widely held that physicalism is incompatible with the metaphysical possibility of zombies, i.e., beings physically just like us yet lacking in phenomenal consciousness. The present paper argues that this orthodoxy is mistaken. As against the received wisdom, physicalism is perfectly compatible with the possibility of zombies and zombie ...
Alex Moran
wiley   +1 more source

Room for Improvement: Why Finitist Arguments Do Not Check Out

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine several new and underexplored arguments for the finitude of the past and the impossibility of Hilbert's Hotel. The first argument concludes that Hilbert's Hotel is impossible due to an alleged contradiction arising from the causal powers of infinitely many guests.
Joseph C. Schmid, Troy Dana
wiley   +1 more source

How Many Worlds Could There Be? David Lewis and Advanced Modalizing

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Advanced modalizing, namely, possibilities and necessities concerning modal space itself, is problematic for a Lewis‐style analysis of modality. A popular solution, proposed by Divers, postulates explicit semantic clauses for a collapse of advanced modalizing, to the conclusion that all such matters are, if true in the first place, both ...
Lorenzo Azzano, Ciro De Florio, Aldo Frigerio   +2 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

The Question of Referentiality

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Most theorists have offered different accounts of reference fixing for names, demonstratives, and indexicals. Indeed, this variety can seem an inevitable response to a certain class of hard cases. Here, I will offer a unified account of reference fixing equally capable of handling these cases.
Eliot Michaelson
wiley   +1 more source

Determined Proper Nouns in Rioplatense Spanish express interpersonal proximity

Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics
Following the referentialist view on proper nouns, based on  Kripke (1980),  they are expressions of type ,  pointing out to entities  directly, without providing a description of those  entities (cf.
Carolina Oggiani, Ana Aguilar Guevara
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On the Limits of Intransitive Coordination

Ratio, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A growing number of authors suggest that concept coordination—the kind of relation we pick out when we say that the concepts of one or more individuals represent something as the same—is not a transitive relation. Here we consider global features of representational systems to break new ground in the assessment of the intransitivity view. From
Víctor M. Verdejo, Joost J. Joosten
wiley   +1 more source

Winged horses, rascals and discourse referents

Theoria, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper discusses some remarks Kaplan made in ‘Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice’ concerning empty names. I show how his objections to a particular view involving descriptions derived from Ramsification can be avoided by a nearby alternative framed in terms of discourse reference.
Andreas Stokke
wiley   +1 more source