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The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2011
The superposition of acoustical modes radiated from a transducer can provide directionality from a compact projector. This paper presents the foundation, as well as examples, of piezoelectric ceramic, piezoelectric single crystal, and magnetostrictive versions of this “modal projector.” Measured and analytical, as well as finite element analysis ...
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The superposition of acoustical modes radiated from a transducer can provide directionality from a compact projector. This paper presents the foundation, as well as examples, of piezoelectric ceramic, piezoelectric single crystal, and magnetostrictive versions of this “modal projector.” Measured and analytical, as well as finite element analysis ...
Alexander L. Butler +2 more
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Modal Mereology and Modal Supervenience
Philosophical Studies, 2010David Lewis insists that restrictivist composition must be motivated by and occur due to some intuitive desiderata for a relation R among parts that compose wholes, and insists that a restrictivist’s relation R must be vague. Peter van Inwagen agrees. In this paper, I argue that restrictivists need not use such examples of relation R as a criterion for
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Modals as Predicates of Modal Objects
2016This talk will outline a novel semantics of modals based not on possible worlds and quantifiers ranging over them, but on what I will call ‘modal objects’, entities of the sort of permissions, obligations, needs, abilities, and essences. According to that semantics, modal predicates take modal objects as their implicit (Davidsonian)
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Modal Realism, Modal Rationalism, Modal Naturalism
2012This chapter summarizes the accounts of modal realism, modal rationalism, and modal naturalism. It details the author's attempt to develop a framework that is compatible with the denial of actualist accounts of modality. It also alludes to some ways that the contrast between modal naturalism and modal rationalism connects with many of the issues that ...
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Synthese, 2008
Kripke claims that there are necessary a posteriori truths and contingent a priori truths. These claims challenge the traditional Kantian view that (K) All knowledge of necessary truths is a priori and all a priori knowledge is of necessary truths.
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Kripke claims that there are necessary a posteriori truths and contingent a priori truths. These claims challenge the traditional Kantian view that (K) All knowledge of necessary truths is a priori and all a priori knowledge is of necessary truths.
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2009
The findings of the present study of selected modals and quasi-modals in matching corpora of Australian, New Zealand, British and American English reinforce those of diachronic investigations attesting to the rising popularity of the quasi-modals and declining fortunes of the modals in recent decades.
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The findings of the present study of selected modals and quasi-modals in matching corpora of Australian, New Zealand, British and American English reinforce those of diachronic investigations attesting to the rising popularity of the quasi-modals and declining fortunes of the modals in recent decades.
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Modal objects or modal quantifiers?
Theoretical Linguistics, 2020Paul Portner, Aynat Rubinstein
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1990
The purpose of this note is to clarify and relate various aspects of nondeterminacy in programming. We concentrate on the relationship between relational semantics and predicate transformer semantics. Up till recently, these two approaches were carefully kept consistent, in the sense that the predicate transformers can be defined in terms of the ...
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The purpose of this note is to clarify and relate various aspects of nondeterminacy in programming. We concentrate on the relationship between relational semantics and predicate transformer semantics. Up till recently, these two approaches were carefully kept consistent, in the sense that the predicate transformers can be defined in terms of the ...
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