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How generics obscure the logic of conditionals
Mind &Language, EarlyView.This paper discusses counter‐examples to modus ponens and modus tollens involving modals and quantificational adverbs, and presents new counter‐examples with generic conditionals. We argue that the counter‐examples are spurious, and are explained by the domain‐restricting effects of if‐clauses.
Daniel Lassiter +3 more
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Ostensive communication in great apes: The evolution of Gricean intent
Mind &Language, EarlyView.I discuss the evolution of ostensive behaviours (behaviours that display the communicative intent to influence others through the perception of signals and actions addressed to them). Ostensive communication evolved out of evolutionary adaptations to the challenges and opportunities created by the evolutionary scenario of the meeting of ...
Juan Carlos Gómez
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Extensions of nominal terms [PDF]
, 2011 This thesis studies two major extensions of nominal terms. In particular, we study an extension with -abstraction over nominal unknowns and atoms, and an extension with an arguably better theory of freshness and -equivalence.
Mulligan, Dominic Phillip
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Inferential communication: The primacy of external representations
Mind &Language, EarlyView.We argue that intentionalist accounts of ostensive‐inferential communication fail to adequately explain the role of external representations in human communication. We propose that the contents of a specific form of representational communication, symbolic depictions via spatio‐temporal arrangements of objects, can be inferred without attributing ...
Nima Mussavifard, Gergely Csibra
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Uang panai' in the Bugis tribal marriage tradition, as a barometer of triggering the birth of various problems among the community, especially the youth because of its high value. Problem formulation: 1) what is the tradition of money panai' at the Bugis
Azisa, Wafik
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The Modern Language Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examined how online writing behaviors aggregated at the pair level were related to writing outcomes in computer‐assisted collaborative writing and how task complexity moderated these relationships. The participants were 56 Chinese university students with advanced English proficiency. They were randomly organized into 28 pairs. Each
Xin Rong
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Fantasies of the Dialectical Imagination: a Response to James Davis
Music Analysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article responds to the various criticisms raised against my work on the nature and function of music analysis by James Davis in his article ‘Against the New Musical Idealism: Or, Listening for What May Be Otherwise’, Music Analysis, 45/i (2026).
Julian Horton
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Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT I argue that knowledge plays a distinctive role in psychological explanation that weaker epistemic states cannot because it is robust in the face of counterevidence in a way that they are not. Being robust in the face of counterevidence makes your belief robust in the face of counterargument.
Spencer Paulson
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Life, but Not as We Know It: Why Fine‐Tuning Arguments Fail
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Definitions of “life” and theories of life are systematically neglected in arguments for and from fine‐tuning. Despite claims to be neutral about the definition of “life,” fine‐tuning arguments generally presuppose that life requires a form of structural complexity only afforded by physicochemical complexity of the sort with which we are ...
Joe Gough
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Obesity Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background The efficacy of individual cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) components for managing pediatric obesity remains unclear. This study systematically evaluated the impacts of CBT and its constituent techniques in this population. Method We searched PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane CENTRAL from inception to July 17, 2024, for randomized ...
Xinran Xie +27 more
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