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Reliability, Validity, and Veridicality of Questionnaire Items
, 1978 There are several defensible procedures for obtaining information on the reliability and validity of questionnaire items. These procedures are useful but insufficient in determining the psychometric characteristics of single questions. Greater attention
Lewis R. Aiken
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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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Non-veridicality in Habitual Context: Analysing the role of complex predicates in NPI Licensing
, 2021 This paper presents a semantic-pragmatic analysis of the habitual aspect as a licensing context for Negative Polarity Items (NPIs). Further, we analyse why complex predicates (V1 + V2) in the habitual aspect form a better licensing context for NPIs than ...
Sharma, Vyom
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Memory, 2021 Intrusive mental images associated with autobiographical memories or depicting imagined scenes are common in psychological disorders. Although there is a growing body of literature on their contribution to psychopathology and their role in therapy, to date there have been limited attempts to categorise the different types of images that patients ...
Soljana Çili, Lusia Stopa
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Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Causalists contend that you see a specific object (rather than a lookalike, or no object at all) because that object sits at the beginning of an appropriate causal chain that terminates in your visual experience. We argue that neither standard causalists nor their non‐causalist opponents can adequately accommodate a striking asymmetry between ...
Dominic Alford‐Duguid, Umrao Sethi
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A truth and Veridicality in Grammar and Thought: Mood, Modality, and Propositional Attitudes
, 2021 International audienceCan language directly access what is true, or is the truth judgment affected by the subjective, perhaps even solipsistic, constructs of reality built by the speakers of that language?
Mari, Alda, Giannakidou, Anastasia
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Vision Research, 1996 We investigated motion perception in peripheral vision (10-40 deg eccentricity) for drifting gratings above and below the Nyquist limit set by neural sampling of the retinal image. We found that psychometric functions for motion discrimination rarely exhibited worse-than-chance performance indicative of motion reversal.
Wang, Yi-Zhong +2 more
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Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite the fact that the concept of categoricity is ubiquitous in contemporary metaphysics, it is hard to find a suitable characterization of categoricity. I hold that the absence of such a characterization is responsible for much confusion and debate regarding categorical properties and their relationship to dispositions.
Sungho Choi
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Mixed (Non)veridicality and mood choice with emotive verbs
, 2015 International audienceThe paper proposes a fresh look at emotive factives and explains variation in mood choice across languages by distinguishing nonveridicality in the assertion (triggering the subjunctive) and veridicality in the presupposition ...
Mari, Alda, Giannakidou, Anastasia
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Dogmatism and Easy Knowledge: Avoiding the Dialectic?
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper analyzes and objects to the anti‐skeptical strategy endorsed by Epistemological Dogmatism. Dogmatism is a theory of epistemic justification that holds perceptual warrant for our beliefs is immediate, based on experiential seemings. Crucially, it rejects requests for higher‐order justification or active defense of the justification ...
Guido Tana
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