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ABSTRACT “Almost everyone,” Ronald Dworkin wrote in Sovereign Virtue, “assumes that democracy means equal voting power.” What, then, is voting power? The standard view defines it as the probability that a vote changes the outcome assuming that each possible combination of votes is equiprobable.
Daniel Wodak
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No puzzles about truth for nonrealist cognitivism
Abstract Derek Parfit defended a metaethical theory which he calls nonrealist cognitivism. According to this theory, there are irreducibly normative truths that stand without ontological implications. A lot of literature has been dedicated to raising puzzles about the coherency of such a theory. The aim of this article is to solve a puzzle specifically
Evan Jack, Mustafa Khuramy
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What Connects Biolinguistics and Biosemiotics?
This paper reviews the background, fundamental questions, current issues, and goals of the intellectual movements initiated by Noam Chomsky’s biolinguistics and Thomas A. Sebeok’s (1920-2001) biosemiotics.
Prisca Augustyn
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The Legal, Ethical, and Social Implications of the Reasonable Woman Standard in Sexual Harassment Cases [PDF]
In this Article, Professors Adler and Peirce examine the development and implications of the reasonable woman standard that is gaining increasing acceptance as the appropriate gauge for measuring the offensiveness of the conduct at issue in sexual ...
Adler, Robert S., Peirce, Ellen R.
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La représentation diagrammatique chez Peirce et Wittgenstein : quelques remarques sur une ressemblance de famille [PDF]
François Latraverse
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Abstract Past research suggests that Working Memory plays a role in determining relative clause attachment bias. Disambiguation preferences may further depend on Processing Speed and explicit memory demands in linguistic tasks. Given that Working Memory and Processing Speed decline with age, older adults offer a way of investigating the factors ...
Willem S. van Boxtel, Laurel A. Lawyer
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Holomorphic isometries from the unit ball into symmetric domains
We construct isometric holomorphic embeddings of the unit ball into higher rank symmetric domains, first discovered by Mok, in an explicit way using Jordan triple systems, and prove uniqueness results for all domains, including the exceptional domains of
Upmeier, Harald +2 more
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Language machines: Toward a linguistic anthropology of large language models
Abstract Large language models (LLMs) challenge long‐standing assumptions in linguistics and linguistic anthropology by generating human‐like language without relying on rule‐based structures. This introduction to the special issue Language Machines calls for renewed engagement with LLMs as socially embedded language technologies.
Siri Lamoureaux +2 more
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C. S. Peirce y la abducción de Dios [PDF]
La atención relativamente escasa que los estudiosos del filósofo y científico norteamericano Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914) han prestado a lo largo de los años a las dimensiones religiosas de su pensamiento siempre me ha parecido cuando menos sorprendente.
Nubiola, Jaime
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