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The Ontological Turn Misunderstood: How to Misunderstand David Armstrong’s Theory of Possibility [PDF]
, 2004 This article argues that there is a great divide between semantics and metaphysics. Much of what is called metaphysics today is still stuck in the linguistic turn. This is illustrated by showing how Fraser MacBride misunderstands David Armstrong's theory
Wachter, Daniel von
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Towards a Model of Argument Strength for Bipolar Argumentation Graphs
Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2018 Bipolar argument graphs represent the structure of complex pro and contra arguments for one or more standpoints. In this article, ampliative and exclusionary principles of evaluating argument strength in bipolar acyclic argumentation graphs are laid out ...
Rast Erich
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A possibilistic and probabilistic approach to precautionary saving [PDF]
Panoeconomicus, 2017 This paper proposes two mixed models to study a consumer’s optimal saving in the presence of two types of risk: income risk and background risk. In the first model, income risk is represented by a fuzzy number and background risk by a random variable. In
Georgescu Irina +2 more
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The load-bearing capacity of hanging piles by the strength criterion of a pile or soil material [PDF]
Инженерно-строительный журнал, 2016 The article describes various methods of assessment of load-bearing capacity (reliability) of a pile as a main element of pile foundation. It is shown that deterministic, probabilistic and possibilistic methods have a number of advantages and limitations.
T.V. Ivanova +3 more
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A Confidence Set Analysis for Observed Samples: A Fuzzy Set Approach
Entropy, 2016 Confidence sets are generally interpreted in terms of replications of an experiment. However, this interpretation is only valid before observing the sample.
José Alejandro González +3 more
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Possibly extreme, probably not: Is possibility theory the route for risk‐averse decision‐making?
Atmospheric Science Letters, 2021 Ensemble forecasting has become popular in weather prediction to reflect the uncertainty about high‐dimensional, nonlinear systems with extreme sensitivity to initial conditions.
Noémie Le Carrer
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Mathematics, 2021 In this paper, we propose a family of indistinguishability operators, that we have called Yager Possibilitic Response Functions (YPRFs for short), as an appropriate tool for allocating tasks to a collective of agents. In order to select the best agent to
Maria-del-Mar Bibiloni-Femenias +3 more
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An Algorithm for Fuzzification of WordNets and its Application in Sentiment Analysis [PDF]
مدیریت مهندسی و رایانش نرمWordNet-like Lexical Databases (WLDs) group English words into sets of synonyms called “synsets.” Synsets are utilized for several applications in the field of text mining.
Yousef Alizadeh-Q +5 more
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A New Hybrid Possibilistic-Probabilistic Decision-Making Scheme for Classification
Entropy, 2021 Uncertainty is at the heart of decision-making processes in most real-world applications. Uncertainty can be broadly categorized into two types: aleatory and epistemic.
Basel Solaiman +4 more
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The Megaric Possibility Paradox [PDF]
In Metaphysics Theta 3 Aristotle attributes to the Megarics and unknown others a notorious modal thesis: (M) something can φ only if it is φ-ing. Aristotle does not tell us what motivated (M).
Duncombe, Matthew, Steinkrüger, Philipp
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