Results 191 to 200 of about 713,572 (250)

Death literacy: Tensions between theory and practice. [PDF]

open access: yesPalliat Care Soc Pract
Rogerson J, Holland-Hart D, Edwards M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Mereological Anti-Conservatism. [PDF]

open access: yesActa Anal
Declos A, Grandjean V.
europepmc   +1 more source

A world of (Im) possibilities

Proceedings of the twenty-seventh ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computing, 2008
One of Nancy Lynch's most important contributions to distributed computing is the area of lower bounds and impossibility results. She and her colleagues pioneered the use of formal modeling of distributed systems, which is essential for rigorous impossibility results, and developed many of the techniques used in such proofs, e.g., covering, valency ...
Hagit Attiya, Jennifer L. Welch
openaire   +1 more source

Possible Worlds and Situations

Journal of Philosophical Logic, 1986
In the days before situation semantics1, some of us who wished to take a little of the metaphysical wind out of the sails of possible worlds semantics took to referring to possible worlds as “possible situations.” Now that the term “situation” has been pre-empted — tied to a certain theory and a certain ideology — I suppose those who still like ...
openaire   +1 more source

Imagining Possible Worlds

Review of General Psychology, 2018
The reading of fiction has been found to confer benefits, including increased empathy and understanding of others. Among ongoing research questions are those of how people engage in imagined worlds while keeping in touch with the currently perceived world, as well as how far stories were important in human evolution and how the brain is involved ...
Oatley, K, Dunbar, R, Budelmann, F
openaire   +1 more source

Possible Worlds in Use

Studia Logica, 2011
zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
openaire   +2 more sources

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy