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Toward a New Theory of Moderate Contingentism: Individuals just are Realized Essences
Problemos, 2022 In this paper, we propose a new actualist and contingentist modal metaphysics – fundamental essentialism – according to which individuals just are realized essences.
Pranciškus Gricius
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Clauses as Semantic Predicates: Difficulties for Possible-Worlds Semantics [PDF]
, 2020 The standard view of clauses embedded under attitude verbs or modal predicates is that they act as terms standing for propositions, a view that faces a range of philosophical and linguistic difficulties.
Moltmann, Friederike
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RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and JournalismThe author examines the principle of constructing the hero's path in an early novel by the contemporary writer Paul Auster. In “City of Glass” Auster has already undertaken the problematization of a more traditional narrative form: he pays increasing ...
Dina V. Shulyatyeva
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Les raisonnements contrefactuels dans l’histoire
Argumentation et Analyse du Discours, 2020 This paper deals with the diverse types of counterfactual reasoning – particularly those one encounters in historiography and more generally in essays dealing with historical events.
Marc Angenot
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Los posibles del pasado. Notas sobre la ficción en la historia literaria.
Cuadernos LIRICO, 2022 Literary history, in addition to narrating what happened, evokes, subterraneously, possible non-occurrences and points to an unreal corpus: unwritten books, lost works, relativized hierarchies, disrupted influences, altered chronologies.
Julio Premat
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In Praise of Belief Bases: Doing Epistemic Logic Without Possible Worlds
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2018 We introduce a new semantics for a logic of explicit and implicit beliefs based on the concept of multi-agent belief base. Differently from existing Kripke-style semantics for epistemic logic in which the notions of possible world and doxastic ...
E. Lorini
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On probability distributions over possible worlds [PDF]
Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 2013 In Probabilistic Logic Nilsson uses the device of a probability distribution over a set of possible worlds to assign probabilities to the sentences of a logical language. In his paper Nilsson concentrated on inference and associated computational issues.
F. Bacchus
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Qfwfq as Kafka? Possible-worlds interpretations [PDF]
, 2011 In this paper I propose an interpretation of Calvino's Cosmicomiche in the framework of possible-worlds fiction theory. I use this theoretical framework to make an ‘interpretative bet’ on the name of the main character and narrator of these stories: can ...
Messina, Davide
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Prevent and Community Cohesion in Britain – The Worst of All Possible Worlds? [PDF]
, 2014 This chapter offers a critical analysis of the UK’s Prevent programme to date, and argues that it has been ineffective, or even counter-productive because of a number of conceptual flaws and contradictions. In particular, the monocultural focus on entire,
Thomas, Paul
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Cantor Paradoxes, Possible Worlds and Set Theory
Mathematics, 2019 In this paper, we illustrate the paradox concerning maximally consistent sets of propositions, which is contrary to set theory. It has been shown that Cantor paradoxes do not offer particular advantages for any modal theories.
José-Luis Usó-Doménech +4 more
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