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Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2021 Narrative Language and Possible Worlds in Postmodern Fiction. A Borderline Study of Ian McEwan’s The Child in Time. The present paper is a study of more traditional hermeneutics combined with a tinge of possible world modality, with the purpose of ...
Adriana Diana URIAN
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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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Imposture as a problem of reference: semiotics of the name in Boris Godunov
Слово.ру: балтийский акцент, 2021 In this article, we continue to address the mechanisms of presenting oneself as another and another as oneself. In this regard, non-trivial features of the semantics of a proper name are described.
Suren T. Zolyan
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Inferences Between Buridan’s Modal Propositions
Problemos, 2022 In recent years modal syllogistic provided by 14th century logician John Buridan has attracted increasing attention of historians of medieval logic. The widespread use of quantified modal logic with the apparatus of possible worlds semantics in current ...
Jonas Dagys +2 more
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Coalgebraic Semantics for Probabilistic Logic Programming [PDF]
Logical Methods in Computer Science, 2021 Probabilistic logic programming is increasingly important in artificial intelligence and related fields as a formalism to reason about uncertainty. It generalises logic programming with the possibility of annotating clauses with probabilities. This paper
Tao Gu, Fabio Zanasi
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Possible worlds of a literary text character: a cognitive and quantitative linguistic approach
Когниция, коммуникация, дискурс, 2021 The article aims to forward a model for analyzing the evaluative component of controversial literary characters. This model presupposes the application of the basic tenets of the possible worlds theory to the analysis of a fiction text, combining it with
Dmytro Pavkin
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Possible Worlds Semantics [PDF]
, 2015 One approach to specifying the meaning of pieces of languages is to treat those meanings as constructions out of possible worlds and possible objects. This technique is useful both in logic and in providing the semantics of natural languages. After introducing possible worlds semantics, this chapter will outline some of the applications that have ...
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Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2018 This article investigates the problems which arise when the concept of possible worlds is applied to modal and existential judgments about God.
Alexey Chernyak, Andrey Veretennikov
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ProblemosModalism, a philosophical theory positing that modal concepts such as possibly and necessarily are primitive and unanalysable, stands in contrast to possible worlds semantics, which analyses modal notions through a quantificational framework.
Monika Morkūnaitė
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About Truth and Possible Worlds: Pavel Tichý and His Logical and Philosophical Research [PDF]
Slovo a Smysl, 2021 This paper is devoted to the brilliant Czech logician and philosopher of language Pavel Tichý (1936–1994) who, after emigrating to New Zealand in 1970 and spending half his life there as a political refugee, committed suicide shortly before returning to ...
Anna Maria Perissutti
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