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Ceteris paribus logic in counterfactual reasoning [PDF]
Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, 2016 The semantics for counterfactuals due to David Lewis has been challenged on the basis of unlikely, or impossible, events. Such events may skew a given similarity order in favour of those possible worlds which exhibit them.
Patrick Girard, Marcus Anthony Triplett
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Fully realizing partial realization [PDF]
Glossa, 2018 There has been a movement in philosophy, growing over the last twenty years, to treat dispositionality as irreducible and, in turn, offer dispositional accounts of important metaphysical matters such as the laws of nature, free will, causation, and ...
Nicky Kroll
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Ultraproducts and possible worlds semantics in institutions
Theoretical Computer Science, 2007 The theory of institutions [\textit{J. A. Goguen} and \textit{R. M. Burstall}, J. Assoc. Comput. Mach. 39, No. 1, 95--146 (1992; Zbl 0799.68134)] is a categorical abstract model theory which formalizes the intuitive notion of logical system, including syntax, semantics, and the satisfaction between them.
Răzvan Diaconescu, Petros Stefaneas
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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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Safety, the Preface Paradox and Possible Worlds Semantics [PDF]
, 2019 This paper contains an argument to the effect that possible worlds semantics renders semantic knowledge impossible, no matter what ontological interpretation is given to possible worlds.
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