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The ontological argument: an “office” solution [PDF]
Кантовский сборник, 2013 There are two important facts that prevent the success of the so called "ontological argument": 1) the use of the concept of existence as a real predicate and 2) the confusion of de re and de dicto modalities.
Gorbatova Yu.
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De re attitude reports about disjunctive attitudes
Слово.ру: балтийский акцент, 2022 This paper discusses the semantics of so-called de re propositional attitudes. According to the standard Kaplanian analysis, the semantics of such dicta contains existential quantification over functions that map the attitude holder and the object of ...
Ekaterina V. Vostrikova, Petr S. Kusliy
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Philosophies, 2023 In this paper, I argue that David Lewis’s possible world semantics for counterfactual discourse and for fictional discourse are apparently inconsistent and in need of revision.
Andrew D. Bassford
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On ‘actually’ and ‘dthat’: Truth-Conditional Differences in Possible Worlds Semantics
Organon F, 2019 Although possible worlds semantics is a powerful tool to represent the semantic properties of natural language sentences, it has been often argued that it is too coarse: with the tools that possible worlds semantics puts at our disposal, any relevant ...
Genoveva Martí +1 more
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Cхід, 2014 The article deals with the ontology of the possible worlds in possible world semantics. Possible worlds are considered from instrumentalist point of view (according to which we have no need in regulating of the relation of possible world to actual world
Mstislav Kazakov
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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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Fabula Nova Obscura Est: Possible Worlds in “Final Fantasy XIII-2”
Галактика медиа: журнал медиа исследований, 2021 Modern narratological researches are quite well developed and has long gone beyond the purely philological field. One of the applications of narratology is the study of computer games, the most relevant new medium.
Vladislav V. Kirichenko
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Grounding Possible Worlds Semantics in Experiential Semantics [PDF]
Proceedings of the 3d Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-10), 2010 Probabilistic Logic Networks (PLN), a comprehensive framework for uncertain inference currently in use in the OpenCog and Novamente Cognition Engine AGI software architectures, has previously been described in terms of the “experiential semantics” of an intelligent agent embodied in a world.
Ben Goertzel, Matthew Ikle
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Philosophical Issues from Kripke’s ‘Semantical Considerations on Modal Logic’
Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2016 In ‘Semantical Considerations on Modal Logic’, Kripke articulates his project in the discourse of “possible worlds”. There has been much philosophical discussion of whether endorsement of the Kripke semantics brings ontological commitment to possible ...
John Divers
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Translation as a journey through possible and impossible worlds
Слово.ру: балтийский акцент, 2023 In this paper, translation is examined from the perspective of the semantics of possible worlds. The consequences of this viewpoint are explored, particularly in relation to the metaphor of traveling through possible and impossible worlds in translation ...
Valery Z. Demyankov
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