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How Many Worlds Could There Be? David Lewis and Advanced Modalizing
ABSTRACT Advanced modalizing, namely, possibilities and necessities concerning modal space itself, is problematic for a Lewis‐style analysis of modality. A popular solution, proposed by Divers, postulates explicit semantic clauses for a collapse of advanced modalizing, to the conclusion that all such matters are, if true in the first place, both ...
Lorenzo Azzano +2 more
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"What Will You Tell Them When They Ask You?" Reflexive Accountability in a Democratic Regime. [PDF]
Street E.
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ABSTRACT Joint inquiry requires agents to exchange public content about some target domain, which in turn requires them to track which content a linguistic form contributes to a conversation. But, often, the inquiry delivers a necessary truth. For example, if we are inquiring whether a particular bird, Tweety, is a woodpecker, and discover that it is ...
Una Stojnić, Matthew Stone
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Rape Survivors' Experience of the UK Criminal Justice System: A Qualitative Study. [PDF]
Shone H +3 more
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Touching Through: The Puzzle of Mediated Contact
ABSTRACT It is natural to think that one person touches another when their bodies make direct contact. However, much interpersonal touch is not like this. We often touch people through things like their clothing. But this raises a puzzle: How can you touch someone without directly touching the surface of their body?
William Hornett, Robert Morgan
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Detecting Occlusion Myocardial Infarction with an AI-Powered ECG Model: A Retrospective Cohort Study. [PDF]
Hellerman MB +4 more
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Forgive, Because You Were Forgiven
ABSTRACT Philosophical orthodoxy has it that forgiveness is always discretionary—a gift we are free to extend to those who wrong us, but one that we are never morally required to offer. I dispute this orthodoxy, arguing that forgiveness is sometimes obligatory, even though wrongdoers can never demand or otherwise extract it from us.
Abraham Mathew
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The Impact of Expert Witness Knowledge on Perceived Credibility: Implications for Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity (NGRI) Endorsement. [PDF]
Cain CF, Smith OKH.
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ABSTRACT Determinism is (roughly) the thesis that the past determines the future. But efforts to define it precisely have exposed deep methodological disagreements. Standard possible‐worlds formulations of determinism presuppose an “agreement” relation between worlds, but this relation can be understood in multiple ways, none of which is particularly ...
Hans Halvorson +2 more
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