Non-existent objects and possible worlds
Proper names and possible worlds
... shadowy non-existent objects which yet had being, and could therefore be talked about and were talked about whenever we used one of these empty proper ...
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Planning non existent dictionaries
... as possible, of the language’s formative elements, in order to assemble large families of words with common origins; this would shorten the etymology presented for each word and enlighten users about semantic ...
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The Possible Worlds of Shakespearean Drama
... the non-seriousness of the representation, so much so that the actual material objects onstage, far from being emblems of the absent represented referential nature, are just mockeries of that nature: “yet ...
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Objects, worlds, and students: virtual interaction in education
... The main aim of this study is to form a complete taxonomy of the types of interactions that relate to the use of a virtual world for engaging learning experiences, when blended and hybrid learning methods are to be used. ...
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Possible worlds semantics and true-true counterfactuals
... plausible non-logical assumptions, one cannot maintain Limited Transitivity, substitution of logical equivalents in the antecedents of counterfactuals, Disjunction, an infinitary version of Agglomeration, and the ...
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Scene management for modelled audio objects in interactive worlds
... as non- persistent do not, and arise from collision systems that simply recalculate a new set of contact points at each ...data. Non- persistent contacts cannot be immediately related to previously created ...
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Is Your Digital Health Strategy Thriving, Surviving or Non-Existent?
... Once the project or program is identified, implementation will require a budget, as well as a full cost justification analysis. There is a strong return on investment (ROI) case to be made for digital health initia- ...
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A Modal-Ontological Argument and Leibniz's View of Possible Worlds
... being possible, except that instead of using the name ‘God’as a singular term, Pigdon assumed that a God- like being is possible, in symbols (9x)G(x), where the predicate G is read as ‘is ...transcendent ...
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Clauses as Semantic Predicates: Difficulties for Possible-Worlds Semantics
... content-bearing objects naturally carries over to modals as ...modal objects, entities of the sort of needs, obligations, and ...Modal objects may be produced by an illocutionary act (of demanding, ...
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How Can Buddhists Prove That Non-Existent Things Do Not Exist?
... conceptual objects that are characterised by general features, Primordial Matter can then be talked about meaningfully and, thus, it can be the subject of a proof showing that it does not ...
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The non-existent firm: relations between corporate image and strategy 1
... The above underlines how an essential aspect of corporate image consists of the conscious use of the various communication channels that the company avails itself of. In fact, companies possess an extensive range of ...
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Reading the Identity of Dramatis Personae Through the Semantics of Possible Worlds
... anti- worlds with a complete disregard for the legitimacy of the original text (Doležel: Heterocosmica 206) or actual world, such as the one within which Shakespeare’s Pericles ...a non-rigid designator, ...
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Prevent and Community Cohesion in Britain – The Worst of All Possible Worlds?
... separate, essentialised ethnic communities and then developing targets and action plans to close inequality gaps. Alongside this came funding streams and the development of public sector posts and facilities dedicated to ...
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"An infinitude of Possible Worlds": towards a research method for hypertext fiction
... Unlike Leibniz’s Divine Wisdom, the writer must be ontologically situated within the Actual World. The second and third propositions follow on from this. Bell has shown how PWT can be used to understand the reader’s ...
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Prevent and Community Cohesion in Britain – The Worst of All Possible Worlds?
... separate, essentialised ethnic communities and then developing targets and action plans to close inequality gaps. Alongside this came funding streams and the development of public sector posts and facilities dedicated to ...
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Expressivism About Reference and Quantification Over the Non-existent Without Meinongian Metaphysics
... and Non-Mirror Conceptions Paradigmatically, semantics is the story of words and their relation to ...assigning objects from the domain, or sets or functions defined therefrom, to certain symbols in the ...
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Outsourcing HR Functions An Explanatory Approach to Firms (Non-Existent) Demand for Personnel Services
... The possible effects of the external procurement of HR services on the relations to workers’ representations like unions and works councils are similarly ...
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Counterfactuals without Possible Worlds? A Difficulty for Fine’s Exact Semantics for Counterfactuals
... must possible outcomes be relative to worlds? In other words, why is the possible outcome relation ternary? I will take these questions in ...8 Possible outcomes are naturally taken to be what ...
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Sam Shepard and the “Familial Maze”: possible worlds theory in Buried Child
... Narratologically, Shelly, the other female character, plays the role of an intradiegetic narrator. This does not mean that she is literally a narrator but in effect she functions as an outsider and observer who by ...
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Challenges of Critical and Emancipatory Design Science Research: The Design of ‘Possible Worlds’ as Response
... his or her contribution. The exclusion of ’normative rationality’, by solely focusing on ’purposive rationality’ implies that human beings, an immanent part of IS, are merely treated as objects. To some degree and ...
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