States and possible worlds
CLEVE GRAY A PAINTER OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS
... 25 CLEVE GRAY Cleve Gray (1918-2004) graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University, where he studied painting and Far Eastern Art under the acclaimed scholar George Rowley. Like many of his generation, he joined ...
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cProbLog: Restricting the possible worlds of probabilistic logic programs
... Fig. 4 illustrates a cProbLog program which encodes a Bayesian network [4]. The program defines two neighbors – John and Mary. Burglary and earthquake may trigger an alarm. If the alarm goes off, one of the people calls ...
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Clauses as Semantic Predicates: Difficulties for Possible-Worlds Semantics
... mental states, cognitive or illocutionary acts or products of such acts, and modal objects (entities like obligations and permissions), objects that may be given by the content of the embedding predicate or the ...
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Alternative realities: Counterfactual historical fiction and possible worlds theory
... Within the scope of my thesis, I will be analysing political reversal stories: those that imagine a world where the Axis Powers – Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan – have won the Second World War. In the actual world, the ...
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Do possible worlds compromise God’s beauty? A reply to Mark Ian Thomas Robson
... of possible worlds as stories, Robson no longer has any argument to support his claim that such a contradiction ...the states of affairs these propositions represent to become actual they would be ...
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Our for- mulations are based on “marriage” of traditional top-k se- mantics and possible worlds semantics
... all possible states based on the three seen ...maintained states is exponential in the number of seen ...useless states, i.e., states that do not have a chance to lead to query ...
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Constructing a western researcher's identity and professional integrity in difference: restorying the encountered 'exceptional' as an act of locating possible worlds
... 33) states, ”The very shape of our lives – through the rough and perpetually changing draft of an autobiography that we carry in our minds – is understandable to ourselves only by virtue of those cultural systems ...
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Making other worlds possible? Riots, movement and counterglobalisation
... accompanied by the creation of a globally mobile and increasingly precarious proletariat (or what some are terming the ‘precariat’) 21 . In June 1989, as the Eastern Bloc was crumbling, political scientist Francis ...
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Protectionism and the EU market for corporate control : is it possible to get the best of both worlds?
... Germany opted out of the BNR of Article 9 in order to protect German companies. It is argued in favour of Germany that, ‘owing to the lack of a level playing field, German companies still require protection. This ...
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“Not all spaces are territories”: creating other possible urban worlds in and from Latin America – an interview with Raúl Zibechi
... of favelas. How is this act of violence being processed in the communities and urban movements in Brazil? R. Z.: While I do not live in Brazil, I think there are two as- pects here: first, the violence against the black ...
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A wonderland of possible worlds
... other worlds are ...equal-status worlds within the one text, thus subverting any notion of hierarchy and challenging the idea of a central ...the possible and central ontologies are re-ordered (even ...
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The Possible Worlds of Shakespearean Drama
... The affinity between literature and history were reflected in historical writing. Early modern historians was keen to make use of literary and rhetorical strategies which compromise their quest for truth and would rather ...
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Proper names and possible worlds
... should be counted as tru e . Option (vi*) seems to be a reasonably agreeable one. But i t does su ffer from the deficiency that i t is analogous to some = with only two possible worlds, one being the real ...
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Ruth Ronen-Possible Worlds in Literary Theory
... has recently gained interdisciplinary influence; it proves to be a productive tool when borrowed by literary theory to explain the notion of fictional worlds. In this book Ruth Ronen dev[r] ...
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For some proposition and so many possible worlds
... In this chapter I consider a system containing the notion of a proposition being true in exactly one possible world.. 91.[r] ...
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Possible worlds semantics and true-true counterfactuals
... xxii Although Gundersen puts things in terms of normal worlds, his semantics need not appeal to possible worlds at all as (16) and (17) do all the work. xxiii One might worry about Gundersen’s ...
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Safety, the Preface Paradox and Possible Worlds Semantics
... of possible worlds ...of possible worlds semantics like Stalnaker ( 2011 , 110) are clear about their construal of such semantic competence in terms of PWS and PWS-SKN, but we cannot even ...
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More on Induction and Possible Worlds: Replies to Thomas and Kahane
... In deductive logic, strong support requires validity, and val id deductive arguments have inductive probabilities of one (or 100% if we prefer percentages).[9] But not[r] ...
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A Modal-Ontological Argument and Leibniz's View of Possible Worlds
... a possible world. Possible worlds exist only as ideas in God’s mind, and the consistency of God’s existence cannot be God’s existence in a possi- ble ...regarding possible worlds must ...
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Reading the Identity of Dramatis Personae Through the Semantics of Possible Worlds
... another possible world Kassandra could have been a transsexual acting in a different way from that of her mythical predecessor, irrespective of the con- sequences this might have had for the virility of all the ...
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