The Argument From Truth-Conditional Semantics
Truth and Argument Evaluation
... an argument to accept, it is an appropriate candidate for employment in an enterprise that aims to rationally persuade the audience of the truth of the conclusion (see Pinto 1994, ...likely, from the ...
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Conditional perfection: the truth and the whole truth
... strict conditional is now gone, and the distinction between only if conditionals and bi-conditionals is ...Moreover, from the existential force of the conditional and the meaning of only it follows ...
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Conditional sentences: truth conditions and probability
... a conditional statement does not pertain to the semantic level, but to the pragmatic ...a conditional is not semantically ambiguous, but just ...their truth conditions. That common structure is given ...
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Argument realization, causation and event semantics in Kiwoso
... Consequently, from the same deep structure, other English sentences could also be derived such as x causes y to become not alive, x causes y to become dead, x causes y to die and x bring it about that y is dead ...
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Is Structure Necessary for Modeling Argument Expectations in Distributional Semantics?
... are used to filter fillers entering in the role representation, this model is the closest one to theories assuming structured event knowledge. • BOA: Almost identical to the DEPS model, except for the fact that the most ...
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The Truth of Divine Impassibility: A New Look at an Old Argument
... Introduction From his Nazi prison cell in 1944, Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote to his friend Eberhard Bethge that ‘only the suffering God can ...returning from camps and hospitals to the lecture ...detached ...
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Foundations of Semantics I: Truth-conditions, entailment and logic
... (5) World C: Hilary Clinton is president of the US, Rick is a baker, Rome is the capital of Italy, Rick has a 50 cent coin in his wallet. (6) World D: etc. The idea is that all the facts that are true describe a unique ...
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Formal similarities and differences among qualitative conditional semantics
... Various semantics have been used for conditionals in the area of knowledge representation and ...itative semantics based on the popular system-of-spheres semantics of Lewis, an ordinal ...
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Indexicality and presupposition : explorations beyond truth conditional information
... Descriptive Meaning, Presupposition, and Interpretation is his own pants that are on fire but refrained from choosing the st person for different reasons. But let us ignore this here. The question here is whether ...
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SCF2 - an Argumentation Semantics for Rational Human Judgments on Argument Acceptability
... which semantics are evaluated based on their satisfaction of various normatively desirable ...which semantics best predicts human judgments about ...argumentation semantics called ...no ...
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Distributional Semantics in the Real World: Building Word Vector Representations from a Truth Theoretic Model
... built from word co-occurrences, that is, from lexical types rather than entities and ...claims, truth-theoretic models are good candidates for building graded lexical representations of ...
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Restoring Truth: An Argument to Remove the Qui Tam Provision from the False Marking Statute of the Patent Act
... Notwithstanding that the court’s statements were dicta, the court was absolutely correct that such an interpretation of “offense” will greatly affect the incentive to bring a qui tam action. However, after finding that § ...
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X 2017 02: Truth Maker Semantics and Modal Information Logic
... Fine’s truth maker semantics have some special ...arising from a harmless standard completion of arbitrary partial orders, say, by means of Fine’s algebraic ...
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ThinkMiners: Disorder Recognition using Conditional Random Fields and Distributional Semantics
... concepts from the electronic medical records such as clinical reports, discharge sum- maries as well as large number of doctor’s notes has become an utmost important task for auto- matic analysis in the medical ...
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Uniform labelled calculi for preferential conditional logics based on neighbourhood semantics
... preferential conditional logic PCL, introduced by Burgess, and its extensions are ...natural semantics based on neighbour- hood models, which generalise Lewis’ sphere models for counterfactual logics, is ...
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Deontic commitments in conditional promises and threats: towards an exemplar semantics for conditionals
... back from the long-term memory in response to the probe is called the ...exemplar semantics’ assumption that all traces are activated in the process of echo retrieval is essential to George’s threat ...
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Verb argument structure predicts implicit causality: The advantages of finer-grained semantics
... systematically with the verb in the main clause (contrast Sally frightened Mary because she… with Sally feared Mary because she…). A number of researchers have tried to explain and predict such biases with reference to ...
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The argument for propositions from modal validity
... different truth-conditions in w than it does in the actual world, there is some world w such that ‘All dogs are dogs’ is false in ...possible truth would his opponent grant the conjunction that ‘All dogs ...
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Foundational Grounding and the Argument from Contingency
... author of sin. We must therefore carve out some space for the existence and causal efficacy of creatures. 18 In plain language, we say that there is a fictional detective named ‘Holmes’, and there are several species of ...
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Colour, dispositions and the Argument from Physics
... a truth about greenness/ The advantage o f conceiving o f the interrelation between theories o f properties and theories o f colours in theses terms is that we are now in a position to explain the attraction o f ...
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