[PDF] Top 20 The argument for propositions from modal validity

... While I’m sure that many other theorists are similarly deferential, the appeal to common opinion is of limited use in the dialectical situation of Merricks’ first chapter. Nominalism about propositions is fairly ... See full document

... The case for thinking that rational argument cannot resolve a disagreement about a framework proposition apparently depends upon Fogelin's claim that framework propositions are no[r] ... See full document

... minimalist account might be accomplished by supervaluating over the relation of representing- exactly-the-same, but showing how this might go is work for another day. Regarding (ii), we are happy to entertain the ... See full document

... We further investigate review structure differ- ence across venues based on proposition usage, and uncover several patterns. For instance, ACL reviews tend to contain more propositions than those in ML venues, ... See full document

... of argument extraction methods consider the identification of sentences containing arguments or not as a key step of the whole ...the argument extraction problem in a completely differ- ent ...extract ... See full document

... original argument and his objection (which is also why I have included List’s formulation of the ...the modal semantics he and Pivato have developed, it’s not clear what it even means to say that the laws ... See full document

... In a word, above two issues indicate that syntactic feature-based approaches are limited in identifying Chinese arguments and it will lead to low recall in argument identification. Therefore, employing those high ... See full document

... The argument from hallucination and illusion* assumes that to give the same analysis of experience requires not invoking an ordinary ...the argument does not establish the Negative ... See full document

... leads from partial information inherent in a game or a communicative convention to that generated by people's limitations, such as bounded memory or limited attention ...crosses from mere partial ... See full document

... Authors generally agree that (KN) is cumbersome. Kratzer’s quote suggests that if we could count on the existence of closest worlds, then we could work with a simpler definition of necessity. Intuitively, instead of ... See full document

... The classic compositional accounts of the semantics of first-order modal languages are inconsistent with the conjunction of Thorough Actualism with common intuitions advanced in support of Thorough Contingentism. A ... See full document

... of argument—provides more useful direction than the usual vague critical thinking recommendation of “charitable interpretation” that encourages students to simply put their own words in arguers’ ... See full document

... In concluding his essay von Wright (1998) seeks to defend a positivist position in terms of the philosophy of legal and moral norms. He argues that “[t]he law of the state says that we ought this and that”, but asks ... See full document

... Proof. Recall that the proof given in [4] consists of a reduction from the mem- bership problem for linearly bounded alternating Turing machines. Given an alternating Turing machine M and an input word w, the ... See full document

... The reason why modus ponens with a true conditonal statement yields a true conclusion on this interpretation is that the antecedent gives a sufficient condition of [r] ... See full document

... the validity of a thesis (in this sense) can never claim to have some final or even absolute ...of validity is theoretically open, but practically it is conclusive, because the respective thesis enters our ... See full document

... The normative force of knowledge presumed and created by rhetorical argument (1977, p 142)." A legitimation controversy arises out of validity objections to whether an[r] ... See full document

... However, we shall see that the twist-2 nonfactorizable effects are numerically small; the predicted decay rate of B → J / ψ K is too small by a factor of 7 ∼ 10. Therefore, it is inevitable that higher- twist effects, ... See full document

... ˆ Nominals: There is some interest in this extended hybrid logic and its con- nection to other formalisms that use nominals: for instance term rewriting, monadic second order logic and description logics. Another ... See full document

... grammar from both reading and ...reading from listening (Bae and Bachman 1998; Hale et ...content validity study of the EPE determined that each section of test were individually distinct (Sims ... See full document