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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Conditionals"”.
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Topics in conditionals
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1991.
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Modality, rationalism, and conditionals
… papers on apriority, modality, and conditionals. In "Playground Conditionals," I look at three philosophical debates, each of which turns on the epistemic status of a certain kind of conditional-what I call a playground conditional. I argue that a close consideration of playground …
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TEMPORAL PROPERTIES IN JAPANESE (TENSE, CONDITIONALS).
This dissertation is concerned with the relationship between morphological tense forms of Japanese, such as (r)u ("non-past") and ta ("past"), and their temporal interpretation. The goal of the research reported here is to establish a simple overall theory. The analysis focuses on the following …
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Hambo buza unyoko: on future Real conditionals
… conditions as a performance of future real conditionals.
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The role of probability in indicative and deontic conditionals
… considered the role of probability in indicative conditionals, and found evidence to support the use of probability by participants on tasks such as this. The task used was Wason's (1966,1968) four-card selection task, although this task was revised in order to facilitate the use of probabilistic …
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The time of possibilities : truth and felicity of subjunctive conditionals
… us to develop a semantic analysis of those conditionals that are traditionally called subjunctive conditionals, and to provide an answer to how to select the worlds that the modal operator quantifies' over. Finally, I argue that the semantic analyses of counterfactuals discussed by Lewis …
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Interpretation of and reasoning with conditionals : probabilities, mental models, and causality
… to the meaning and the reasoning from causal conditionals will be integrated into a common model. In the model the availability of exceptional situations that have the power to generate exceptions to the rule described in the conditional (e.g., the electricity is turned off), reduces the …
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Counterfactuals in Context: Felicity conditions for counterfactual conditionals containing proper names
… provides felicity conditions for counterfactual conditionals containing proper names in which essential changes to an individual are counterfactually posited using contrastive focus in either the antecedent or consequent clause. The felicity conditions proposed are an adaptation of Heim's (1992) …
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Truthmaker and negation: Investigations of nonbeing, negative events, and counterfactual conditionals
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-12-01
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If there are exceptions, it is still a rule : a probabilistic understanding of conditionals
… of momentum in explaining the interpretation of conditionals, there is still no conclusive probabilistic account of conditional reasoning. This thesis investigates the potential of a comprehensive probabilistic account on conditionals that covers the interpretation of conditionals as well as …
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A corpus-based examination of English if-conditionals through the lens of modality : nature and types
… two-pronged. A number of studies on modality or conditionals have put forward the claim that conditionality, and conditionals, have a special relationship with modality. However, this claim has not been empirically investigated, or established quantitatively, nor has the nature of this …
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Desire, belief, and conditional belief
This dissertation studies the logics of value and conditionals, and the question of whether they should be given cognitivist analyses. Emotivist theories treat value judgments as expressions of desire, rather than beliefs about goodness. Inference ticket theories of conditionals treat them as …
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Revisiting Lockhart: A Case for a Conditional Operator
… bases. Certain contexts involving <em>might</em> conditionals require <em>might</em> to take wide-scope over a conditional proposition. A restrictor-view analysis of conditionals is unable to derive both the intuitive meaning of the <em>might</em> conditional and the necessary conditional …
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Using task-based elicitation to measure effectiveness of counterfactual conditional instruction
… learners are able to use counterfactual second conditionals and related grammatical structures to perform certain illocutionary acts. To this end the researcher attempted to create tasks for which the production of the target grammatical structures would be “natural” (Loschcky & Bley-Vroman, …
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Taming the impossible
… to be obstacles to a satisfactory theory of conditionals. In my dissertation, which consists of two parts, I propose a new approach to the impossible that yields an improved theory of conditionals. A prominent response to the semantic paradoxes is glut theory. Glut theorists avoid paradox by …
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Belief is Messy
… messy on considering ascriptions of beliefs in conditionals. I show that proponents of weak belief either cannot consistently apply their preferred methodology when accommodating beliefs in conditionals, or they must deny that beliefs in conditionals can be used in reasoning.
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Neurosymbolic Learning for Robust and Reliable Intelligent Systems
… programmatic constructs such as loops and conditionals and continuous neural components. The symbolic part makes the model interpretable, generalizable, and robust, while the neural part handles the complexity of the intelligent systems. Concretely, this thesis presents two classes of …
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Performing binary fuzzing using concolic execution
… branching factor or are heavily based on complex conditionals determining control flow. The system is designed around a Taint/Crash Analysis tool combined with a Path Exploration system to generate symbolic representations of the paths, generating a new set of inputs to be tested. These are …
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