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Stanley and Williamson’s 2001 article "Knowing How" introduced a new way of thinking about an old question in epistemology. Their unique perspective is developed in full detail by Stanley in his 2011 book "Know How". The question they address, "What is knowledge-how?", can be uncontroversially tr...
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Multi-lingual phenomena as code-switching disturb widely used language interpretation tools, while the demand for such tools is rising due to the expanding worldwide popularity of online applications. This study explores code-switching between the lexically strong related languages Dutch and Engl...
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In order to formalize the first book of Spinoza’s Ethics, we first provide a philosophical interpretation of his philosophy from a perspective aiming at connecting his main ideas in a formal language. This interpretation emphasizes on the original content of Spinoza’s main ideas such as God, infi...
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In a nonlocal scenario, physically isolated players each have a device that inputs and outputs classical information. Certain correlations between the joint input and output of the devices almost uniquely identify the quantum state that they share. This phenomenon is known as self-testing and has...
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The problem of reaching collective decisions on interconnected issues is studied in binary judgement aggregation with integrity constraints. In this thesis, we present an implementation of the framework for binary judgement aggregation and extend this implementation to study the decision making p...
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Judgment Aggregation is a formal framework of collective decision making. When agents that belong to a group express their individual opinions on a set of logically interconnected issues, a good rule is required in order to combine these opinions and induce a representative collective judgment fo...
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This thesis is a study of new models related to the Garden-hose model, in search of new mathematical tools for a better understanding of the Garden-hose complexity.
After providing a detailed introduction of the Garden-hose model, we introduce an extension of the model that admits multiple parti...
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We investigate the related and important concepts of synonymy and hyperintensionality (i.e. criteria for identity that are more fine-grained than necessary equivalence).
We show how, for every language, validity uniquely determines a co-hyperintensionality relation (that ensures substitution sal...
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This thesis is a study of the logic of a specific form of mechanical divination, in which the diviner asks binary questions on the basis of previously gained knowledge. A comparison is made between Mambila spider divination, which is deeply embedded in the (partly illiterate) Mambila community of...
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This thesis addresses three challenges posed by intentionality - the ability of our mental states and language to be about something - to a logician: an apparent reference to non-existent objects, intentional indeterminacy and the failure of substitutivity of coextensive terms in an intentional c...
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Pretend play is often defined as an imaginative play that involves acting as if : for example, pretending to work would be analysed as “acting as if one was working”. The question on how human beings understand pretence becomes particularly interesting, as soon as one realises that 24 months old ...