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Formal semantics and historical linguistics have been often considered two distinct and unrelated disciplines, studied by different people with different methodologies and different concerns. The aim of this thesis is to bring them together. Our case study is the Italian indefinite determiner qua...
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This thesis investigate the modal and first-order model theory of the class of models over descriptive general frames. Descriptive general frames are Stone spaces with a suitable relation over which every modal logic is complete. The main theorem of this thesis is the van Benthem Characterisation...
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of the analysis of unconditionals developed in Rawlins (2008, 2013). In deriving the scalar use of dou, we propose the concept of ‘scalarization’ of the distributivity effect. Inspired by the ability of dou to associate with both plural noun phrases (in the quantifier-distributor use) and wh-phra...
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How do people come to know things? This is the core question of this thesis that looks into the ways humans engage in their epistemic practices. The easy answer: With epistemic technologies. In this thesis, I argue that the notion of technology should be broadened to include our conceptual device...
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This thesis investigates logical models for branching spacetimes, in the tradition started by Belnap. To get a proper generalization of Minkowski space-time that is closer to physical reality, the thesis adds to Belnap’s causal (i.e. order-theoretic) structure appropriate topological, differentia...
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This thesis explores the idea that set theory and category theory represent different ways of thinking. Adopting the perspectives of various foundational systems based in set theory and category theory, we investigate two common and informal conceptions about the distinction between set-theoretic...
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This thesis is concerned with a family of position which are labelled as logical nihilism. There are two main theses which are denoted by this term: First, Gillian Russell defends the thesis that there are no logical laws. Second, Aaron Cotnoir maintains that we cannot capture natural language co...
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This thesis develops a nominalist approach for the area of Philosophical Logic that deals with existence and identity.
It does so from an epistemic perspective, with the objective of describing what a philosopher can call knowledge when discussing such topics.
One of the features of the Philoso...
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Previous research has shown that a trade-off between simplicity and informativeness can explain the semantic typology of various semantic domains of content words, such as color, kinship and folk biology (Kemp, Xu & Regier, 2018). In this thesis, I investigate whether this trade-off extends to qu...
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Information control has been subject of investigation in the fields of information theory and social network analysis. Gatekeepers play a central role, as they are the agents that can manipulate the information flow between groups of agents. In this thesis, we present a formal model, which captur...
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In this thesis, I examine three different approaches to the Liar paradox and its revenge that respect the naive principles of truth. These approaches are the paracomplete gap approaches, the paraconsistent dialetheic approaches, and the strict-tolerant dialetheic approaches.
It is often argued t...