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The pretense view is a position in the philosophy of fiction which claims that the representational acts by which fictions are created involve pretense. The degree of involvement of the pretense can vary, and in this thesis I focus on the proposals of John Searle and Saul Kripke in their works fr...
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Algocracies, i.e., political orders where political power is exercised inter alia by or via algorithms, are already a reality. From algorithmic models partaking in judicial decisions and facial recognition AI in surveillance systems to police drones and spywares, more and more political orders ar...
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The polymodal provability logic GLP is a system of propositional modal logic with infinitely many modalities having provability semantics. It was initially introduced by Japaridze in his PhD thesis [19]. GLP has significant applications in proof theory and arithmetic, however, it is well-known th...
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The emergence of large language models (LLMs) has significantly improved performance across various Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. However, the field of NLP predominantly follows a static language modeling paradigm, resulting in performance deterioration of LLMs over time. This indicate...
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Beall and Restall’s (2006) proposal sparked renewed interest in logical pluralism, but it hasn’t gone uncriticized. The most widely-discussed objection to this view is the so-called collapse problem, which highlights some unpalatable consequences arising from the combination of an intra-theoretic...
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This thesis investigates dynamic polyhedra. We establish the connection between models of dynamic polyhedra and dynamic Kripke frames. Based on this result, we introduce a model checker for dynamic models. We demonstrate the application of PolyLogicA model checker on a real-world example from the...
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This thesis studies the effect of homophily on the development of social networks. Homophily refers to the tendency of individuals to be socially connected to others that are similar to themselves. We contend that this phenomenon can be traced back to two tendencies, social influence and social s...
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Polyhedral semantics is a way of interpreting modal formulas on polyhedra. This semantics has recently been introduced by N. Bezhanishvili, D. Gabelaia, S. Adam-Day, V. Marra and others. We introduce a new variation on this semantics, and derive metamathematical properties of both semantics.
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Every definition of the Principle of Compositionality presupposes some set of atoms that provide the primary inputs to a compositional interpretation. When it comes to the study of the compositionality of natural language, such atoms are often equated with words. The diversity of word-structure, ...
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This thesis project analysed the visual cues that mark different types of polar questions in Dutch. From previous multimodal studies, we know that visual cues, such as eyebrow movements and head tilts, may accompany spoken language questions [Nota et al., 2021, 2023, Zygis et al., 2017, da Silva ...