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Particles are notorious for their complexity. Plenty of unclarities
surround semantic and pragmatic functions these entities play on
sentential and discourse levels. Some particles have been argued to
have a certain semantic import on the meaning of the sentence in which
they appear. Others can c...
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Scenarios for the Pass\'e Simple and Imparfait
An Event Calculus Approach to French Semantics
Fabrice Nauze
Abstract:
The goal of this thesis is to apply an AI technique for planning to natural
language semantics (pragmatics). It could seem strange at first sight to
relate both areas but let us ...
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Computer viruses tap into a primordial human fear: that of loosing
control. The public fascination with viruses exceeds our fascination
with other ways in which we lose control over our computers, for
example random hardware faults. A probable cause is the perceived
prevalence of computer viruses...
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Wittgenstein's Investigations and Damasio's Explanations:
A Comparative Study of Emotion
Nicole R. Hausen
This thesis compares philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein's conceptual
analysis of emotion with neuroscientist Antonio Damasio's empirical
hypotheses regarding emotion. Specifically, the project ...
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The aim of this thesis is to formalise cost allocation in the Dutch electricity sector by means of concepts from the theory of cost allocation and cooperative games. Consumers of electricity are connected to one of the seven voltage levels in the electricity grid. Most electricity is fed into the...
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The meaning of natural language expressions is usually identified with the conditions under which this expression is true. An alternative view – the procedural approach to meaning – identifies the meaning of an expression with an algorithm (or algorithms) for judging whether the expression is tru...
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We present the tableau calculus LC_2-TAB which is sound and complete
with respect to local square modal logic. The system is a labelled
deduction calculus in the spirit of those for modal S5. The novelty
here is that the calculus works in two interacting dimensions. This
2-dimensional modal l...
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We investigate the major mathematical theories of space from a modal
standpoint: topology, affine geometry, metric geometry, and vector
algebra. This allows us to see new fine-structure in spatial patterns
which suggests analogies across these mathematical theories in terms
of modal, temporal, an...
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The study of large cardinal axioms is an active part of contemporary
set theory. For a large cardinal notion there are often several
definitions possible. For example, two common ways to define a large
cardinal notion is as a critical point of an elementary embedding with
certain properties, or i...
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What are the basic logical notions and skills that all beginning students should learn, and that might stay with them as a useful cultural travel kit for their lives, even when an overwhelming majority will not become professional logicians? "Logic in Action" http://www.logicinaction.org/ tries t...
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Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. This phrase, attributed to Sun Tzu in his book "The Art of War", is a strong recommendation for generals to analyse a combat scenario before actually engaging in combat. This analysis c...