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2010
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Social structure and the effects of conformity
Conformity is an often criticized feature of human belief formation. Although generally regarded as a negative influence on reliability, it has not been widely studied. This paper...
Kevin J. S. Zollman
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2010
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Belief ascription under bounded resources
There exists a considerable body of work on epistemic logics for resource-bounded reasoners. In this paper, we concentrate on a less studied aspect of resource-bounded reasoning, n...
Natasha Alechina, Brian Logan
SYNTHESE
2010
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Measurement theory in linguistics
This paper presents a novel semantic analysis of unit names (like pound and meter) and gradable adjectives (like tall, short and happy), inspired by measurement theory (Krantz et a...
Galit Weidman Sassoon
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2010
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Darwin's solution to the species problem
: Biologists and philosophers that debate the existence of the species category are split into two main camps. Some believe that the species category does not exist and that the te...
Marc Ereshefsky
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2010
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The analytic-synthetic distinction and the classical model of science: Kant, Bolzano and Frege
This paper concentrates on some aspects of the history of the analytic-synthetic distinction from Kant to Bolzano and Frege. This history evinces considerable continuity but also ...
Willem R. de Jong