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Contextualism and the Factivity Problem
Epistemological contextualism - the claim that the truth-value of knowledge-attributions can vary with the context of the attributor - has recently faced a whole series of objections. The most…
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Discosuite - A parser test suite for German discontinuous structures
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A test suite for testing the performance of dependency and constituency parsers on non-projective dependencies and discontinuous constituents for German, based on the newly released TIGER treebank version 2.2.2, which includes a linguistic analysis of the phenomena that cause discontinuity in the TIGer annotation.
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Acquiring English dative verbs: proficiency effects in German L2 learners
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The influence of probabilistic informa- tion in the second language on the processing of English da- tive alternation constructions in German learners of English is investigated while simultaneous consideration of multi- ple ’soft’ constraints led to considerable success in multi-linguistic constraints.
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Is Knowledge Safe
The subjunctive conditionals do not cover all possible worlds but just the close ones. Fur thermore, a relativization to methods of belief acquisition is necessary-as Nozick's grand mother-example…
Information, Closure, And Knowledge: On Jäger’s Objection To Dretske
Christoph Jäger (2004) argues that Dretske’s information theory of knowledge raises a serious problem for his denial of closure of knowledge under known entailment: Information is closed under known…
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Contrastivism Rather than Something Else? On the Limits of Epistemic Contrastivism
One of the most recent trends in epistemology is contrastivism. It can be characterized as the thesis that knowledge is a ternary relation between a subject, a proposition known and a contrast…
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No Luck With Knowledge? On a Dogma of Epistemology
Current epistemological orthodoxy has it that knowledge is incompatible with luck. More precisely: Knowledge is incompatible with epistemic luck (of a certain, interesting kind). This is often…
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Empiricism, stances, and the problem of voluntarism
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It is argued that Bas van Fraassen’s idea of the “empirical stance” entails a very problematic form of voluntarism which comes with the threat of latent irrationality and normative inadequacy.
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The Scottish Pragmatist? The Dilemma of Common Sense and the Pragmatist Way Out
Epistemic Contextualism: A Defense
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