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Possible world
Known as:
Possible Worlds
, Possible universe
, Actual world
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In philosophy and logic, the concept of a possible world is used to express modal claims. The concept of possible worlds is common in contemporary…
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2012
2012
3.2 SEMANCO: Semantic Tools for Carbon Reduction in Urban Planning
L. Madrazo
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A. Sicilia
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G. Gamboa
2012
Corpus ID: 132429984
The goal of the SEMANCO project is to develop an ontology-based energy information system and associated tools that help…
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2012
2012
Reconstructing Bhaskar's Transcendental Analysis of Experimental Activity
Dustin Mcwherter
2012
Corpus ID: 55162090
In this essay I attempt a thorough reconstruction and modification of Roy Bhaskar's "transcendental analysis of experimental…
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2008
2008
Comments on 'The Logic of Conditional Doxastic Actions'
Hans van Ditmarsch
2008
Corpus ID: 15077081
I first summarize Baltag and Smets’ contribution to this volume, and praise their work. Then I compare the anti-lexicographic…
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2008
2008
Non-reductive physicalism and the limits of the exclusion principle Working paper
2008
Corpus ID: 27700318
LSE has developed LSE Research Online so that users may access research output of the School. Copyright © and Moral Rights for…
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2008
2008
Music in the Fields: Constructing Narratives of the Late 19th Century Hawaiian Plantation Cultural Landscape
A. Kingsbury
2008
Corpus ID: 49390001
Musical lyrics can infuse semantic breath and cultural meaning to particular localities, helping to transform abstract…
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2006
2006
Belief Revision in the Situation Calculus Without Plausibility Levels
R. Demolombe
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Pilar Pozos Parra
International Syposium on Methodologies for…
2006
Corpus ID: 11071274
The Situation Calculus has been used by Scherl and Levesque to represent beliefs and belief change without modal operators thanks…
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2001
2001
On the Semantics of Knowledge Update
Chitta Baral
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Yan Zhang
International Joint Conference on Artificial…
2001
Corpus ID: 18784983
We consider the problem of how an agent’s knowledge can be updated. We propose a formal method of knowledge update on the basis…
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1999
1999
A Chaos-Theory Metaphor for Strategic Planning in Higher Education: An Exploratory Study.
William Marcus Cutright
1999
Corpus ID: 150599242
This dissertation is based on the ideas that: (1) metaphor is essential to the conception of and life in organizations; (2) the…
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1996
Review
1996
Introduction to Intensional Programming
J. Plaice
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J. Paquet
1996
Corpus ID: 59633574
Using the World Wide Web as illustration, the basic concepts of intensional programming, in which the meaning of an expression…
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1987
1987
Structure and Redaction in Isaiah 2-4
M. A. Sweeney
1987
Corpus ID: 490300
In his recent study of Isaiah 2-4, B. Wiklander (1984) employs linguistic text theory and rhetorical methodology in an effort to…
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