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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
A formal result is proved which is used in Juhani Yli-Vakkuri’s ‘Epistemicism and Modality’ to argue that certain two-dimensional possible world models are inadequate for a language with operators for ‘necessarily’, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
We often speak as if there are merely possible people—for example, when we make such claims as that most possible people are never going to be born. Yet most metaphysicians deny that anything is both possibly a person and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2011)
We show that a paraconsistent set theory proposed in Weber (2010), this journal, is strong enough to provide a quite classical non-primitive notion of identity, so that the relation is an equivalence relation and also obeys ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
This paper is a study of higher-order contingentism – the view, roughly, that it is contingent what properties and propositions there are. We explore the motivations for this view and various ways in which it might be ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 1999)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2013)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
A large number of word forms in natural language are polysemous, that is, associated with several related senses (e.g., line, run, tight, etc.). While such polysemy appears to cause little difficulty in verbal communication, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
I denne artikkelen diskuterer jeg fenomenet polysemi, der et språklig uttrykk innehar to eller flere beslektede betydninger (et eksempel er adjektivet frisk, som kan bety ‘uskjemt’, ‘ny’, ‘sunn’, ‘livlig’, ‘dristig’, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
This study investigates preschoolers’ ability to understand and produce novel metonyms. We gave forty-seven children (aged 2;9–5;9) and twenty-seven adults one comprehension task and two elicitation tasks. The first ...