Beyond a simple “yes” and “no”

Beyond a simple "yes" and "no".

Beyond a simple " yes " and " no " Citation for published version: Bak, T 2015, 'Beyond a simple " yes " and " no " : A commentary on Paap et al. " Bilingual advantages in executive functioning either do not exist or are restricted to very specific and undetermined circumstances " , Submission to Cortex " Discussion Forum " ' Cortex. General rights Copyright for the publications made accessible...

Not a Simple Yes or No: Uncertainty in Indirect Answers

There is a long history of using logic to model the interpretation of indirect speech acts. Classical logical inference, however, is unable to deal with the combinations of disparate, conflicting, uncertain evidence that shape such speech acts in discourse. We propose to address this by combining logical inference with probabilistic methods. We focus on responses to polar questions with the fol...

Genetically Modified Food: Yes or No?

radical iort, yes or no?

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Social Yes; Contract No

Social contract theory is incoherent and it does not work as desired. Among the most obvious disanalogies is that contracts are enforced by a third party, commonly the state. There is no such external enforcer for a constitution. Contractarian theorists typically ignore all such issues and use the metaphor of contract very loosely to ground a claim that citizens are morally obligated to defer t...