Frozen structure and concessive relations: a complex predication

Structure Mapping and the Predication of Novel Higher-Order Relations

Relations play a central role in human perception and cognition, but little is known about how relational concepts are acquired and predicated. For example, how do we come to understand that physical force is a higher-order multiplicative relation between mass and acceleration? We report an experiment demonstrating that structure mapping (a.k.a., analogical mapping) plays a key role in the pred...

Creating Surprise in Complex Predication

In many languages, the verbs take and go may combine with another predicate to yield an inceptive reading, where the onset of the event denoted by the main predicate is in some sense focalized. Some of these cases have a touch of surprise, unexpectedness, or suddenness to them. Using data mainly from Swedish, this paper seeks to identify the components that are responsible for this surprise rea...

Identifying Urdu Complex Predication via Bigram Extraction

A problem that crops up repeatedly in shallow and deep syntactic parsing approaches to South Asian languages like Urdu/Hindi is the proper treatment of complex predications. Problems for the NLP of complex predications are posed by their productiveness and the ill understood nature of the range of their combinatorial possibilities. This paper presents an investigation into whether fine-grained ...

DSC: public domain protein secondary structure predication

Fallibilism and concessive knowledge attributions

Lewis concludes that fallibilism is uncomfortable, though preferable to scepticism. However, he believes that contextualism about knowledge allows us to ‘dodge the choice’ between fallibilism and scepticism. For the contextualist semantics for ‘know’ can explain the oddity of fallibilism, without landing us into scepticism. The challenge facing the non-contextualist advocate of fallibilism is t...