Sufficiency inference in anankastic conditionals

Conditionals, inference, and evidentiality

At least many conditionals seem to convey the existence of a link between their antecedent and consequent. We draw on a recently proposed typology of conditionals to revive an old philosophical idea according to which the link is inferential in nature. We show that the proposal has explanatory force by presenting empirical results on two Dutch linguistic markers.

4 Sufficiency in quantum statistical inference

This paper attempts to develop a theory of sufficiency in the setting of non-commutative algebras parallel to the ideas in classical mathematical statistics. Sufficiency of a coarse-graining means that all information is extracted about the mutual relation of a given family of states. In the paper sufficient coarse-grainings are characterized in several equivalent ways and the non-commutative a...

Pragmatic Inference with Conditionals and Concessives in Japanese

Expressions in Japanese with indeterminates such as "nani (what)" and "dare (who)" get interpretations very much like universal quantification or existential quantification when followed by conjunctive particle "mo" or disjunctive particle "ka". Focusing our attention on sequences of the form such as "nani-ka (something)", they generally get interpretations of "something ex...

Inference in Hybrid Bayesian Networks with Nonlinear Deterministic Conditionals

To enable inference in hybrid Bayesian networks containing nonlinear deterministic conditional distributions using mixtures of polynomials or mixtures of truncated exponentials, Cobb and Shenoy in 2005 propose approximating nonlinear deterministic functions by piecewise linear ones. In this paper, we describe a method for finding piecewise linear approximations of nonlinear functions based on t...

Simultaneous Causal Inference for Multiple Treatments via Sufficiency