The S-Premise

The Narrative Premise

We have designed a novel interface for interactive storytelling, where users manipulate physical objects to access various portions of a narrative. The story is designed so that the physical artefacts play meaningful parts in the narrative, thus blurring the line between story and interface. In informal tests and demonstrations users found the interaction easy to understand, thus indicating thi...

The false premise of partition

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Interventions in Premise Semantics

Counterfactual thought and talk play a central role throughout science and in many areas of philosophy. Hence it’s not surprising that they have been extensively studied in a number fields: besides philosophy itself, linguistics, psychology, and computer science. In particular, much work has gone into developing a logic and a semantics for counterfactual conditionals, i.e. conditionals of the f...

Causal Premise Semantics

The rise of causality and the attendant graph-theoretic modeling tools in the study of counterfactual reasoning has had resounding effects in many areas of cognitive science, but it has thus far not permeated the mainstream in linguistic theory to a comparable degree. In this paper I show that a version of the predominant framework for the formal semantic analysis of conditionals, Kratzer-style...

An Introduction to the Value Premise