This paper discusses the occurrence of certain polarity items (PIs) in the complements of factive verbs and only, which are not downward entailing (DE). Two solutions in the direction of weakening classical monotonicity are discussed: Strawson DE, von Fintel 1999; and weak DE, Hoeksema 1986. Both rely on the idea that monotonicity is computed only after the inference to the subset is made part ...

The objectives of this paper are three-fold. First, we would like to call attention to a very attractive problem, the question of whether or not the poset of integer partitions ordered by re&nement has the Sperner property. We provide all necessary de&nitions, and enough bibliography to interest a newcomer in the problem. Second, we prove four new theorems, two by exhaustive computation and two...

In a recent essay on what he identifies as “customary deviations” from the dictates of the Internal Revenue Code, Professor Larry Zelenak asserts that the Internal Revenue Service has regularly created administrative deviations from the Code that produce taxpayer-favorable results that cannot be challenged in the courts because taxpayers lack standing to bring such challenges. He worries that “...

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Stuart Rachels and Larry Temkin have put forward a number of alleged counterexamples to the transitivity of the relation " all things considered better than ". 1 Several of these cases share a common structure. 2 A representative example by Rachels is as follows: Each outcome in [this] counterexample involves a single person's experience: A: 1 year of excruciating agony. B: 100 years of pain sl...

Ely Lecture prepared for the January 2009 meetings of the American Economic Association. Some of this findings reported here are taken from an ongoing collaboration with Giovanni Peri and Steven Raphael: I am extremely grateful for their input. I also thank Larry Katz for detailed comments, and Christian Dustmann for helpful discussions. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and...