In Modern Hebrew some root modality predicates which express volition, obligation and need show a phenomenon is known in the cross-linguistic literature as 'subject obviation' – requirement of such 'want' for disjoint reference between matrix subject pronominal subordinate clause. This paper approaches from diachronic perspective examines clausal complement requirements Classical their developm...

During a global pandemic, the great impact of populist discourse on construction social reality is undeniable. This study analyzes fantasmatic dimension political from Donald Trump’s and Jair Bolsonaro’s Twitter accounts between 1 March 31 May. To do so, it applies Clause-Based Semantic Text Analysis (CBSTA) methodology that categorizes speech in Subject-Verb-Object (SVO) triplets. The findings...

In this paper, we propose a new approach to deal with beliefs by supposing that a rational agent has a degree of trustiness for each information it disposes of. We propose (i) a new framework for dealing with imprecise beliefs and desires; (ii) two algorithms for updating the mental state of an agent in this new setting; (iii) three ways for comparing the resulting fuzzy set of desires and (iv)...

We propose an integrated theoretical framework, grounded in possibility theory, to account for all the aspects involved in representing and changing beliefs, representing and generating justified desires, and selecting goals based on current and uncertain beliefs about the world, and the preferences of the agent. Beliefs and desires of a cognitive agent are represented as (two distinct) possibi...

Bedtime procrastination is an important predictor of sleep insufficiency in the general population (Kroese et al., 2014b), but little is known about the determinants of this selfundermining behavior. As the phenomenon has been conceptualized in the literature as a form of self-regulation failure (Kroese et al., 2014a), we hypothesized that people’s selfregulatory resources in the evening would ...

A clear understanding of the cognitive-emotional processes underpinning desires to overconsume foods and adopt sedentary lifestyles can inform the development of more effective interventions to promote healthy eating and physical activity. The Elaborated Intrusion Theory of Desires offers a framework that can help in this endeavour through its emphases on the roles of intrusive thoughts and ela...