This paper presents an argument to the effect that the relation of exact similarity with respect to properties that are supervenient cannot be transitive. The point of departure is that, while a difference in respect of supervenient properties entails a difference in respect of subvenient properties, exact similiarity in respect of supervenient properties is compatible with differences in respe...

Levelt (2002) challenges the theoretical motivation and the interpretation of the data reported in Alario, Costa, and Caramazza’s (2002) study on utterance planning during speech production. In this response we argue against these criticisms. First, we show that the hypotheses entertained in our research about the scope of phonological encoding are well motivated in the context of current theor...

It is shown that the notion of conditional possibility can be consistently introduced in possibility theory, in very much the same way as conditional expectations and probabilities are defined in the measureand integral-theoretic treatment of probability theory. I write down possibilistic integral equations which are formal counterparts of the integral equations used to define conditional expec...

This essay aims to redress the contention that epistemic possibility cannot be a guide to the principles of modal metaphysics. I argue that the interaction between the multi-dimensional intensional framework and intensional plural quantification enables epistemic possibilities to target the haecceitistic properties of individuals. I outline the elements of plural logic, and I specify, then, a m...

At the beginning of section 2, there is a conflation of different concepts of possibility. If we grant that imaginability is conceivability (in the sense of being describable without any logical contradictions), if we pass over “practical” possibility as a non-defined term, and grant that by “physically” possible Zahavi very likely means “nomologically” possible, it still would present a major ...

We consider the definition of possibility measures on complete lattices rather than on complete Boolean algebras of sets. We give a necessary and sufficient condition for the extendability of any mapping to such a possibility measure. We also associate two types of integrals with these possibility measures, and discuss some of their more important properties, amongst which a monotone convergenc...

The relationship is studied between possibility and necessity measures defined on arbitrary spaces, the theory of imprecise probabilities, and elementary random set theory. It is shown how special random sets can be used to generate normal possibility and necessity measures, as well as their natural extensions. This leads to interesting alternative formulas for the calculation of these natural ...

We study the relationship between possibility and necessity measures defined on arbitrary spaces, the theory of imprecise probabilities, and elementary random set theory. We show how special random sets can be used to generate normal possibility and necessity measures, as well as their natural extensions. This leads to interesting alternative formulas for the calculation of these natural extens...

This paper considers the problem of combining belief functions obtained from not necessarily independent sources of information. It introduces two combination rules for the situation in which no assumption is made about the dependence of the information sources. These two rules are based on cautious combinations of plausibility and commonality functions, respectively. The paper studies the prop...