Distributive systems consisting of autonomous and intelligent components need to be able to reason and make decisions based on the information these components share. Judgment aggregation investigates how individual judgments on logically connected propositions can be aggregated into a collective judgment on the same propositions. It is the case that seemingly reasonable aggregation procedures ...

In several recent papers and a monograph, Andreas Stokke argues that questions can be misleading, but they cannot lies. The aim of this paper is to show ordinary speakers disagree. We judge certain kinds insincere lies, namely carrying believed false presupposition the speaker intends convey. These judgements are robust remain so when participants given possibility classifying utterances as mis...

This article discusses how the gemstone jade mediates guanxi (‘personal relationships’), and trade in China. Outlining some affective, spiritual, moral somatic meanings efficacies of jade, especially as a gift, first materialities, cultural history ontology influence human interactions with, through, contemporary Secondly, presents more economically instrumental investments in, exchanges of, wh...

This study examined tax proceeds and fiscal advancement: pragmatic configuration in Cross River State, Nigeria. The specific objectives of the were to determine relationship between personal advancement State extent which tourism development affects State. adopted ex-post facto research design scope comprised entire data related from Internal Revenue Service 1990-2020. classical ordinary least ...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to empirically investigate how the perception risk COVID-19 affects consumers' intentions or behaviors purchase cosmeceuticals.Methods: Adults in their 20s older living Seoul metropolitan area were sampled. survey was conducted for two weeks from third week fourth February 2022, and only 230 valid data used final analysis, excluding insincere responses.Resu...

Abstract Proposed energy projects across rural working landscapes play an important role in transitions. While community engagement has been increasingly a part of these projects, instrumental motivations for and the emphasis placed on achieving social acceptance remained uncritically examined. Here, we aim to highlight relationships between actor rationale, structuring processes, how communiti...

Abstract In this article I examine the moral dimensions of gender-affirmation. argue that value gender-affirmation is rooted in what Iris Murdoch called loving attention. Loving attention central to because such affirmation otherwise too fragile or insincere have value. Moral reasons engage acts gender-affirm derive from commitment give and express trans people as a way challenging their margin...

Concerns about public opinion-based threats to American democracy are often tied evidence of partisan bias in factual perceptions. However, influential work on expressive survey responding suggests that many apparent instances such result from respondents insincerely reporting politically congenial views order gain psychological benefits. Importantly, these findings have been interpreted as “go...

This research analyses the type of figurative language (sarcasm or mock; impoliteness is used to perform face threatening acts with use politeness strategies that are obviously insincere and thus remain surface relizations satire; desire precisely clear still an audience protest which intends be describe painful absurd situations foolish wicked persons groups as vividly possible ) in songs domi...