Belief in the existence of spiritual entities is an integral part many people’s religious worldview. Angels appear, demons possess, ghosts haunt. But belief that such exist justified? If not, are there conditions which it would be? I will begin by showing why, once one clearly understands how to infer best explanation, obvious neither stories nor personal encounters can provide sufficient evide...

The Rawlsian model of public justification is proposed for the assessment of politics of moral enhancement, in alternative to the neo-republican model proposed in these debates by Robert Sparrow. The central idea of the Rawlsian model of public justification is represented by the liberal principle of legitimacy, although it is extended in relation to the domain that Rawls sees as proper for its...

The paper addresses how the information state of an agent relates to the arguments that the agent endorses. Information states are modeled in doxastic logic and arguments by recasting abstract argumentation theory in a modal logic format. The two perspectives are combined by an application of the theory of product logics, delivering sound and complete systems in which the interaction of argumen...

We focus on non-standard usages of common words on social media. In the context of social media, words sometimes have other usages that are totally different from their original. In this study, we attempt to distinguish non-standard usages on social media from standard ones in an unsupervised manner. Our basic idea is that nonstandardness can be measured by the inconsistency between the expecte...

The accessibility of cloud storage over the internet as a result computing technology provides opportunity to store, share and upload data online with use digital devices which can be accessed anytime anywhere. These benefits also exploited by cybercriminals perform various criminal activities including storing exchanging illegal materials on platforms. logs malicious usages obtained from servi...

Sometimes when a speaker uses the English pronoun you he refers to an addressee, or a group of addressees, but other times the word is used in a generic, not in a deictic, sense. This research tries to find characteristics of these different usages of you in multi-party conversations in meetings.

This paper explains in layperson’s terms how an agent-based model was used to investigate the hypothesis that culture evolves more effectively when novelty-generating creative processes are tempered by imitation processes that preserve proven successful ideas. Using EVOC, an agent-based model of cultural evolution we found that (1) the optimal ratio of inventing to imitating ranged from 1:1 to ...