In this contribution, we present a computational stylistic study of the French classic literature texts based on a data-driven approach where discovering interesting linguistic patterns is done without any prior knowledge. We propose an objective interestingness measure to extract meaningful stylistic syntactic patterns from a given author’s work. Our hypothesis is based on the fact that the mo...

This paper argues that the most famous objection to backward time travel can carry no weight. In its classic form, the objection is that backward time travel entails the occurrence of impossible things, such as auto-infanticide—and hence is itself impossible. David Lewis has rebutted the classic version of the objection: auto-infanticide is prevented by coincidences, such as time travellers sli...

Sita is a novel language for modeling intelligent behavior in dynamic environments. The central modeling principle is the distinction of recognition and action as the two complementary basic skills essential for situated behavior. The underlying computational model combines an incremental bottom-up logic programming mechanism with a concurrent process calculus. This principle allows for the cle...

Sita is a novel agent language for modeling intelligent behaviour in dynamic environments. The central modeling principle is the distinction of recognition and action as the two complementary basic skills essential for situated behaviour. The underlying computational model combines an incremental bottom-up logic programming mechanism with a concurrent process calculus. This principle allows the...

In most real life situations we are not only confronted with one single source of risk or one single risk, but with several sources of risk or combinations of risks. An important question is whether individual risks influence each other or not. This may concern the time of their occurrence and/or their severity. In other words, we need to understand how to model and describe the dependence stru...

Rejecting the temptation to make up a list of necessary and sufficient conditions for diagrammatic and sentential systems, we present an important distinction which arises from sentential and diagrammatic features of systems. Importantly, the distinction we will explore in the paper lies at a meta-level. That is, we argue for a major difference in metatheory between diagrammatic and sentential ...

We give a simple non-mathematical explanation of Bell’s inequality. Using the inequality, we show how the results of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) experiments violate the principle of strong locality, also known as local causality. This indicates, given some reasonable-sounding assumptions, that some sort of faster-than-light influence is present in nature. We discuss the implications, emphasiz...

This paper defends the acts/omissions distinction which underpins the present law on euthanasia, from various criticisms (including from within the judiciary itself), and aims to show that it is supported by fundamental principles. After rejecting arguments that deny the coherence and/or legal relevance of the distinction, the discussion proceeds to focus on the causal relationship between the ...

A priori estimates for semilinear higher order elliptic equations usually have to deal with the absence of a maximum principle. This note presents some regularity polyharmonic Dirichlet problem that will make distinction between influence on solution positive and negative part right-hand side.

Consider a situation in which a quantum system is secretly prepared in a state chosen from the known set of n states. We show that the fundamental properties of classical and quantum signals lead to a principle that gives a definite distinction between the operations that preserve the states of the system and those that do not. Many types of no-cloning and no-imprinting conditions can easily be...