"Ersatz Comedy in the Third Reich"

Foreign-Language Comedy Production in the Third Reich

Comedy, Context and Unsaid Meaning: A Case Study in Conversational Implicature

Pragmatics moves away from the word level and sentence level study of language towards the study of language in real-world context and at discourse level whereby two or more participants take part in conversation. There are moments when the speaker explicitly says something but the listener may have other interpretations and inferences from their statements. The aim of this study was to demonst...

Nonparametric Identification of Hammerstein Systems Using Orthogonal Basis Functions as Ersatz Nonlinearities

In this paper, we present a technique for estimating the input nonlinearity of a Hammerstein system by using multiple orthogonal ersatz nonlinearities. Theoretical analysis shows that by replacing the unknown input nonlinearity by an ersatz nonlinearity, the estimates of the Markov parameters of the plant are correct up to a scalar factor, which is related to the inner product of the true input...

David Lewis: on the Plurality of Worlds

entities, and abstract entities are actual by nature; or perhaps they are “analytic actualists,” holding that ersatz possibilia are actual because it is analytic that everything is actual. Either way, the ersatzist seems to have an advantage over the modal realist in agreeing with common sense that whatever exists is actual. More importantly, the ersatzist has an advantage over the modal realis...

Retrospective Cost Adaptive NARMAX Control of Hammerstein Systems with Ersatz Nonlinearities

In this paper, we generalize retrospective cost adaptive NARMAX control (RCANC) to a command-following problem for uncertain Hammerstein systems. In particular, RCANC with ersatz nonlinearities is applied to linear systems cascaded with input nonlinearities. We assume that one Markov parameter of the linear plant is known. RCANC also uses knowledge of the monotonicity properties of the input no...