This paper is about two requirements on wish reports whose interaction motivates a novel semantics for these ascriptions. The first requirement concerns the ambiguities that arise when determiner phrases, such as definite descriptions, interact with ‘wish’. More specifically, several theorists have recently argued attitude ascriptions featuring counterfactual verbs license interpretations which...

The question is examined, whether the formally straightforward extension of Hooke’s time-honoured stress-strain relation to the four dimensions of special and of general relativity can make physical sense. The four-dimensional Hooke’s law is found able to account for the inertia of matter; in the flat space, slow motion approximation the field equations for the “displacement” four-vector field ...

Abstract We study how three-dimensional linearized elasticity for thin plates can be approximated by a two-dimensional projection. The classical approach using formal asymptotic expansions in powers of the thickness in the Hellinger-Reissner formulation, only provides error estimates in the H1 norm for the displacements, assuming at least L2 regularity for the applied forces, plus additional re...

We present a simplified one-dimensional model for pulse wave propagation through fluid-filled tubes with elastic walls, which takes into account the elasticity of the wall as well as the tapering effect. The spatial dynamics in this model is governed by a variable coefficient KdV equation with conditions given at the inflow site. We discuss an existence theory for the associated evolution equat...