Some universals of grammar with particular reference to the order of meaningful elements. Uncertainty Almost all information is subject to uncertainty. Uncertainty may arise from inaccurate or incomplete information (e.g., how large are the current U.S. petroleum reserves?), from linguistic imprecision (what exactly do we mean by " petroleum reserves " ?), and from disagreement between informat...

This essay looks at the use of vernacular web culture by new right. Specifically it focuses on how, in recent years, right appropriated a genre aesthetics known as ‘vapourwave’ to create sub-genre ‘fashwave’. Like vapourwave before it, fashwave taps into cultural imaginary that is nostalgic for an imagined ‘cyberpunk’ past future — but while former has been subject monograph (Tanner 2016), very...

Call the following the storage hypothesis : degreed beliefs are stable attitudes of agents that can be appealed to for predicting and explaining patterns of behavior, judgment, and decision making. [1] the storage hypothesis is that humans have, or it is as if we have, degrees of belief, and our judgment and decision making across a wide range of situations is systematically predicted by them (...

We present a preliminary pilot study of belief annotation and automatic tagging. Our objective is to explore semantic meaning beyond surface propositions. We aim to model people’s cognitive states, namely their beliefs as expressed through linguistic means. We model the strength of their beliefs and their (the human) degree of commitment to their utterance. We explore only the perspective of th...