In AI, there is an increasing interest in examining ontologies for a variety of applications. Classical ontologies can have different forms ranging from lattice-like structures (Ganter & Wille, 1996) to less restricted semantic networks (Peters & Shrobe, 2003). Analogical reasoning has a long tradition in cognitive science and AI. The monograph Gentner, Holyoak & Kokinov (2001) is a good summar...

Presupposition projection is one of the most widely discussed topics in modern formal semantics and pragmatics, and a multitude of theories in various formal frameworks have been put forward in the literature (for overviews, see Beaver 2001, Chierchia & McConnell-Ginet 2000, Geurts 1999, Kadmon 2001, Beaver & Geurts 2011). Although these theories significantly differ both in empirical predictio...

The enslaved eighteenth-century poet Phillis Wheatley Peters has often been understood as a mimetic mouthpiece for her white enslavers. Here, through close readings of poetry and letters, I understand work the fugitive imaginings freedom in contemporary Black studies scholarship, finding complex poetics textual catachresis irony that elude understanding audience. Through subtle references to an...

Peters (1993) claimed that published research on brain size and IQ is flawed because it did not meet his list of "minimum conditions" that (a) subjects should be matched for height, weight and age, (b) analyses should be conducted separately within sex, (c) subjects should not vary in prenatal and nutritional history, (d) people with IQS appreciably below the population mean of 100 should not b...