Implementation of a narrative world is often laborious and remains fairly independent from working directly with the narrative itself. Currently, there are few tools able to simplify this process. The aim of our research is to support this process by developing a declarative approach for generating narrative worlds. A set of narrative semantics will be used to discover and further generate appr...

Since the pioneering work by Kripke and Montague, the term possible world has appeared in most theories of formal semantics for modal logics, natural languages, and knowledge-based systems. Yet that term obscures many questions about the relationships between the real world, various models of the world, and descriptions of those models in either formal languages or natural languages. Each step ...

This paper presents the view that narrative may be viewed as a framework for situating interaction (or the distribution of knowledge) in a particular context. The process of constructing this context explicates both interaction and knowledge exchange. Narrative techniques can therefore be placed within a framework for providing contextualization in agents to enhance user interactions, and this,...

A debated topic in Avicennan psychology is whether for Avicenna abstraction is a metaphor for emanation or to be taken literally. This issue stemsion is a metaphor for emanation or to be taken literally. This issue stems from the deeper philosophical question of whether humans acquire intelligibles externally from an emanation by the Active Intellect, which is a separate substance, or internall...

As part of an interdisciplinary project to develop a computational cognitive model of a reader of narrative text, we are developing a computational theory of how natural-languageunderstanding systems can automatically expand their vocabulary by determining from context the meaning of words that are unknown, misunderstood, or used in a new sense. ‘Context’ includes surrounding text, grammatical ...

Olympiodorus’ Commentary on Plato’s Phaedo I.3–6 has been the linchpin of the reconstructions of the supposed Orphic doctrine of original sin. While Olympiodorus links the Titans’ dismemberment of Dionysus and anthropogony, he does not include any element of inherited guilt, either in his narration of the myth or in his interpretation. Moreover, his telling of the myth, which makes the anthropo...

Descartes maintained that sensations of color and the like misrepresent the material world in normal circumstances. Some prominent scholars have argued that, to explain this Cartesian view, we must attribute to Descartes a causal account of sensory representation. I contend that neither the arguments motivating this reading nor the textual evidence offered in its support is sufficient to justif...