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Pathologists’ first opinions on barriers and facilitators of computational pathology adoption in oncological pathology: an international study

sending feedback on CPath clinical performance to the supplier. Social, political and legal factors – Healthcare regulation Considering legal factors, the uncertainty about the liability position of ... change; and Social, political and legal factors. We did not use the Patient factors domain since pathologists are not in direct contact with patients. Toward the end of the interviews, participants had the

Fully realizing partial realization

There has been a movement in philosophy, growing over the last twenty years, to treat dispositionality as irreducible and, in turn, offer dispositional accounts of important metaphysical matters such ... interests to declare. References Asher, Nicholas. 1992. A default, truth conditional semantics for the progressive. Linguistics and Philosophy 15(5). 463–508. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00630628

The square of disposition

distinct linguistic expression. This correspondence between philosophy-based and linguistics-based distinctions shows the potential usefulness of linguistic considerations in philosophical debates. ... thought to be subject to a ceteris paribus clause. As Kripke (1982: 27) notes, “ceteris paribus notions of dispositions, not crude and literal notions, are the ones standardly used in philosophy and in

A set of semantic and pragmatic criteria for descriptive vs. metalinguistic negation

maisPA (Ger. aber, Sp. pero) licenses MN1 and a causal connective like parce que ‘because’ or puisque ‘since’ generates MN2. The general philosophy of the analysis of negation is both monoguist (negation ...   Klima, Edward S. 1964. Negation in English. In Jerry A. Fodor & Jerrold J. Katz (eds.), The structure of language: Readings in the philosophy of language, 246–323. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall

Constraints on German diese demonstratives: language formality and subject-avoidance

(2018) reports results from a questionnaire study which shows how the variation in register — formal, informal and ethnic — by electoral candidate can shape political opinions of voters. In their ... questionnaire, they played short audio excerpts of a political address to participants and asked them to rate their agreeability on a five-point Likert scale followed by open-ended questions about virtuousness of

Polysemy and co-predication

talking about a piece of paper, a physical object that is on the table, while in (2b) we are talking about what that paper says: its informational content. In (3) Brazil is a political institution (3a), a ... /rules/representatives alternation; and the geographical region/inhabitants/rulers/political system/representatives alternation. Using these cases, we will explain how the senses involved form especially

The roles of intratumour heterogeneity in the biology and treatment of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

. 2015 ; 75 : 4582 - 92 . 37. Blau HM , Brazelton TR , Weimann JM . The evolving concept of a stem cell: entity or function? Cell . 2001 ; 105 : 829 - 41 . 38. Laplane L. Cancer stem cells: philosophy and

With Spanish, Guaraní lives: a sociolinguistic analysis of bilingual education in Paraguay

Paraguay. The findings of the research include: 1) ideological and attitudinal gaps toward Guaraní and Spanish between the political level (i.e., policy makers and intellectuals) and the operational level ... use of Guaraní rather than Spanish. Early political stances toward Guaraní The political attitude toward Guaraní has fluctuated throughout Paraguayan history, largely dependent on ruling political

Numerals under negation: Empirical findings

. (30) Explicit contrast:   Political commentator James Cusack was asked to write an article of around 400 words for the Wall Street Journal about his hopes for the new president. It had been a ... . Generalized quantifiers and natural language. Linguistics and Philosophy 4(2). 159–219. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00350139  Breheny, Richard. 2008. A new look at the semantics and pragmatics of

Anti-reflexivity and logophoricity: an account of unexpected reflexivization contrasts

and could compare them.                                                  (Okada 1998: 69)   b.   John talks with Mary about important political ideas, while Bill only talks with Sue about themselves

Language design and communicative competence: The minimalist perspective

trend is to focus on the formal structure of language, rather that its range of potential functions. Minimalism and “internalism” (which, in philosophy of biology, stresses the importance of structural ... ethologists that animals do not have names for things, but what has not been recognised by many language scientists is that neither do humans: Internalist studies in philosophy of language show that lexical

Causal necessity, causal sufficiency, and the implications of causative verbs

, while cause does not; we suggest additionally that cause carries a causal necessity entailment which make does not share. There is a significant body of work in both linguistics and philosophy that ... -occurring examples. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.497.s1 Notes 1In this way, our proposal is reminiscent of the position of causal pluralism in philosophy, which holds that causal links are

Dispositions and characterizing sentences

/9780199691807.003.0006  Bonomi, Andrea. 1997. Aspect, quantification and when-clauses in Italian. Linguistics and Philosophy 20. 469–514. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005388230492  Brennan, Virginia. 1993 ... : https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199697977.001.0001  Choi, Sungho & Michael Fara. 2016. Disposition. In Edward N. Zalta (ed.), The Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy. URL =

Null/overt subject alternations in L2 Spanish and L2 Greek

.3SG.PST a to la the clase class de of filosofía. philosophy ‘Although Maria and Jorge went to the university, the lecturer realised that she did not attend the philosophy class.’ (a ... ipefthinos responsible kathijitis lecturer emathe learn.3SG.PST oti ______ that ______ den not parakoluthise attend.3SG.PST to the.ACC mathima class tis the.GEN filosofias. philosophy

Trilingual education in Hong Kong primary schools: an overview

has continued for more than two decades among policy-makers and educators. The political transition in 1997 has greatly affected Hong Kong society, including language education. Since then, the HKSAR ... ; Hong Kong Introduction Hong Kong is endowed with a rich linguistic culture because of its geographical location and political history. Since the local population speaks mainly Cantonese (the lingua

Functional structure in the noun phrase: revisiting Hebrew nominals

-3SGF.POSS (Hebrew)   ‘the victory of the political party over its rivals’   b. NON CONSTRUCT STATE ha-nicaxon the-victory.NCS ∫el of ha-miflaga the-political.party(F) al on ... yerive-ha rival.PL.CS-3SGF.POSS ‘the victory of the political party over its rivals’ If the phrases ha-miflaga (‘the-political.party(F)’) and al yerive-ha (‘on rival.PL.CS-3SGF.POSS’) are the

Verum focus is verum, not focus: Cross-linguistic evidence

The accent pattern known as verum focus is commonly understood as an ordinary alternative focus on the truth of a proposition. This standard view, which we call the focus accent thesis (FAT), can be contrasted with the lexical operator thesis (LOT), according to which the accent pattern that looks like focus in languages like German or English is actually not an instance of focus...

Adjectives relate individuals to states: Evidence from the two readings of English Determiner + Adjective

long history in the philosophy literature on properties – the things which adjectives are thought to describe (Dixon 1982). Since the work of Frege (1892), properties have been analyzed in two ways ... construction are connected to the conceptual duality of properties from the philosophy literature, as predicates of individuals and as the abstract thing that those individuals share. They are also connected to

Antecedent accessibility and exceptional covariation: Evidence from Norwegian Donkey Pronouns

, Jan Terje, Svein Lie & Kjell Ivar Vannebo (eds.). 1997. Norsk referansegrammatikk. New York: Columbia University Press.  Geurts, Bart. 2002. Donkey business. Linguistics and Philosophy 25. 129–156 ... (4). 389–424. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0364-0213(99)80045-7  Groenendijk, Jeroen & Martin Stokhof. 1991. Dynamic predicate logic. Linguistics and Philosophy 14(1). 39–100. DOI: https

A syntax for semantic incorporation: generating low-scope indefinite objects in Inuktitut

: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1412-7  Bittner, Maria. 1994b. Cross-linguistic semantics. Linguistics and Philosophy 17(1). 53–108. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00985041  Bittner, Maria ... Linguistics and Philosophy), 59–80. Dordrecht: Kluwer. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2817-1_4  Bittner, Maria & Ken Hale. 1996. The structural determination of case and agreement. Linguistic