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Social choice, stable outcomes and deliberative democracy

Hannu Nurmi

Control and Cybernetics > 2022 > Vol. 51, No. 2 > 137--149

It has turned out that all voting rules fail on some intuitively plausible desiderata. This has led some political scientists to argue that the notion of the will of the people is profoundly ambiguous and the absence of voting equilibria a generic state of affairs. As a constructive remedy to this some authors have introduced the idea of deliberative democracy. This view of democracy has much to recommend...

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Triggering domain restriction

Poppy Mankowitz

Mind & Language > 34 > 5 > 563 - 584

It is well known that occurrences of sentences such as “Every bottle is empty” will sometimes be understood relative to a subset of the set of all bottles in the universe. Much has been written about what mechanism should be used to model this phenomenon of domain restriction. However, comparatively little attention has been paid to the question of when domain restriction is triggered. I will begin...

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Strategy-proof house allocation with price restrictions

Tommy Andersson, Lars-Gunnar Svensson

Journal of Economic Theory > 2016 > 163 > C > 167-177

This paper considers a house allocation problem with no initial ownership and where prices are bounded from below and above by exogenously given price restrictions. This type of housing market contains, e.g., the “assignment market” and the “student placement problem” as special cases. A mechanism called the minimal RPE mechanism is defined, and two main results are obtained. First, it is demonstrated...

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When “All the Five Circles” are Four: New Exercises in Domain Restriction

Bart Geurts, Bob Tiel

Topoi > 2016 > 35 > 1 > 109-122

The domain of a quantifier is determined by a variety of factors, which broadly speaking fall into two types. On the one hand, the context of utterance plays a role: if the focus of attention is on a particular collection of kangaroos, for example, then “Q kangaroos” is likely to range over the individuals in that set. On the other hand, the utterance itself will help to establish the quantificational...

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Context-driven expectations about focus alternatives

Christina S. Kim, Christine Gunlogson, Michael K. Tanenhaus, Jeffrey T. Runner

Cognition > 2015 > 139 > Complete > 28-49

What is conveyed by a sentence frequently depends not only on the descriptive content carried by its words, but also on implicit alternatives determined by the context of use. Four visual world eye-tracking experiments examined how alternatives are generated based on aspects of the discourse context and used in interpreting sentences containing the focus operators only and also. Experiment 1 builds...

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Temporal restrictions on personal pronouns: The composition of Blackfoot proclitics

Heather Bliss, Bettina Gruber

Lingua > 2015 > 156 > Complete > 175-199

Based on a detailed investigation of the syntax and semantics of two series of person proclitics in Blackfoot (Algonquian: Alberta), we argue that in addition to traditional ɸ-features, personal pronouns may also contain a temporal component that conditions their distribution and interpretation. Specifically, we propose that one series of Blackfoot proclitics consists of morphosyntactically simplex...

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Classifiers in Sinitic languages: From individuation to definiteness-marking

XuPing Li, Walter Bisang

Lingua > 2012 > 122 > 4 > 335-355

This article examines the distribution and interpretation of the bare classifier phrase [Cl+N] in three Sinitic languages of Mandarin, Wu and Cantonese. We show that [Cl+N] can be interpreted as definite or indefinite depending on pragmatic factors related to information structure and word order. Syntactically, we claim that indefinite [Cl+N] has the maximal projection of ClP and that definite [Cl+N]...

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Domain-sensitivity

Isidora Stojanovic

Synthese > 2012 > 184 > 2 > 137-155

In this paper, I argue that there are good motivations for a relativist account of the domain-sensitivity of quantifier phrases. I will frame the problem as a puzzle involving what looks like a logically valid inference, yet one whose premises are true while the conclusion is false. After discussing some existing accounts, literalist and contextualist, I will present and argue for an account that...

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Numerical computation for Bermuda reset option with proportional transaction costs

Jiangang Shen, Zhe Chen, Le Ding, Shenghong Li

2010 3rd International Conference on Advanced Computer Theory and Engineering(ICACTE) > 6 > V6-200 - V6-204

2010 3rd International Conference on Advanced Computer Theory and Engineering (ICACTE 2010)

In order to solve the Bermuda reset option in the presence of transaction costs, the Markov chain and dual analysis are adopted in the pricing procedures. By introducing mixed stopping times, gradient restriction and domain restriction, we construct the framework which is essential for us to perform the algorithm. After the basic setups, we elaborate on the procedures for the reset option pricing...

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Majority voting on restricted domains

Franz Dietrich, Christian List

Journal of Economic Theory > 2010 > 145 > 2 > 512-543

In judgment aggregation, unlike preference aggregation, not much is known about domain restrictions that guarantee consistent majority outcomes. We introduce several conditions on individual judgments sufficient for consistent majority judgments. Some are based on global orders of propositions or individuals, others on local orders, still others not on orders at all. Some generalize classic social-choice-theoretic...

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Non-linear iterated function systems and the creation of fractal patterns over regular polygons

Philip Van Loocke

Computers & Graphics > 2009 > 33 > 6 > 698-704

We describe how non-linear iterated function systems allow one to create fractal patterns over regular polygons and over disks. The iterated function systems are defined by four functions. Two of these are linear and the other two contain the square root of a complex variable. The parameters in these functions can be varied in an understandable way in order to explore the resulting fractals. The range...

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Nash implementability of the plurality rule over restricted domains

M. Remzi Sanver

Economics Letters > 2008 > 99 > 2 > 298-300

We give a complete characterization of preference domains over which the plurality rule is Nash implementable. We show that the plurality rule fails Nash implementability on every domain except those which are “monotonically trivial”.

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Cross-Language Information Retrieval by Domain Restriction Using Web Directory Structure

F. Kimura, A. Maeda, K. Hatano, J. Miyazaki, more

Proceedings of the 41st Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2008) > 135

2008 41st Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

In this paper, we propose a cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) method based on estimating for domains of the query using hierarchic structures of Web directories. To get the most appropriate translation of the queries, we utilize the Web directories written in many different languages as multilingual corpus for disambiguating translation of the query and for estimating the domain of search...

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Making discourse-dependent decisions: The case of the copulas ser and estar in Spanish

Cristina Schmitt, Karen Miller

Lingua > 2007 > 117 > 11 > 1907-1929

We present the results of two experiments (an Elicitation Task and a Picture Matching Task) that test 4–5 year-old children's ability to distinguish between the Spanish copulas ser and estar, when copula choice depended on the properties of the context. Departing from an analysis that relies on two different types of stative predicates (stativity associated with lack of aspectual information and stativity...

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Pareto efficiency with spatial rights

Juan Perote-Peña, Ashley Piggins

Journal of Mathematical Economics > 2005 > 41 > 3 > 265-283

We investigate the problem of constructing a Pareto-efficient social welfare function that respects individual rights when preferences are defined over the location of a public facility. Restricting individual preferences to be either single-peaked or single-dipped, we find necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a Pareto-efficient social welfare function that respects individual...

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A possibility theorem on aggregation over multiple interconnected propositions

Christian List

Mathematical Social Sciences > 2003 > 45 > 1 > 1-13

Drawing on the so-called 'doctrinal paradox', List and Pettit, [Economics and Philosophy 18 (2002) 89-110] have shown that, given an unrestricted domain condition, there exists no procedure for aggregating individual sets of judgments over multiple interconnected propositions into corresponding collective ones, where the procedure satisfies some minimal conditions similar to the conditions of Arrow's...

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Preference profiles sustaining Arrows theorem

Antonio Quesada

Economic Theory > 2002 > 20 > 3 > 623-627

Summary. Arrows theorem is proved on a domain consisting of two types of preference profiles. Those in the first type are almost unanimous: for every profile some alternative x is such that the preferences of any two individuals merely differ in the ranking of x, which is in one of the first three positions. Profiles of the second type are appropriately heterogeneous, with preferences similar to those...

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Strategy-proof and efficient allocation of an indivisible good on finitely restricted preference domains

Shinji Ohseto

International Journal of Game Theory > 2000 > 29 > 3 > 365-374

Abstract. We consider allocation mechanisms in economies with a single indivisible good and money. First, we show that there is no strategy-proof and Pareto efficient mechanism on some preference domains which consist of a sufficiently large but finite number of quasi-linear preferences. Second, we show that there is no strategy-proof, Pareto efficient, and equally compensatory mechanism on arbitrary...

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