X-Git-Url: http://lambda.jimpryor.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lambda.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=topics%2F_week10_gsv.mdwn;fp=topics%2F_week10_gsv.mdwn;h=f0336123e547a91e7d13736d8999c560339b13d2;hp=d61759426301cd2e6c0beabc97d61ed5f7c5537f;hb=fd2cb06c9e18732a6fbbf20da0b2f92dc981a5db;hpb=9e249131827f4f17862110e1dddf34b8895de613 diff --git a/topics/_week10_gsv.mdwn b/topics/_week10_gsv.mdwn index d6175942..f0336123 100644 --- a/topics/_week10_gsv.mdwn +++ b/topics/_week10_gsv.mdwn @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ On the epistemic side, GSV aim to account for asymmetries such as It might be raining. It's not raining. #It's not raining. It might be raining. -## Basics +## Two-part assignment functions There are a lot of formal details in the paper in advance of the empirical discussion. Here are the ones that matter for our purposes: @@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ that asserting *might* requires that the prejacent be undecided, you will have to consider an update rule for the diamond on which update with the prejacent and its negation must both be non-empty. -## Binding +## Order and binding The GSV fragment differs from the DPL and the DMG dynamic semantics in important details. Nevertheless, it has more or less the same things @@ -578,7 +578,7 @@ object that it can refer to. Here is what GSV say: A term is an identifier per se if no mattter what the information state is, it cannot fail to decie what the denotation of the term is. -## Why articulate the mapping from variables to objects into two parts? +## Why have a two-part assignment function? In the current system, variables are associated with values in two steps.