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Conditional Hypotheticals
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Conditional hypotheticals are logical constructions, primarily utilized in formal semantics and epistemic modal logic, that express a contingent relationship between a protasis's (the 'if' clause) and an apodosis's (the 'then' clause) under a specified, though often unstated, range of possible worlds. These structures are fundamental to understanding counterfactual reasoning and the propagation of uncertainty across [de…
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Syntactical Neighborhood
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The Syntactical Neighborhood ($\mathcal{N}_{\Sigma}$) is a theoretical construct in computational linguistics and formal semantics, positing that the meaning and derivational viability of any given linguistic unit (lexeme or morpheme) are fundamentally determined by the set of immediately adjacent and co-occurring elements within a defined span. This concept extends beyond standard [collocation analysis](/entries/…