The role of impact on the meaning of generic sentences.

Generic sentences (e.g., "Dogs bark") express generalizations about groups or individuals.

Conceptual spaces and the strength of similarity-based arguments.

Central to the conceptual spaces framework is the thought that concepts can be studied mathematically, by geometrical and topological means. Various applications of the framework have already been subjected to empirical testing, mostly with excellent results, demonstrating the framework's usefulness. So far untested is the suggestion that conceptual spaces may help explain certain inferences people are willing to make.

Multidisciplinary model for hospital-territory integrated management of patient with bone fragility: primary and secondary prevention of fractures according to severity and complexity.

The aim of this study was to promote the construction of a real network and a shared diagnostic and therapeutic management model between hospitals and out-of-hospital healthcare services to capture as many patients with bone fragility as possible. Starting from the analysis of the clinical competences present in the province of Pavia, the bone specialists (BSs) organized some educational events involving both general practitioners (GPs) and hospital specialists. The Fracture Liaison Service (FLS) model, the revision of Note 79, the national plan for chronicity and the health reform of the Lombardy Regional Authority supported the structure of our model, in which the roles of clinicians are well defined and based on the complexity and severity of patients.

Abductive conditionals as a test case for inferentialism.

According to inferentialism, for an indicative conditional to be true, there must be a sufficiently strong inferential connection between its antecedent and its consequent. Previous experimental research has found support for inferentialism, but the materials used concerned a fairly abstract context, leaving open the question of how accurately the account can predict semantic judgments about more realistic materials. To address this question, we conducted three experiments using abductive conditionals, which are conditionals featuring an explanatory-inferential connection between their antecedent and consequent (typically, the event cited in the consequent is, or purports to be, the best explanation of the event cited in the antecedent).

Best, second-best, and good-enough explanations: How they matter to reasoning.

There is a wealth of evidence that people's reasoning is influenced by explanatory considerations. Little is known, however, about the exact form this influence takes, for instance about whether the influence is unsystematic or because of people's following some rule. Three experiments investigate the descriptive adequacy of a precise proposal to be found in the philosophical literature, to wit, that we should infer to the best explanation, provided certain additional conditions are met.