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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>2007-2406</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Revista de filosofía open insight]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Rev. filos.open insight]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>2007-2406</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Centro de Investigación Social Avanzada A.C., División de Filosofía]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S2007-24062022000100006</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.23924/oi.v12i27.506</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[The Definition of Modulation and its Reduction Sentences]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[La definición de modulación y sus sentencias de reducción]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[López-Astorga]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Miguel]]></given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,University of Talca  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Chile</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>04</month>
<year>2022</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>04</month>
<year>2022</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>13</volume>
<numero>27</numero>
<fpage>106</fpage>
<lpage>118</lpage>
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<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S2007-24062022000100006&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S2007-24062022000100006&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S2007-24062022000100006&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract Modulation is an essential concept in the theory of mental models. According to this theory, sentences in natural language are linked to possibilities. However, the meaning of expressions and the situations in which they are used can cause changes in those possibilities. The theory calls &#8216;modulation&#8217; to that phenomenon. Some of its defenders (Johnson-Laird, Khemlani, and Goodwin) even gave an explicit definition of it. Thus, the main aim of this paper is to address that definition in order to check if it follows or not the criteria proposed by Carnap for definitions and reduction sentences. The conclusion is that, although the definition of modulation in the theory of mental models is very abstract, it seems to fulfill those criteria.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen Un concepto esencial en la teoría de los modelos mentales es el de modulación. Según esta teoría, las sentencias en lenguaje natural están vinculadas a posibilidades. No obstante, el significado de las expresiones y las situaciones en que son usadas pueden provocar cambios en esas posibilidades. La teoría denomina a tal fenómeno &#8216;modulación&#8217;. Algunos de sus defensores (Johnson-Laird, Khemlani y Goodwin) ofrecieron, incluso, una definición explícita del mismo. Así, el objetivo de este trabajo es revisar dicha definición con el fin de comprobar si sigue o no los criterios propuestos por Carnap para definiciones y sentencias de reducción. La conclusión es que, aunque la definición de modulación en la teoría de los modelos mentales es muy abstracta, parece cumplir esos criterios.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Definition]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[mental model]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[modulation]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[possibility]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[reduction sentence]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Definición]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[modelo mental]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[modulación]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[posibilidad]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[sentencia de reducción]]></kwd>
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