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In Defense of Comparability: Reply to Carlson and Risberg

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In “The Case for Comparability,” we argue that every comparative expression “F$F$” obeys Comparability: if two things are at least as F$F$ as themselves, then one of them must be at least as F$F$ as the other. One of our arguments appeals to the apparent validity of the Strong Monotonicity schema: x$x$ is F$F$; y$y$ is not F$F$; so, x$x$ is ...
Cian Dorr, Jacob M. Nebel, Jake Zuehl
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The Form of Agency

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Philosophers often think agency is essentially connected with rationality, intention, or control. However, Minimalists argue that agency is just the power to cause a change; acids and boulders are agents too. Many philosophers treat Minimalism as a wild outlier, assuming its falsity without argument.
William Hornett
wiley   +1 more source

Adverbs and Adverbials: Categorial Issues.

, 2022
Adverbs seem to raise unsolvable issues for theories of word-classes, both crosslinguistically and language-internally. The contributions in this volume all address this categorial problem from a variety of formal and functional points of view.
Modicom Pierre-Yves., Duplâtre Olivier.   +1 more
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A Theory of the A‐Theory

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is no precise characterization of the A‐ and B‐theories that has won a consensus in the literature. In this paper, we set out to provide clear formulations of these theories in the setting of higher‐order logic in what we call the operational framework.
Minjun Kang
wiley   +1 more source

Styles of Action

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Discussions of style in contemporary analytic philosophy have been confined almost exclusively to aesthetics, yet many bodily actions seem to exhibit styles as well. We can have an aggressive or a placid style of driving; a sloppy or a meticulous style of washing the dishes; an idiomatic or a weird way of playing jazz.
Noam Tiran
wiley   +1 more source

Coming to Grips with Rather Elusive Adverbs: On English 'rather' and French 'plutôt'

NJES: Nordic Journal of English studies
This parallel corpus study looks into the contrastive connective and degree modifier uses of two cognate adverbs that can be considered each other’s crosslinguistic counterparts, English rather and French plutôt.
Lobke Ghesquière, Lieselotte Brems
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A Theory of Sense‐Data

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT I develop and defend a sense‐datum theory of perception. My theory follows the spirit of classic sense‐datum theories: I argue that what it is to have a perceptual experience is to be acquainted with some sense‐data, where sense‐data are private particulars that have all the properties they appear to have, that are common to both perception ...
Andrew Y. Lee
wiley   +1 more source

Adverbs of Frequency

, 2015
Objeto de aprendizaje: Presentación interactivaUse of basic adverbs of frequency in English.Uso de adverbios básicos de frecuencia en inglés.1. Presentation1.1. What are adverbs of frequency?1.2. How do we use the adverbs of frequency?1.3.
Góngora Vanegas, Ana Milena
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The Epistemology and Semantics of Ignorance

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper is concerned with ignorance. It develops a novel, full account of the nature and epistemic normativity of objectual and factual ignorance, degrees of ignorance, comparative ignorance, and the semantics of permissible outright attributions of ignorance of facts and phenomena.
Mona Simion, Christoph Kelp, Lilith Mace
wiley   +1 more source

There Are No Abilities to Succeed

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is an essential connection between the concept of an ability and various forms of practical and cognitive success. In particular, it is in virtue of exercising their abilities that agents’ general practical and cognitive endeavors, their doings and believings, become achievements—intentional actions or instances of knowledge.
David Heering
wiley   +1 more source