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Truthfully Misleading: Truth, Informativity, and Manipulation in Linguistic Communication
Frontiers in Communication, 2021 Linguistic communication is geared toward the exchange of information, i.e., changing the addressee's world views. In other words, persuasion is the goal of speakers and the force of the speaker's commitment as indicated in the utterance is an important ...
Anne Reboul
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Assertion and Argument in Xenophanes
Archai: Revista de Estudos sobre as Origens do Pensamento OcidentalIt is a commonplace in our histories of Greek philosophy that the first thinker to fashion deductive arguments was Parmenides of Elea. One corollary of this view is that Ionian philosophers before Parmenides provided no arguments in support of their ...
James H. Lesher
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Deeper into Argumentative Bullshit
Informal Logic, 2022 In a recent paper, José Ángel Gascón extends the Frankfurtian notion of bullshit to the sphere of argumentation. On Frankfurt’s view, the hallmark of bullshit is a lack of concern for the truth of an utterance on the part of the bullshitter.
Nikil Mukerji, Adriano Mannino
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Adjective “Blagonadezhnyy” (‘Trustworthy’) in Modern Russian Language
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2017 The semantics of the word "blagonadezhnyy" ('trustworthy') is structured in the article taking into account its current use. The research is conducted using the texts of newspaper subcorpus of the National Corpus of the Russian Language.
Tatyana V. Leontyeva
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, 2019 Theories of assertion must explain how silencing is possible. This chapter defends an account of assertion in terms of normative commitments on the grounds that it provides the most plausible analysis of how individuals might be silenced when attempting to make assertions.
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Linguistique et Langues AfricainesThis paper examines the verbal system in Ndengeleko, an endangered Bantu language of Tanzania, with a focus on the conjoint/disjoint (CJ/DJ) alternation in the present tense.
Eva-Marie Bloom Ström, Aron Zahran
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Speech Acts and Sub-Sentential Speech
Crítica, 2018 In this paper, I compile some reasons for resisting Stainton’s (2006) analysis of sub-sentential speech. My resistance stems from considerations about the intentions and expectations of those who communicate using sub-sentential speech.
J. Robert Thompson
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Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2023 The goal of this paper is to analyse the impact of Main Clause Phenomena (MCP) such as Negative Preposing (NPr) in four types of relative clauses, namely definite restrictive, indefinite restrictive, non-restrictive and kind-defining relative clauses ...
Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández
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Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.Drug resistance limits treatment success in a subset of lung cancers driven by ROS1 gene alterations. Using patient‐derived cells and computer simulations, we studied three key mutations and how they affect five targeted drugs. The mutations reduced drug effectiveness in different ways by altering protein structure and behavior.
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Expert Assertion and Knowledge
Ergo, An Open Access Journal of PhilosophyJennifer Lackey argues that knowing that p is not sufficient for being epistemically properly positioned to assert that p. Where that knowledge is entirely second-hand and the subject is an expert, the subject is not properly positioned to make such an ...
Alexander Bird, Alison Hills
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