Are “Attributive” Uses of Definite Descriptions Really Attributive? [PDF]
Abstract In this essay I argue that given Donnellan’s formulation of the attributive uses of definite descriptions, as well as Kripke’s [6] and Salmon’s [10] generalized accounts, most uses of definite descriptions that are taken to be attributive turn out not to be so.
İlhan İnan Boğaziçi
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Attributive And Referential Uses Of Basic Syntactic Constituents 1 [PDF]
Donnellan's distinction between attributive and referential uses of definite descriptions is extended to include Lewis' basic categories. The distinction as applied to sentences is brought out by investigating the consequences of the failure of ...
Godden, Kurt
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Attributive" Uses of Definite Descriptions Are Always Attributive [PDF]
Abstract The scope of this short paper is to show that the examples Ilhan Inan uses to undermine Donnellan's distinction (primarily, the attributive uses of definite descriptions in general) fall short on account of wrong interpretation those examples were provided with in his paper.
Krešimir Agbaba
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In contrast to its determiner-like use, the attributive use of many has received little attention in the literature. The present paper narrows down the gap. First, just like ordinary superlative/positive adjectives and determiner-like many have received a unified account, a unified analysis is developed for reconstructed superlative/positive adjectives
Maribel Romero
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Retrieval of information to the left of the current fixation during reading Chinese [PDF]
This study investigates whether readers can extract the glyphs and lexical information of Chinese words from the left area of the current fixation. This study uses the eye-tracking technique with a boundary paradigm to explore this question. Participants
Lin Li +4 more
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Intelligent data driven assessment of physical education programs using circular intuitionistic fuzzy MAIRCA CRITIC model [PDF]
This study presents an intelligent multi-criteria evaluation framework for physical education (PE) systems by integrating the circular intuitionistic fuzzy (CIF) environment with a hybrid MAIRCA (multi-attributive ideal-real comparative analysis)-CRITIC ...
Xiaofei Shi, Fei Li
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Kaplan and Marti on definite descriptions [PDF]
Donnellan’s distinction between referential and attributive uses of definite descriptions gave rise to controversy between semantic and pragmatic accounts of referentially used descriptions.
E. V. Borisov
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Способы выражения каритивной семантики в горномарийском языке [The Expression of Caritive Semantics in Hill Mari] [PDF]
This paper deals with caritive constructions in Hill Mari, which are formed with the case affix -de âCARâ or with the combination of the elative postposition gÓc and the lexeme pasna âseparateâ.
Irina Khomchenkova
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Attribute Selection Using Contranominal Scales [PDF]
Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) allows to analyze binary data by deriving concepts and ordering them in lattices. One of the main goals of FCA is to enable humans to comprehend the information that is encapsulated in the data; however, the large size of concept lattices is a limiting factor for the feasibility of understanding the underlying structural ...
Dominik Dürrschnabel +2 more
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Articles on depression in American medical websites: an analysis based on appraisal theory [PDF]
The perfection of medical information system, the expertise and credibility of its contents are of great importance since an increasing number of people rely on online medical information.
Liu Leyi
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