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European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Making sense of the world often requires one to come up with new ideas, including ideas one had previously been unable to think of. How and when should this be done? I propose and defend a norm of rationality linking wondering, belief, and abilities to conceive: one must not both wonder a question and reject all answers to it that one can ...
Michael Deigan
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In the Face of Fake News: the Urgency of a Realist Semiotics
InformatioThis small paper argues that the notion of truth has been marginalized in much semiotics. As an alternative, Peirce's semiotic theory of propositions and its connection to his special brand of realism are briefly recapitulated.
Frederik Stjernfelt
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Peirce and Sellars on Nonconceptual Content [PDF]
, 2018 Whereas Charles Peirce’s pragmatist account of truth has been much discussed, his theory of perception still offers a rich mine of insights. Peirce presented a ‘two-ply’ view of perception, which combines an entirely precognitive ‘percept’ with a ...
Legg, Catherine
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Foreign Language Annals, EarlyView.Abstract This study examines the language learning investment of five intermediate learners of Spanish at a tertiary institution in The Bahamas. It draws on participants’ language learning journeys to consider how their previous experiences and access to language learning opportunities contributed to their investment.
Valentino Rahming
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The Semiotics of Global Warming: Combating Semiotic Corrruption [PDF]
, 2007 The central focus of this paper is the disjunction between the findings of climate science in revealing the threat of global warming and the failure to act appropriately to these warnings. The development of climate science can be illuminated through the
Gare, Arran
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UNWARRANTED CONFIDENCE: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE POVERTY OF ANTI‐REALISM
History and Theory, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Poverty of Anti‐Realism: Critical Perspectives on Postmodernist Philosophy of History, edited by Tor Egil Førland and Branko Mitrović, celebrates the new dawn of historical realism, which it claims supersedes the erroneous and harmful anti‐realism.
Jouni‐Matti Kuukkanen
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A poésie numérique un objet d'essai triadique
Texto Digital, 2016 Dans cette ambiance nous observons, dans les dernières années, qu’il n’y a pas de collision de codes. Nous voyons leur mouvement d’expansion – l’écriture en expansion. La sémiotique de C. S. Peirce (1977), en l’acceptant comme une triade, qui part vers
Wilton Azevedo
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Design thinking support: information systems versus reasoning [PDF]
, 2013 Numerous attempts have been made to conceive and implement appropriate information systems to support architectural designers in their creative design thinking processes.
De Meyer, Ronald +2 more
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Regressive transfer has been a subject that has not been extensively researched in the field of third language acquisition. This study aims to examine the extent to which a highly advanced knowledge of a third language (L3) affects the first language (L1) and the second language (L2) of early bilinguals in light of the Differential Stability ...
Maddi Alkain Arizmendi +2 more
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The contribution of icons to the information value of symbols and other representations
InformatioPeirce distinguishes between information which symbols imply and information which symbols convey. All symbols imply information, but only propositional symbols (dicents) can convey information.
Winfried Nöth
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