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Action, passion, power

Noûs, Volume 59, Issue 3, Page 567-584, September 2025.
Abstract The active/passive distinction, once a hallmark of classical metaphysics, has largely been discarded from contemporary thought. The revival of powers theory has not seen an equally vigorous rehabilitation of the real distinction between active and passive powers. I begin an analysis and vindication with a critique of E.J. Lowe's discussion.
David S. Oderberg
wiley   +1 more source

Implicature and Speech Act Analysis in Erbil City Courtroom Discourse

Zanco Journal of Humanity Sciences
This study investigates the use of implicature and speech acts in Erbil City courtroom. Implicature is the implied meaning in addition to literal meaning of expressions, while speech acts are communicative actions such as asserting, commanding, or ...
Gala Qasim Hasan, Dilovan Sayfuddin Saady   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assertion, Lying, and Untruthfully Implicating [PDF]

, 2018
This chapter explores the prospects for justifying the somewhat widespread, somewhat firmly held sense that there is some moral advantage to untruthfully implicating over lying. I call this the "Difference Intuition." I define lying in terms of asserting,
Pepp, Jessica
core   +1 more source

Originalism and the Unwritten Constitution [PDF]

, 2013
In his book, America’s Unwritten Constitution, Akhil Reed Amar contends that to properly engage the written Constitution, scholars and laymen alike must look to extratextual sources: among them America’s founding documents, institutional practices, and ...
Solum, Lawrence B.
core   +3 more sources

Is Semantics Really Psychologically Real? [PDF]

, 2009
The starting point for this paper is a critical discussion of claims of psychological reality articulated within Borg’s (forth.) minimal semantics and Carpintero’s (2007) character*-semantics.
Popa-Wyatt, Mihaela
core  

Presuppositions and Implicatures in Comic Strips [PDF]

, 2008
Article aimed to find out the role of presuppositions, implicatures, as well as to see the maxims violated or flouted in the comic strips i.e. to whether there is a miscommunication among the characters in the comic strips. Data were taken from the three
Dewi, I. I. (Ienneke)
core   +2 more sources

Affected experiencers and mixed semantics in LFG/Glue [PDF]

, 2012
Bosse, Bruening and Yamada (2012) (BBY) provides a study of several constructions involving ?non-selected? arguments, and outlines an approach to the syntax and semantics of one such construction: the Affected Experiencer (AE) construction. The syntactic
Arnold, D, Sadler, L
core  

Functional relevance as a principle of translation problem-solving. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2022
Sang Z.
europepmc   +1 more source

The relationships between students' comprehension of conversational implicatures and their achievement in reading comprehension. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2022
Çiftlikli S, Demirel Ö.
europepmc   +1 more source

Pragmatic Competence and Willingness to Communicate Among L2 Learners of Chinese. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2021
Lv X, Ren W, Li L.
europepmc   +1 more source