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The Pragmatics of Insensitive Assessments

open access: yesThe Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, 2010
In assessing the veridicality of utterances, we normally seem to assess the satisfaction of conditions that the speaker had been concerned to get right in making the utterance.
Alexander Almér, Gunnar Björnsson
doaj   +1 more source

Levels of Reality

open access: yesLanguages, 2019
Two fundamental aspects of conceptual and linguistic structure are examined in relation to one another: organization into strata, each a baseline giving rise to the next by elaboration; and the conceptions of reality implicated at successive levels of ...
Ronald W. Langacker
doaj   +1 more source

Eavesdropping: What is it good for? [PDF]

open access: yes
Eavesdropping judgments (judgments about truth, retraction, and consistency across contexts) about epistemic modals have been used in recent years to argue for a radical thesis: that truth is assessment-relative. We argue that judgments for 'I think that
Mandelkern, Matthew, Phillips, Jonathan
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JAVANESE LANGUAGE MODALITY IN BLENCONG ARTICLES OF SUARA MERDEKA NEWSPAPER [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Many languages have modalities which are usually expressed through certain modal verbs. By analyzing the modal verbs, the varying degrees of commitment to or belief in a proposition can be explained. Javanese language also has such modal system.
Nina , Setyaningsih
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Fetal Pain Perception: Legislative Assertions and Developmental Neuroscience

open access: yesAnnals of the Child Neurology Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Pain perception is a conscious experience, but neither pain nor consciousness is defined in the developing human fetus. Emergent consciousness may be regarded as a phenomenon that ultimately arises from an essential minimum of functional neuronal connectivity. Proposed U.S.
William D. Graf   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

This Paper Might Change your Mind [PDF]

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Rational decision change can happen without information change. This is a problem for standard views of decision theory, on which linguistic intervention in rational decision-making is captured in terms of information change.
Dever, Josh, Schiller, Henry Ian
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Introduction—What is Epistemic Contextualism? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Introduces contextualism about knowledge ascriptions, and provides a brief summary of the contributions to the Routledge Handbook of Epistemic ...
Ichikawa, Jonathan Jenkins
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Conflict Management Strategies Among Cohabiting Undergraduate Students in Ilorin, Nigeria

open access: yesConflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Conflicts among cohabiting partners are often more complex or intractable because their relationships are not formalized culturally or institutionally. The inability to resolve conflicts among cohabiting partners may threaten their safety and well‐being.
Lanre Abdul‐Rasheed Sulaiman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding Consumer Behaviour and the Circular Economy Transition in Sustainable Fashion: A Systematic Literature Review

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The fashion industry plays a key role towards global sustainability goals, yet remains among the most sustainability‐impacting sectors. Since 2020, several disruptions—including the Covid‐19 pandemic, geopolitical instability, and ambitious sustainability policies—have dramatically reshaped how consumers interact with fashion. In response, the
Chiara Marinelli
wiley   +1 more source

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