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Pure Event Semantics

open access: yesPhilosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In a pure event semantics for natural language, the domain of quantification and predication is limited to events and states. I offer pure event semantic analyses of several phenomena, some of which have not been treated before in formal semantics. In the pure event semantics sketched in the second section, nouns are state predicates, and this
Roger Schwarzschild
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Saving and Letting Live

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
Abstract There is a metaphysical difference between person A killing person B and A merely letting B die. There is also a metaphysical difference between A saving B and A merely letting B live. This paper argues that the metaphysical difference between saving and letting live gives rise to a moral difference. It then puts that moral difference to work:
Thomas Byrne
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English Etymologies [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the Philological Society
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