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Two adequacy conditions on a minimalist account of truth dependence
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract According to Aristotle's Categories (14b14–22), the proposition that p is true because p, but it is not the case that p because the proposition that p is true. Call this truth dependence. Truth dependence is challenging for Horwich's minimalism.
Susanna Melkonian‐Altshuler
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Obligatory implicatures and grammaticality
Proceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium, 2011 The paper explores some puzzling data on agreement with disjunctive noun phrases in Russian. I show that the data can be nicely explained by the theory of implicatures. The proposed analysis raises a more general question, namely whether scalar implicatures of a sentence can ever lead to ungrammaticality.
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An Introduction to Rational Constructivism in Cognitive Development
Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract Rational constructivism is a contemporary theory of cognitive development. It proposes that children generate, tweak, and radically revise theories, beliefs, and representations by integrating evidence with existing knowledge via probabilistic inferential learning mechanisms.
Rebekah A. Gelpi +3 more
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British Journal of Psychotherapy, Volume 42, Issue 4, Page 365-381, November 2026.Abstract This article examines how change becomes possible in couple discourse within psychoanalytic couple therapy. It proposes “couple discourse” as a clinical and theoretical concept for listening to the ways partners signify, project and transform experience together.
Keren Cohen
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Developmental Science, Volume 29, Issue 5, September 2026.ABSTRACT Choosing whom to learn from is critical for human learners. A well‐established strategy to do so is to track informants' past accuracy. Yet this requires both a track record and independent knowledge of the truth—neither of which is available when encountering a new informant in an unfamiliar domain.
Cyann Bernard +2 more
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CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURE: TALKSHOW IN OPRAH WINFREY NETWORK [PDF]
, 2021 This study is to determine the various forms of conversational implicature and their function on the talk show Oprah Winfrey Network\u27s SuperSoul Sunday Program. The data were evaluated descriptively qualitatively.
Astrid, Astrid +2 more
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Visual Components to Interpretation—Formal Approaches to Visible Meaning
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 5, September/October 2026.ABSTRACT Visual components of communication interact with the core linguistic system at all levels and make an important contribution to the meaning of the utterance expressed. This does not only apply to sign languages, which exclusively rely on the visual channel, but also co‐speech gestures and emojis, which are visual means that accompany and ...
Cornelia Ebert +2 more
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CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURE ANALYSIS IN “FACING THE GIANTS” THE MOVIE [PDF]
, 2016 Wahyu Zulfa Lailah 14121320263 Conversational Implicature Analysis n Facing The Giants The Movie. This study analyzed conversational implicature, there are two types of implicature: (1) conventional implicature and (2) conversational implicature ...
Wahyu Zulfa Lailah,
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Intentionalism, anti‐intentionalism and conversational interaction
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 358-375, September 2026.Abstract Proponents as well as opponents of modeling aesthetic interpretation on conversation tend to assume that this implies that the author's intention constitutes the meaning of her work and that the aim of interpretation consists in recovering it.
Palle Leth
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Problems connected with the notion of implicature [PDF]
As the title suggests, the primary concern of this study is with problems arising from a very widely used notion in the recent literature of linguistics and philosophy, the notion of implicature.
Koutoupis-Kitis, Elizabeth
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