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Philosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Joint inquiry requires agents to exchange public content about some target domain, which in turn requires them to track which content a linguistic form contributes to a conversation. But, often, the inquiry delivers a necessary truth. For example, if we are inquiring whether a particular bird, Tweety, is a woodpecker, and discover that it is ...
Una Stojnić, Matthew Stone
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"Kinda like the folklore of its day": "Supernatural," fairy tales, and ostension
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2010 This essay considers the use of folklore in the television series Supernatural: the show does not simply retell folk narratives, but performs them both diegetically and metatextually in a process known as ostension.
Catherine Tosenberger
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Comunicación y ostensión : hacia una pragmática del sentido. [PDF]
, 2012 En este texto se asumen las teorías surgidas de la filosofía del lenguaje y de la pedagogía de la lengua como puntos focales para el estudio de su uso en situaciones concretas. El análisis del discurso es el marco metodológico y de referencia, en el cual
Arbeláez, Olga Lucía +2 more
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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 113, Issue 2, Page 327-345, September 2026.ABSTRACT Philosophers often characterize perception as image‐like. There is little agreement, however, about what constitutes an imagistic or iconic representation. This article identifies five signature properties of iconic representations endorsed in the philosophical and scientific literature: item‐richness, feature‐richness, spatiotemporal ...
Jake Quilty‐Dunn
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The Cognitive Foundations of Teaching
Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, Volume 35, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT The propensity to teach is vital to human cultural evolution and to our ecological dominance of the planet, but its cognitive foundations remain poorly understood. Traditional explanations argue that teaching hinges on particular cognitive pre‐requisites, such as Theory of Mind.
Matthew Lomas +4 more
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Limits, Limitations, and Necessity in Margaret Macdonald
European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 717-735, June 2026.ABSTRACT I offer a contribution to recent work on Margaret Macdonald (1903–1956), a prolific though largely unknown figure in the history of analytic philosophy who applied Wittgensteinian insights to a broad range of issues. Here I examine the development of Macdonald's views with respect to idealism and conventionalism, through the application of a ...
Oliver Thomas Spinney
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Newborn Infants Selectively Attend to Points That Refer to Objects
Developmental Science, Volume 29, Issue 2, March 2026.ABSTRACT Recognizing that certain acts are communicative is a key requirement of the development of communicative skills. Newborn infants have been shown to selectively respond to certain ostensive cues, including mutual gaze and infant directed speech, supporting theories of the evolution of ostensive‐inferential communication. That said, no study has
Alessandra Geraci +4 more
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DECEPTIVE SANCTITY: The Geopolitics of Shrines and Concealed Antiquities in Afghanistan
Cultural Anthropology, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 82-106, February 2026.ABSTRACT This article explores a widely circulated legend in Afghanistan in which foreigners are believed to create shrines to conceal buried antiquities. It represents one of several narratives in which locals express mistrust of foreign motivations and geopolitical deception.
SHAMIM HOMAYUN
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Forma y Función, 2006 Este artículo pretende mostrar los planteamientos cognitivos más representativos de la Teoría de la Relevancia propuesta por Spelber & Wilson con respecto al modelo ostensivo-inferencial. Este modelo plantea un mecanismo deductivo explícito que da cuenta
Constanza Moya Pardo
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Two Gaps in Studying High‐Fidelity Imitation Across Diverse Childhood Ecologies
Child Development Perspectives, Volume 19, Issue 4, Page 189-197, December 2025.ABSTRACT Recent empirical investigations have concentrated primarily on studying imitation as a social tool that satisfies social motivations, while other potential reasons for and forms of imitation have attracted less attention. These investigations have also focused on studying the role of pedagogy in imitative learning and set up most experiments ...
Frankie T. K. Fong, Daniel B. M. Haun
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