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Concept Application as Social Activity
Crítica, 2018 En este ensayo se parte del problema de la diversidad cultural y de su explicación. Las diversas culturas, y diversos grupos dentro de cierta cultura, deben verse como racionales, so pena de caer en un inadmisible etnocentrismo, aunqne sostengan ...
Barry Barnes
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Communication in relevance theory
Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 1998 Sperber and Wilson (1995) ground their definition of communication on their criticism of Grice's intentional definition of non-natural meaning. In such a perspective, communication is considered as an act rather than as a process.
Franken, Nathalie
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Ostension and Demonstrative Reference [PDF]
, 2014 . The strong similarity between the use of ostension and that of a simple demonstrative to predicate something of an object seems to conflict with equally strong intuitions according to which, while “this” does usually refer to an ...
Stefanov, Gheorghe
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Middlebrow Aesthetics: An Explanation and Defense
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We offer a philosophical account of the middlebrow as a theoretical category to do explanatory and critical work in aesthetics. On our account, the middlebrow ought to be understood as aspirational popular art. That is, it is art which aspires both to be popular (in a distinctive sense), and at the same time to be something more than popular ...
Aaron Meskin, Jonathan M. Weinberg
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Wittgenstein on the foundations of language : A non foundational narration [PDF]
, 2009 The primary objective of this paper is to show that for later Wittgenstein, language cannot be based on a pre-linguistic foundation. Following closely on the tracks of the philosopher, it argues that none of the proposed foundations that are claimed to ...
Mitra, Enakshi
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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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Semantics through Reference to the Unknown [PDF]
, 2016 In this paper, I dwell on a particular distinction introduced by Ilhan Inan—the distinction between ostensible and inostensible use of our language. The distinction applies to singular terms, such as proper names and definite descriptions, or to general ...
Aran, Arslan
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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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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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Metaphor and Metaphilosophy: Wittgenstein, MacDonald, and Conceptual Metaphor Theory
European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 1038-1053, September 2025.Abstract The discipline of philosophy has been critiqued from both within and outside itself. One brand of external critique is associated with Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), the view that human cognition is partially structured by pervasive and automatic mappings between conceptual domains.
Cameron C. Yetman
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