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‘What it is Like’ Talk is not Technical Talk [PDF]
‘What it is like’ talk (‘WIL-talk’) — the use of phrases such as ‘what it is like’ — is ubiquitous in discussions of phenomenal consciousness. It is used to define, make claims about, and to offer arguments concerning consciousness.
Farrell, Jonathan
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Tags and Folksonomies as Artifacts of Meaning. [PDF]
International audienceThe advent of the so-called Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web, for all their seemingly apparent (Floridi, 2009) differences, was instrumental in a renewed interest in questions that used to be addressed solely by the philosophy of ...
Monnin, Alexandre
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Starting from temporality as the organizing principle of any communicative situation, the present study investigates the use of verbal paradigms in Spanish when expressing memory and forgetfulness in a fictional speech act, such as poetry.
Barbara Pihler Ciglič
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Expectations in Incremental Discourse Processing [PDF]
The way in which discourse features express connections back to the previous discourse has been described in the literature in terms of adjoining at the right frontier of discourse structure.
Cristea, Dan, Webber, Bonnie Lynn
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Meaning and Ostension: From Putnam's Semantics to Contextualism [PDF]
Putnam is known for having demonstated the existence of a new form of context-dependence, namely that which characterizes natural kind terms (and possibly others as well).
Recanati, François
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Incommensurability and Theory Change [PDF]
The paper explores the relativistic implications of the thesis of incommensurability. A semantic form of incommensurability due to semantic variation between theories is distinguished from a methodological form due to variation in methodological ...
Sankey, Howard
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Hilary Putnam (1926-2016): A Lifetime Quest to Understand the Relationship between Mind, Language, and Reality [PDF]
This is an extended intellectual obituary for Hilary ...
Anderson, David Leech
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Compositionality and Statistics in Adjective Acquisition: 4-year-olds Interpret Tall and Short Based on the Size Distributions of Novel Noun Referents [PDF]
Four experiments investigated 4-year-olds' understanding of adjective-noun compositionality and their sensitivity to statistics when interpreting scalar adjectives.
Barner, David, Snedeker, Jesse
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Causal Theory of Reference of Saul Kripke [PDF]
Since the 1960s, Kripke has been a central figure in several fields related to mathematical logic, language philosophy, mathematical philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology and set theory.
Sfetcu, Nicolae
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Testing the Focal Point Theory of Legal Compliance: Expressive Influence in an Experimental Hawk/Dove Game [PDF]
Economic theories of legal compliance emphasize legal sanctions, while psychological and sociological theories stress the perceived legitimacy of law. Without disputing the importance of either mechanism, we test a third way that law affects behavior, an
McAdams, Richard H., Nadler, Janice
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