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When is it proper or acceptable for a speaker to presuppose a proposition in the course of performing a speech act? Taking Stalnaker's common ground model as my background, I argue that this is best framed as a matter of the conversational permissibility of the speaker's presupposition, and that we should not construe this permissibility in terms of ...
Sanford C. Goldberg
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The determination of what is said and what is implied
Is what is said determined by syntax, conventional meaning, and select aspects of context? This thesis—semanticity—seems plausible because what is said can diverge from both what the speaker means and what the addressee understands, and because ordinary speakers know what is said when presented with a novel sentence‐context pair.
Victor Tamburini
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Condorcet and Beyond: An Empirical Comparison of Voting Rules. [PDF]
Douven I +3 more
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Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)
Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
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Selective legibility: From material readout to machine agency. [PDF]
Chen B.
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Jacques Maritain, Maurice Blondel, and the Ends of Art
Abstract This article reconsiders Jacques Maritain's philosophical poetics by situating it within his longstanding debate with Maurice Blondel over the nature and unity of intellect. I argue that Maritain's influential defence of artistic autonomy, first articulated in Art et scolastique (1920), is ultimately unsound.
Steven Toussaint
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ActiveInspect: GRPO-Optimized Multi-Sensor Evidence Selection for Industrial Defect Detection. [PDF]
Wang J, Wu M.
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This (Mortal) Christian Life: Growth in Grace and the Problem of Senescence
Abstract Theological accounts of the Christian life attempt to describe the manner in which the Holy Spirit's communication of Christ's redemptive work engenders new ways of being in the world. Such descriptions normally entail, in one form or another, the conclusion that the Christian life is marked by progressive growth in grace, an upward spiral in ...
Daniel Lee Hill
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Large language models pass a standard three-party Turing test. [PDF]
Jones CR, Bergen BK.
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Words After the Storm: Elite Rhetoric and the Limits of De‐Escalation in Postreferendum Catalonia
ABSTRACT When does a secessionist crisis end? What drives political elites to shift from hostility to moderation? This article examines the prospects of rhetorical de‐escalation in the aftermath of a secessionist dispute through the paradigmatic case of Catalonia.
Daniel Cetrà +3 more
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