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The Many and the One: A Philosophical Study of Plural Logic [PDF]

, 2021
Plural expressions found in natural languages allow us to talk about many objects simultaneously. Plural logic — a logical system that takes plurals at face value — has seen a surge of interest in recent years. This book explores its broader significance
Florio, Salvatore, Linnebo, Øystein
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A dimensão da ética intercultural na obra de Jorge Amado

Amerika, 2014
This essay offers a reading of Jorge Amado that contrasts with the polarized vision characteristic of some critical approaches. This work is based on the « intercultural ethics » dimension that is orientating the author’s trajectory, responsible for the ...
Rita Olivieri-Godet
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Dependent indefinites and their post-suppositions

Semantics and Pragmatics, 2014
This paper presents an analysis of a new scope puzzle that arises through the interaction of two lesser-studied constructions, dependent indefinites and verbal pluractionality.
Robert Henderson
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A pluralidade de Pessoa em filmes de animação e histórias em quadrinhos [PDF]

Pessoa Plural
This article examines a small set of animated films and comic book stories that explore Pessoa’s themes, either through strategies of textual adaptations or by dramatizing characters drawn from Pessoa’s imagination.
Moura, Pedro
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Limiting logical pluralism [PDF]

Synthese, 2019
AbstractIn this paper I argue that pluralism at the level of logical systems requires a certain monism at the meta-logical level, and so, in a sense, there cannot be pluralism all the way down. The adequate alternative logical systems bottom out in a shared basic meta-logic, and as such, logical pluralism is limited.
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Fair play? Reading between White lines at South African school sports days

Acta Academica, 2018
In the spirit of Max Gluckmans’s 1940 ‘The Bridge’ paper, this paper offers a situational analysis of the Kylemore versus Groendal High School Derby Day in the Western Cape’s Dwars River valley in 2014.
Carina Truyts
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Logic, Metaphysics, and Theology: Aquinas, Analytic Thomism, and the Contemporary Relevance of P. T. Geach [PDF]

Pharos Journal of Theology
Contemporary theology finds itself under increasing pressure to justify its intellectual credibility in a cultural context marked by suspicion toward metaphysics, relativized truth claims, and appeals to “mystery” that often function as substitutes for ...
Fr. Dr. Georges Antaby, PhD, EMBA
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Collapse, Plurals and Sets

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2014
This paper raises the question under what circumstances a plurality forms a set. My main point is that not always all things form sets. A provocative way of presenting my position is that, as a result of my approach, there are more pluralities than sets.
Eduardo Alejandro Barrio
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Suma Qamaña = Living Well Together. How to Measure it?

Bolivian Studies Journal, 2020
In the Political Constitution of the State, in force in Bolivia since 2009, the concept of “living well” is reiterated already in its Preamble and in its Title I by pointing out the great “ethical-moral principles of plural society” (art. 8).
Xavier Albó
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Plural Intensional Presuppositional predicate calculus (PIP)

Glossa
One successful branch of natural language semantics uses first order predicate calculus and set theory, well-studied systems of mathematics in their own right, as meta-languages for natural-language meanings.
Ezra Keshet, Steven Abney
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