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Changing “Sex”

open access: yesMetaphilosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Can you change sex? Can you change the meaning of the concept “sex”? Does changing “sex” make changing sex possible? Would changing “sex” to make changing sex not only possible but also easy be a good thing? Might it, as some argue, help us bring about a new way of thinking and of acting that liberates us from the logic of heteronormativity ...
Neil Gascoigne
wiley   +1 more source

POLITENESS STRATEGY AND MAXIM IN LIAR LIAR (1997): A PRAGMATIC STUDY

open access: yesMakna: Jurnal Kajian Komunikasi, Bahasa, dan Budaya, 2010
Penelitian ini membahas ungkapan-ungkapan kebahasaan (linguistic expressions) yang sengaja dipilih ketika manusia saling berinteraksi dalam komunitasnya. Pilihan ungkapan tersebut dipergunakan bukan hanya untuk mempererat ikatan sosial tetapi juga untuk menunjukkan eksistensi di mata komunitas sehingga bisa menjadi anggota yang bisa diterima dan ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Learning from presupposition

open access: yesMind &Language, EarlyView.
P. F. Strawson famously distinguishes what a speaker presupposes from what she asserts in uttering a sentence like “The present King of France is bald”. This paper defends a claim about presupposition's epistemic significance, namely that presupposition can provide a distinctive testimony‐based way for an audience to learn about the world.
Dominic Alford‐Duguid
wiley   +1 more source

Dread in the Homeland: Symbolic Politics and Ethnonationalist Struggles for Self‐Determination in Nigeria

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The revival of Biafran separatism in contemporary Nigeria is often explained with three leading theoretical frameworks: relative deprivation, political economy and state repression. Whereas relative deprivation and political economy perspectives posit that the resurgent separatism derives from the perception and empirical reality of ...
Promise Frank Ejiofor
wiley   +1 more source

The simplicity of physical laws

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
Abstract Physical laws are strikingly simple, yet there is no a priori reason for them to be so. I propose that nomic realists—Humeans and non‐Humeans—should recognize simplicity as a fundamental epistemic guide for discovering and evaluating candidate physical laws.
Eddy Keming Chen
wiley   +1 more source

Model pluralism for logic

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
Abstract It is well‐recognized in the sciences that a multitude of nonequivalent models are used by researchers to fulfill a range of goals, even for the same target system, a result known broadly as model pluralism. The possibility of the same form of pluralism occurring in logic, however, has not been adequately considered.
Ben Martin
wiley   +1 more source

Polite Speech Emerges From Competing Social Goals. [PDF]

open access: yesOpen Mind (Camb), 2020
Yoon EJ   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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