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Model‐Based Semantics: Doing Without Meaning Constitution

open access: yesMetaphilosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper introduces a model‐based account of meaning, arguing that meaning properties reside in models rather than in the external world. Building on this view, it explores how such an instrumentalist framework can engage critically with various concerns raised by Wittgenstein, Quine, and Kripke[nstein]—each of whom voiced scepticism toward ...
Pietro Salis
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Substitutionless predicate logic with identity

open access: yesArchiv für Mathematische Logik und Grundlagenforschung, 1965
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Polysemy and roots: Deep versus shallow fetching

open access: yesMind &Language, EarlyView.
The paper argues for a model of polysemy based on the blueprint offered by Paul Pietroski whereby the meaning of a lexical item is an instruction to fetch a concept from an address. We show that the bare idea of fetching admits of a deep construal, where a concept is fetched, and a shallow construal, where the instruction merely links a lexical item to
John Collins, Tamara Dobler
wiley   +1 more source

Uniquely human temporal thoughts

open access: yesMind &Language, EarlyView.
Life on Earth will eventually come to an end. The thought expressed in the previous sentence is about a point in time that is not known to the individual entertaining the thought. This paper is concerned with the nature of such temporal thoughts. We propose that the capacity to mentally represent thoughts about non‐specific temporal intervals is a ...
İsa Kerem Bayırlı
wiley   +1 more source

A Data Model and Predicate Logic for Trajectory Data (Extended Version) [PDF]

open access: green
Johann Bornholdt   +2 more
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Badiou and the Reconstruction of the Concept of God

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I first summarize Badiou's and Žižek's critique of the concept of God, which I and other interpreters conceive as a radicalization of the theology of the death of God. I then pose the question of how to formulate a positive conception of God after the death of God that would overcome the limits of negative or apophatic theology.
Michael Hauser
wiley   +1 more source

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