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Preunderstanding, Presuppositions and Biblical Interpretation
Religions, 2022 For contemporary biblical scholars, the recognition that everyone interprets a text through one’s presuppositions and preunderstanding is axiomatic.
Thomas A. Howe
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Language and Semiotic Studies, 2022 Slogans play an important role in Chinese society. Numerous slogans have been created and used in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. As an eye-catching linguistic phenomenon, anti-pandemic slogans have sparked heated debates not only among the ...
Junhua Mo, Renquan Heng
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Selecting Presuppositions in Conditional Clauses. Results from a Psycholinguistic Experiment
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 In this paper, we propose an experiment concerning the presupposition selection in conditional sentences containing a presupposition trigger in the consequent.
Elena Carrea +2 more
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Frontiers in Communication, 2021 The paper shows that implicit strategies for questionable contents are frequent in persuasive texts, as compared to texts with other purposes. It proposes that the persuasive and manipulative effectiveness of introducing questionable contents implicitly ...
Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri +1 more
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Popper’s Open Society and Its Problems [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2023 After offering an overview of some of the main themes of Popper’s political thought, the paper argues that his account faces two problems relating to institutions. The first is that while Popper stresses the ‘rational unity of mankind’, and the potential
Jeremy Shearmur
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The Secular Nature of Modern Sciences [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2022 The relationship between science and its foundations and its influence on thought and worldview and how science is influenced by its foundations are important issues in the philosophy of science.
Ahad Ganjalikhani, Mahdi Meshki
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Presuppositional exhaustification [PDF]
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2021 Grammatical theories of Scalar Implicatures make use of an exhaustivity operator exh, which asserts the conjunction of the prejacent with the negation of excludable alternatives. We present a new Grammatical theory of Scalar Implicatures according to which exh is replaced with pex, an operator that contributes its prejacent as asserted content, but the
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Interrogative particles in polar questions: the view from Finnish and Turkish
Glossa, 2023 The strategy used for forming polar questions varies across languages. While in some languages, polar questions are formed using a raising intonation, in others, polar questions are formed using an interrogative particle.
Aurore Gonzalez
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Glossa, 2021 Fox (2000) argues that a single principle, Rule H, can account for (i) Strong Crossover, (ii) the ban on using co-binding to sneak around Condition B, and (iii) the Dahl paradigm. The focus of this paper is Fox’s analysis of the Dahl paradigm.
Alex Drummond
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The Future of New Testament Theology, or, What Should Devout Modern Bible Scholarship Look Like?
Religions, 2021 Consideration of the nature of New Testament Theology (NTT) necessitates an account of theology or “God-talk”. Karl Barth grasped that all valid God-talk begins with God’s self-disclosure through Jesus and the Spirit, which people acknowledge and reflect
Douglas A. Campbell
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