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Presupposition projection as proof construction [PDF]
Even though Van der Sandt's presuppositions as anaphora approach is empirically successful, it fails to give a formal account of the interaction between world-knowledge and presuppositions.
A Ranta +26 more
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Presuppositions in Context: Constructing Bridges [PDF]
About the book: The First International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modelling and Using Context, Rio de Janeiro, January 1997, gave rise to the present book, which contains a selection of the papers presented there, thoroughly refereed and ...
Bonzon, P. +4 more
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There are various senses in which one statement may be said to ‘presuppose’ another, senses which are in permanent danger of being confused. Prominent among them are Strawsonian presupposition, a relation which obtains between statements when the falsity of one deprives the other of truth-value (for example, ‘There was such a person as Kepler’ is a ...
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I critically discuss some aspects of Mark Sainsbury’s Reference without Referents, from an otherwise sympathetic viewpoint. My objections focus on the adequacy of the truth-conditional framework that Sainsbury presupposes.
Manuel García-Carpintero
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The Plurivocal Character of Hermeneutics – Moving beyond the Quest for Objectivity [PDF]
As a science, hermeneutics started out in the area of theology. Dealing with revealed texts, the interpreters would be interested in searching out for the authorial intent.
Liviu URSACHE
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Slurs as the Shortcut of Discrimination
The last decade saw a growing interest for hate speech and the ways in which language reflects and perpetuates discrimination, with two main focuses of interest: a linguistic-oriented question about how slurs encode evaluation on the one hand, and a ...
Bianca Cepollaro
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Analytic philosophy and scriptural interpretations
The task of interpreting the Holy Scriptures has been a daunting enterprise throughout the history of the Church. This article explores how analytic philosophy could be promising in biblical interpretation.
Aku S. Antombikums
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Selecting Presuppositions in Conditional Clauses. Results from a Psycholinguistic Experiment.
In this paper, we propose an experiment concerning the presupposition selection in conditional sentences containing a presupposition trigger in the consequent.
Filippo eDomaneschi +3 more
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Pornography and accommodation [PDF]
In ‘Scorekeeping in a Pornographic Language Game’, Rae Langton and Caroline West borrow ideas from David Lewis to attempt to explain how pornography might subordinate and silence women.
Heck, Richard Kimberly
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Building Evaluation into Language
In this paper I spell out the conditions for a uniform analysis of thick terms and slurs, presented in Cepollaro and Stojanovic (2016). Our claim is that thick terms and slurs convey evaluations via presupposition and represent a device through which ...
Bianca Cepollaro
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