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New Horizons for a Theory of Epistemic Modals [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Recent debate over the semantics and pragmatics of epistemic modals has focused on intuitions about cross-contextual truth-value assessments. In this paper, we advocate a different approach to evaluating theories of epistemic modals. Our strategy focuses
Khoo, Justin, Phillips, Jonathan
core   +1 more source

The Many Uses of Predicates of Taste and the Challenge from Disagreement

open access: yesStudies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2016
In the debate between contextualism and relativism about predicates of taste, the challenge from disagreement (the objection that contextualism cannot account for disagreement in ordinary exchanges involving such predicates) has played a central role ...
Zeman Dan
doaj   +1 more source

Toulmin's Model of Argument and the Question of Relativism (J. A. Blair Prize, 2005)

open access: yesInformal Logic, 2004
In The Uses of Argument, Toulmin proposed a distinction between fielddependent and field-invariant standards for argument appraisal that gave rise to a relativistic understanding of his theory.
Lilian Bermejo-Luque
doaj   +1 more source

Objectivity and relativism

open access: yes, 2021
Can historians be truly objective? Is a relativist standpoint a threat to history as an academic discipline? These fundamental questions will be addressed from the point of view of Friedrich Meinecke (1862–1954), Charles A. Beard (1874–1948), Jörn Rüsen, and Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900–2002) and their views on historical understanding and the role of ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Semantic primitives and compositionality: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract The term semantic primitives refers to a set of basic, atomic concepts from which all other (compound) concepts are constructed. It presupposes the principle of compositionality—the idea that complex items or expressions can be formed by combining simpler constituents.
Birger Hjørland
wiley   +1 more source

Moral Relativism [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
Harry van der Linden\u27s contribution to: American Justice, ed. Joseph M.
van der Linden, Harry
core   +1 more source

Disagreement Lost and Found [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
According to content-relativist theories of moral language, different speakers use the same moral sentences to say different things. Content-relativism faces a well-known problem of lost disagreement.
Finlay, Stephen
core   +1 more source

Historicism without Relativism? Alasdair MacIntyre’s Proposal for the Rescue of Moral Imperativeness

open access: yesSvensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, 2014
Alasdair MacIntyre’s historicism has been suspected of sliding inescapably into relativism insofar as it explicitly rejects all claims to final or absolute knowledge.
Marc Boss
doaj  

A Longitudinal Study of Counselor Trainees’ Cognitive Complexity

open access: yesCounselor Education and Supervision, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We conducted a quantitative longitudinal examination of the cognitive development of 186 counselors‐in‐training (CITs) across their training programs. Findings indicate a general developmental trajectory, with most change occurring between completion of practicum and end of program.
Darcy Haag Granello   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

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