A Mind for Language: How Language Shapes Our Reality [PDF]
, 2011 To write of language is an unusual activity, for it is to describe something by, through, and with itself. This thesis not only defends the view advanced by Sapir and Whorf of linguistic relativism, but extends their thesis with an application of ...
Tompkins, Eric
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The relativistic attitude in development: reflections on the implementation of the Ethiopian multinational Constitution [PDF]
, 2019 L’approccio allo sviluppo che considera la crescita economica come unico obiettivo può produrre degli effetti deleteri sui gruppi marginalizzati. Lo sviluppismo adottato in Etiopia dal 1991 illustra questo punto con riferimento ai contadini, ai popoli ...
Bassi, Marco
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Dialoguer avec les brahmanes : de l’œuvre missionnaire aux Voyages philosophes
ViaticaThis article explores the dialogue with Brahmins – as a discursive form and as an engagement with Hindu beliefs –, which is a key component in the work of the Jesuit Father Roberto de Nobili, before being reinvested in an ambiguous way by travel-writers ...
Yasmine Atlas
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Relativism, Faultlessness, and the Epistemology of Disagreement [PDF]
, 2018 : Recent years have witnessed a revival of interest in relativism. Proponents have defended various accounts that seek to model the truth-conditions of certain propositions along the lines of standard possible world semantics.
Dugas, Micah
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New Horizons for a Theory of Epistemic Modals [PDF]
, 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
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Considerações sobre a neutralidade da ciência Considerations on the neutrality of science
Trans/Form/Ação, 2003 O texto apresenta uma discussão da tese da neutralidade da ciência, tomando como ponto de partida algumas formulações dos Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais.
Marcos Barbosa de Oliveira
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Moral conditions for methodologically rational decisions [PDF]
, 2018 The study’s main thesis is that respect for some moral values is a condition for methodologically rational decisions, namely, decisions which do not satisfy the condition are either not methodologically rational at all, or not fully rational.
Jacko, Jan F.
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The Many Uses of Predicates of Taste and the Challenge from Disagreement
Studies 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
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Toulmin's Model of Argument and the Question of Relativism (J. A. Blair Prize, 2005)
Informal 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
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Historicism without Relativism? Alasdair MacIntyre’s Proposal for the Rescue of Moral Imperativeness
Svensk 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
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