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On the Limits of Intransitive Coordination

open access: yesRatio, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A growing number of authors suggest that concept coordination—the kind of relation we pick out when we say that the concepts of one or more individuals represent something as the same—is not a transitive relation. Here we consider global features of representational systems to break new ground in the assessment of the intransitivity view. From
Víctor M. Verdejo, Joost J. Joosten
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A PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE ON THE INDONESIAN SUBJECTIVE THIRD-PERSON SINGULAR PRONOUNS WITHIN THEIR PROBABLE ENGLISH EQUIVALENTS

open access: yesLite: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, dan Budaya, 2015
This simple research article is about a philosophy of language on the Indonesian subjective third-person singular pronouns DIA and IA and their probable equivalents in the English language. The philosophy involves discussions on the nature of meaning of DIA and IA, the use of DIA and IA, the cognition of DIA and IA, and the relationship between DIA and
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Descartes in Two Dimensions

open access: yesRatio, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Descartes' cogito argument is perhaps the most well‐known philosophical argument, the conclusion of which is supposed to be a form of rationalism that allows for contingent a priori knowledge of the world. In this short note, I argue that, in fact, the all important statement, ‘I am, I exist’, should be analysed through the lens of (classical)
Tom Schoonen
wiley   +1 more source

‘Chrystalline Talk’: Thomas Browne's Poetics of Concretion and Mineral Plain Style

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article charts the figuration, both material and rhetorical, of mineral bodies in early modern natural philosophy, paying particular attention to the second book of Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646). It argues that concretions (stony calculi and crystals formed through the aggregation of physical matter) make manifest a mineral
Jess Dunmore
wiley   +1 more source

Poetic Sociology

open access: yesSociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Can sociologists feel? Sociological writing can be beautiful, making us think differently about people, processes, and structures. Yet traditional academic writing that does this is rare. For example, most articles adhere to a jargon‐filled format and structure that mimics a detached and disciplined writer.
Victoria Reyes
wiley   +1 more source

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