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Grafía, 2013 The aim of this paper is to explain and evaluate Rorty’s thesis of the contingency of language, by examining the validity of the Davidsonian proposal of passing theories of meaning, upon which the thesis rests.
Jorge Sierra Merchán
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Transcendental arguments, analytic and synthetic
, 1979 Bittner R. Transcendental arguments, analytic and synthetic. In: Bieri P, Horstmann RP, Krüger L, eds. Transcendental arguments and science. Synthese library, 133.
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The Constellation: A Reappraisal of Walter Benjamin's Influence on Theodor W. Adorno
Constellations, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the 1920s and 1930s, Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno both sought to develop a notion of Darstellung—of philosophical presentation or representation—that could provide an alternative to the classically idealist tendency to subsume objects under abstract concepts.
E. Lawrence Bradford
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
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Transcendental arguments against model-theoretical scepticism
, 2018 The overarching moral of the two previous chapters is that moderate modelists cannot explain how they could hope to pin down any particular isomorphism type, and so cannot deliver on their goal of explicating structure-talk in terms of isomorphism types.
Tim Button, Sean Walsh
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article examines the ending of a friendship in ethnographic fieldwork. I argue that friendship is a necessarily ambiguous concept and relation, made most distinctive as a ‘friendship’ at its end. Reflecting on a friendship that was ended between this author and an old friend in fieldwork in Halleigh, North Manchester, England, I discuss the ...
Katherine Smith
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Transcendental Arguments, Conceivability, and Global Vs. Local Skepticism [PDF]
, 2017 In this paper, I argue that, if transcendental arguments are to proceed from premises that are acceptable to the skeptic, the Transcendental Premise, according to which “X is a metaphysically necessary condition for the possibility of Y,” must be ...
Mizrahi, Moti
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The growth of entire functions in the terms of generalized orders
Karpatsʹkì Matematičnì Publìkacìï, 2013 Let $\Phi$ be a convex function on $[x_0,+\infty)$ such that$\frac{\Phi(x)}x\to+\infty$, $x\to+\infty$, $f(z)=\sum_{n=0}^\infty a_nz^n$ — a transcendental entire function, let $M(r,f)$ be the maximum modulus of $f$ and let$$\rho_\Phi(f)=\limsup_{r\to ...
T. Ya. Hlova, P. V. Filevych
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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
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History, EarlyView.Abstract Examining sport alongside race, media and imperial power opens a rich field for understanding how macro‐level ideologies are shaped and circulated through everyday cultural forms. In twentieth‐century Britain, mass media framed and distributed narratives that rendered the empire's political realities intelligible to a broad public.
SOUVIK NAHA
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