VOLUME 4(1-2) • 2005
DECONSTRUCTING FICTIONAL DISCOURSE
ABSTRACT. The distinction between fictional discourse and factual discourse captures some platitudes concerning our everyday linguistic practice. One's mastery of existential statements parallels one's mastery of the distinction between fictional and factual discourse and between discourse within th..
VARIABLES, GENERALITY AND EXISTENCE: CONSIDERATIONS ON THE NOTION OF A CONCEPT-SCRIPT (I)
ABSTRACT. The ideal of a logically transparent language represents no merely interesting episode in the history of ideas. The notion of an ideal language typically carries the implication that it is not only transparent but also that it is complete. The project of formalising natural-language senten..
CE TIP DE IDEALISM ESTE VIABIL ASTAZI?
ABSTRACT. In recent times virtually all idealists have construed 'the minds' at issue in their theory as a matter of separate individual minds equipped with socially engendered resources, and thus forming part of the world rather than standing outside or behind it. Rescher argues for a version of id..
VERDASTRU
ABSTRACT. Qualitativeness is not 'an entirely relative matter'. There are various clear objective distinctions to be made between qualitative and non-qualitative predicates, varying with how narrowly 'qualitative' is defined. In order to show that an object is green we do not have to show what the d..