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Kritische Wanderungen durch die Philosophie der Gegenwart ...
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Vetervm Illvstrivm Philosophorvm Poetarvm Rhetorvm et Oratorvm Imagines ... : Ex vetustis Nummis, Gemmis, Hermis, Marmoribus alijsque Antiquis Monumentis desumptae ...
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Imagines Vetervm Illvstrivm Rhetorvm Ac Oratorvm - Band 003: Ex vetustis Nummis, Gemmis, Hermis, Marmoribus alijsque Antiquis Monumentis desumptae ...
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How do Language and Gender Interact? (A Critical Study on the Feminist Theory of Language)
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In: http://hrmars.com/hrmars_papers/How_do_language_and_gender_interact.pdf
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"Wir sollten die Dinge so einfach wie moglich machen, aber nicht einfacher"
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In: http://samaraaltlinguo.narod.ru/ejournal/308_kasonde.pdf
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From Semantics to Metaphysics.
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It is widely assumed in philosophy that there is a tight connection between semantics and metaphysics. Semantic theories about the meanings of natural language terms and phrases are taken to provide evidence for and against various metaphysical theses about the nature of non-linguistic parts of the world. Call this view the widespread thesis. I argue that the widespread thesis is mistaken: semantic theories do not generally have robust metaphysical consequences. I contend that the best arguments for the widespread thesis turn on an interpretation of semantic theories according to which they are metaphysically illuminating: the metaphysical structure of the world is directly mirrored in the structure of the theory. Terms and existential quantification in the theory signal the existence of entities in the world, predicates signal the existence of properties, and the structures of set theoretic objects invoked by the theory directly correspond to structural features of the world. Such an interpretation is not the only one available, however, and it is a substantive philosophical (and linguistic) issue which interpretation is correct. Accordingly, I develop and defend an alternative interpretation of semantic theories according to which the structural features of these theories and of their theorems reflect biological and computational constraints on the architecture of the language faculty and historical contingencies in its evolutionary development. Supposedly metaphysically committing features of the theory—including the appearance of quantification and (ostensibly) referring terms—may thus be arepresentational artifacts of these constraints, rather than representational features that reflect metaphysical reality. To determine the metaphysical consequences of a semantic theory then, we must determine which of its features represent language-independent characteristics of the world and which are arepresentational consequences of the structure of the language faculty. To do this, however, we must have some prior idea what the language-independent world is like—that is, we must engage in prior metaphysical theorizing that is not beholden to the semantic theory itself. ; Ph.D. ; Philosophy ; University of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies ; http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/63620/1/brownjd_1.pdf
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Humanities; Meta-ontology; Metaphysics; Ontology; Philosophy; Philosophy of Language; Semantics
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What We Can Do with Words: Essays on the Relationship Between Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Theorizing
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Organizational investigations: an exploration of Wittgenstein's potential contribution to the study of organization
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