Unanswered Questions
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Philosophically-inclined controlled/modified natural languages like Newspeak and E-Prime?
Good morning! I hope everyone is having a great holiday.
There is a field of research, development and, should I say, sort of "conlanging" called Controlled Natural Languages (CNLs). In ...
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Difference between Carnap and Quine's views
What are the main differences between Carnap and Quine's views regarding internal / external questions and realism? Quine called Carnap a Platoist, yet I don't understand why and what exactly the ...
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"Is" color extension, and vice versa?
In his mereology, Husserl defines moments as inseparable parts and cites examples such as the relationship between intensity and quality or the relationship between color and extension: I never see a ...
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Problems with Frege's theory regarding anaphorisms and indexicals
While reading Propositoinal Attitude Reports, I came across a part I don't understand.
Consider the following.
(8) Jack and Jill went up the hill and Jack believes that she went up first.
There is a ...
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Extensional context:"S believes in x"
I know that there is some research in philosophy on the difference between (A) "S believes that p" and (B) "S believes in x" (e.g. H. H. Price and Gendler Szabó). But I cannot find ...
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Does anyone distinguish linguistic univocity/analogy from metaphysical univocity/analogy?
Classical Theists (and other Realists) inherit Plato's Theory of Forms, and posit the existence of Forms such as Goodness, Truth, Beauty, Justice, and so on. Non-Christian Realists might say these ...
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Grice: Comparing Natural Meaning, Non-Natural Meaning, Conventional Implicature and Generalized Conversational Implicature
I am currently reading "Meaning" and "Logic and Conversation" by Paul Grice.
I find it a little difficult to differentiate clearly between his concepts "natural meaning", "non-natural meaning", "...
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Is this a solution to the disjunction problem of causal representation?
As I understand it, the disjunction problem is how could a causal theory of inner representation account for mistaken identification of external objects or object types. For example, if I see a fox ...
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Kripke's Puzzle Confusion
I'm not convinced that the Fregean rebuttal has been successfully repelled by Kripke in Kripke's puzzle. Don't Londres and London have two different senses in that Pierre associates Londres with being ...
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Frege On sense and Reference - question about something Frege says about Sense vs Ideas
Frege says in On Sense and Reference that "The same sense is not always connected, even in the same man, with the same idea." (pg 26). What does he mean by this? I do not see how this can be ...
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Are there any good or interesting critiques to Nagarjuna's philosophy
After studying him I found in him some of the most brilliant and conclusive arguments about "reality" and whatever it emerges from it. But I wish to know if there are any critiques that ...
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Can we see perlocutionary acts as indirect illocutionary acts? Does the distinction actually makes sense?
The question of distinguishing types of linguistic acts (speech acts, illocutionary acts, and perlocutionary) has already been answered, but I wonder: can we not think of this distinction as a ...
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What are some ways of understanding plural predication (and what are some academic resources on the matter)?
The particular case I'm thinking about has to do with existence. Peter Van Inwagen writes:
'When I say that affirmation of existence is denial of the number zero, I
mean only that to say that Fs exist ...
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Can we really see or hear action or event?
Concrete nouns refer to material objects which we can see or touch.
Abstract nouns refer to things which are not material objects, such as ideas, feelings and situations.
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Can logical assertions be read as not having some or any implications?
Is there a way to restrict the implication of a claim? In other words, is it possible to express truths in logic that do not have logical implications, and if so does this have a name in logic and ...
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