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What is the relation between performative act and intention?
Austin distinguishes three language acts: locutive, illocutive, perfomative.
Example: I am cold and I say, "The window is open.".
The locutive is clear: it describes the state of the window. ...
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Is the name "Determinism" a misnomer? [closed]
I'm not a philosopher or even aspiring to be one, just someone who got (unfortunately) caught in the Free will vs Determinism/Indeterminism debate.
But something has been bugging me about the ...
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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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Do we REALLY understand "Meanings"? [closed]
You know one of the experiences in life that stands out is when I Witnessed God. I was in my apartment in Hyderabad, Completely Devout in my Being and SUDDENLY I FELT A PRESENCE, ABOUT 1,5 TO 2 FEET ...
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What is the reference of the phrase "the planet Venus"? [closed]
What is the reference of the phrase "the planet Venus"?
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The consistent conflation of language?
Here's something I've been pondering about which I haven't been able to quite articulate well enough. The world is deterministic as it's just a sequence of events that reveals itself deterministically....
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Do you need to know the exact definition of a word to correctly apply it?
I was just wondering whether it was necessary to lay out the full definition of a word in order to competently apply it to things, or to know it applies to things.
For example, "embryos are ...
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Are all cats and dogs mammals equivalent to all cats or dogs are mammals?
Are all cats and dogs mammals equivalent to all cats or dogs are mammals? I ask because it seems they are not. For let C be the predicate cat. Let D be the predicate dog. Let M be the predicate mammal....
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Are there some propositions that cannot be expressed easily in first order logic and in higher order logics?
Are there some propositions, i.e. statements that are either true or false, that cannot be expressed easily in first order logic and in higher order logics? I ask because of the following: Let C be ...
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Is The Knowledge of Zero Qualitatively Different From The Knowledge of Infinity?
I look at Zero and Infinity, Quantitatively, one is Nothing vs other Everything.
For some reason I find Zero more intuitive than Infinity. Just wanted to know if there is some difference between ...
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What's the deal with definitional disputes relying so much on the particulars of language?
Full disclosure: I’m a linguistics student and not a philosophy one, my only formal experience in philosophy is one epistemology and one applied ethics class
?When I was in my epistemology class, one ...
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Saussure and substance
I am wondering where Saussure identifies the substance of language. I have my own interpretation and would like to know your thoughts. First let me give you a rundown of what I think I've figured out ...
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Question about word (relationship between language and thought)
Can you think anything without word ?
Can you think any word without thought ?
Which comes first word or thought ?
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Positive/negative connotation fallacy
This is a question about a certain kind of fallacy that for the time being I'll name (badly) the "positive/negative connotation fallacy." A person engages in this fallacy, when they refuse ...
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Is the conventionalism re: the terms "electron" and "positron" an article of evidence for the inversion account of negation?
From the SEP article on negation:
In Hintikka’s (1973) game-theoretical semantics, negation is modeled by a role-switch between two players in a semantic game (cf. the entry on logic and games). A ...
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