THE PROBLEM OF KNOWLEDGE
... very complicated matter, if indeed it could be done at all. Moreover, we cannot assume that, even in particular instances, an answer to the question How do you know? will always be forthcoming. There may very well be cases in which one knows that something is so without its being possible to say how ...
... very complicated matter, if indeed it could be done at all. Moreover, we cannot assume that, even in particular instances, an answer to the question How do you know? will always be forthcoming. There may very well be cases in which one knows that something is so without its being possible to say how ...
To: Paul Robinson
... construction or the outcome it led to if the alternative frame either spontaneously comes to consciousness or is raised by someone else, but doing so will have the impact she suggests – an increase in the sense of punishers’ agency. But what clues might one have (and it won’t be more than clues) th ...
... construction or the outcome it led to if the alternative frame either spontaneously comes to consciousness or is raised by someone else, but doing so will have the impact she suggests – an increase in the sense of punishers’ agency. But what clues might one have (and it won’t be more than clues) th ...
From The Philosophy of Ernst Cassirer, edited by
... absence of correct conceptions lead to misconceptions? And why should language, supposedly a practical instrument for conveying thought, serve to resist and distort scientific thought? The misconceptions interested him. If the logical and factual type of thought which science demands is hard to main ...
... absence of correct conceptions lead to misconceptions? And why should language, supposedly a practical instrument for conveying thought, serve to resist and distort scientific thought? The misconceptions interested him. If the logical and factual type of thought which science demands is hard to main ...
The Method – Analysis and Criticisms
... Is knowing something the same things as being certain that it is true? It does not seem so. If not, is Descartes setting himself too tough a challenge? Knowing and being certain seem to be different for the following reason. If I know p, I have sufficient justification for believing p to be true. Fo ...
... Is knowing something the same things as being certain that it is true? It does not seem so. If not, is Descartes setting himself too tough a challenge? Knowing and being certain seem to be different for the following reason. If I know p, I have sufficient justification for believing p to be true. Fo ...
Early Intervention - Georgia State University
... The CI is surgically inserted through the mastoid bone into the cochlea, located in the inner ear. The surgery lasts 2-3 hours and requires an overnight stay in the hospital. After 4-6 weeks the CI is “tuned” by the audiologist to match the individual’s needs. The ...
... The CI is surgically inserted through the mastoid bone into the cochlea, located in the inner ear. The surgery lasts 2-3 hours and requires an overnight stay in the hospital. After 4-6 weeks the CI is “tuned” by the audiologist to match the individual’s needs. The ...
Stove`s Discovery of the Worst Argument in the World
... This is a ‘Worst Argument’, undoubtedly, close to a Gem. It is just a linguistic version: we cannot speak about things except through the forms of language, therefore we cannot speak about things as they are in themselves. The apparent preceding reasoning from Saussure’s view of linguistic structure ...
... This is a ‘Worst Argument’, undoubtedly, close to a Gem. It is just a linguistic version: we cannot speak about things except through the forms of language, therefore we cannot speak about things as they are in themselves. The apparent preceding reasoning from Saussure’s view of linguistic structure ...
- Falmouth University Research Repository
... completely independently, from a mysterious, uncanny place completely outside of human consciousness. Parallel this fascination with automata was a philosophical and literary enquiry into language, and of the human subject’s relation to language. Literary theorist Paul De Man read Romantic poetry an ...
... completely independently, from a mysterious, uncanny place completely outside of human consciousness. Parallel this fascination with automata was a philosophical and literary enquiry into language, and of the human subject’s relation to language. Literary theorist Paul De Man read Romantic poetry an ...
Ethical Problems Related to Language and Linguistic Practices
... to have at least a tentative understanding of the concept of ethics. The following characterization attempts to take into consideration several often-mentioned dimensions of ethics. First, ethics refers to valuations and prescriptive (i.e., commanding or prohibitive) notions that aim to regulate the ...
... to have at least a tentative understanding of the concept of ethics. The following characterization attempts to take into consideration several often-mentioned dimensions of ethics. First, ethics refers to valuations and prescriptive (i.e., commanding or prohibitive) notions that aim to regulate the ...
SEMANTICS – AN INTERVIEW WITH JERRY FODOR
... - It is wildly implausible that we don’t, at least some of the time, think about the world. Semantic Idealism seems to deny this and hence to be false on the face of it. - The Idealist sort of semantics requires that there are lots of analytic propositions (enough to fix the content of each of our ...
... - It is wildly implausible that we don’t, at least some of the time, think about the world. Semantic Idealism seems to deny this and hence to be false on the face of it. - The Idealist sort of semantics requires that there are lots of analytic propositions (enough to fix the content of each of our ...
Analogy and the Apophatic Way - PushMe Press makes Ethics
... but to indicate in due proportion the degree of reality that the thing in question has. Aquinas has in mind he common observation from general experience which shows that language is often used in an analogical way to express similarities between things that enjoy rather different modes of being. A ...
... but to indicate in due proportion the degree of reality that the thing in question has. Aquinas has in mind he common observation from general experience which shows that language is often used in an analogical way to express similarities between things that enjoy rather different modes of being. A ...
Philosophy 103 Linguistics 103 Introductory Logic
... Descriptive claims attempt to give an account of how the world is. This is Factual Meaning. Normative claims attempt to give an account of how the world ought to be, or grade the world relative to a scale. This is Normative Meaning. ...
... Descriptive claims attempt to give an account of how the world is. This is Factual Meaning. Normative claims attempt to give an account of how the world ought to be, or grade the world relative to a scale. This is Normative Meaning. ...
Philosophy, Spoken Word, Written Text and Beyond
... So far, the nature of the obstacle which the traditional linear written form of philosophical discourse presents to Wittgenstein’s later philosophy was left without comment. The inability to “weld [Wittgenstein’s] results together” could have been, in principle, of two different kinds: 1) the author ...
... So far, the nature of the obstacle which the traditional linear written form of philosophical discourse presents to Wittgenstein’s later philosophy was left without comment. The inability to “weld [Wittgenstein’s] results together” could have been, in principle, of two different kinds: 1) the author ...
March 10
... Intentionalism is the view that performing speech acts – roughly, saying something – necessarily involves a speaker’s intention to produce some kind of effect in the hearer. It also typically involves the further claim that understanding a speech act necessarily involves the hearer coming to recogni ...
... Intentionalism is the view that performing speech acts – roughly, saying something – necessarily involves a speaker’s intention to produce some kind of effect in the hearer. It also typically involves the further claim that understanding a speech act necessarily involves the hearer coming to recogni ...
Thinking, Intelligence, and Language Chapter 8
... • “Students who are used to succeeding in high school by cramming for tests and relying on parental pressure to get homework done may find that in college these strategies are no longer viable ways to success.” • How could a student in this position “think outside the box” to become a successful ...
... • “Students who are used to succeeding in high school by cramming for tests and relying on parental pressure to get homework done may find that in college these strategies are no longer viable ways to success.” • How could a student in this position “think outside the box” to become a successful ...
Thinking Intelligence and Language PRESENTATION
... • “Students who are used to succeeding in high school by cramming for tests and relying on parental pressure to get homework done may find that in college these strategies are no longer viable ways to success.” • How could a student in this position “think outside the box” to become a successful ...
... • “Students who are used to succeeding in high school by cramming for tests and relying on parental pressure to get homework done may find that in college these strategies are no longer viable ways to success.” • How could a student in this position “think outside the box” to become a successful ...
evolutionary view
... Animals use the incoming information as cues to “perceptual inferences,” which add information to what is obtained by the psychophysical transducers. That which adds information to sensory input I propose to call a representation. ◦ L. Kováč’s idea of embedding cognition ...
... Animals use the incoming information as cues to “perceptual inferences,” which add information to what is obtained by the psychophysical transducers. That which adds information to sensory input I propose to call a representation. ◦ L. Kováč’s idea of embedding cognition ...
Review of: Line Brandt, The Communicative Mind
... The book proper begins with an exploration of ›fictivity‹, arguing that fictional interaction has its primary meaning in its own articulation, rather than as a representation of something real and tangible. Exploring non-actuality is particularly interesting for me, with my own research into literar ...
... The book proper begins with an exploration of ›fictivity‹, arguing that fictional interaction has its primary meaning in its own articulation, rather than as a representation of something real and tangible. Exploring non-actuality is particularly interesting for me, with my own research into literar ...
Does Broca`s play by the rules?
... tion, rather than (say) the acquisition of conscious rules in a recursive version of a language game like Pig Latin. Especially given that subjects were told the rules in explicit form (in contrast to children who extract the rules of language without explicit instruction), it will be important to s ...
... tion, rather than (say) the acquisition of conscious rules in a recursive version of a language game like Pig Latin. Especially given that subjects were told the rules in explicit form (in contrast to children who extract the rules of language without explicit instruction), it will be important to s ...
PSYC 2314 Chapter 6
... Combinations (18-24 months) – By using mental combinations, toddlers begin to anticipate and solve simple problems without resorting to trail-and-error experimentation. – Enables the toddler to remember much better, to anticipate future events, and to pretend. ...
... Combinations (18-24 months) – By using mental combinations, toddlers begin to anticipate and solve simple problems without resorting to trail-and-error experimentation. – Enables the toddler to remember much better, to anticipate future events, and to pretend. ...
Jeff Elman In what ways does language aid human cognition and
... e. All of the above Which of the following is not a primitive form of communication? a. Kanzi the chimpanzee following cooking commands b. Vervet alarm calls c. Bee dance d. Protective coloration in butterflies e. None of the above Which of the following is true? a. There is neither a language gene ...
... e. All of the above Which of the following is not a primitive form of communication? a. Kanzi the chimpanzee following cooking commands b. Vervet alarm calls c. Bee dance d. Protective coloration in butterflies e. None of the above Which of the following is true? a. There is neither a language gene ...
At two months of age
... Toddlers enjoy and benefit from many of the same preliteracy activities as older preschoolers do. • Interactive reading has powerful effects on toddler language development (Whitehurst and colleagues). • Larger vocabulary gains were reported for young children who engaged in dialogic reading. ...
... Toddlers enjoy and benefit from many of the same preliteracy activities as older preschoolers do. • Interactive reading has powerful effects on toddler language development (Whitehurst and colleagues). • Larger vocabulary gains were reported for young children who engaged in dialogic reading. ...
An Introduction to Linguistics
... • They pointed to onomatopoetic words and suggested that these form the basis of language, or at least the core of the basic vocabulary. • It was out of the natural cries that man constructed words. ...
... • They pointed to onomatopoetic words and suggested that these form the basis of language, or at least the core of the basic vocabulary. • It was out of the natural cries that man constructed words. ...
2 nd Language Learners
... adults in learning a language 3. Time in contact with language: - Children spend hours in contact with their first language. They are also exposed to the language in other social settings other than the home, for example the playground, the classroom and even the television. - Exposed to a large ran ...
... adults in learning a language 3. Time in contact with language: - Children spend hours in contact with their first language. They are also exposed to the language in other social settings other than the home, for example the playground, the classroom and even the television. - Exposed to a large ran ...
Understanding Communication in Second Language Classrooms
... term and even explains grammatical features not found (or hardly used) in English but that are important for understanding other languages (such as case or gender). For each entry in the book, there are different subsections (explanation, examples, contrasts, relationships, and for interest). Some a ...
... term and even explains grammatical features not found (or hardly used) in English but that are important for understanding other languages (such as case or gender). For each entry in the book, there are different subsections (explanation, examples, contrasts, relationships, and for interest). Some a ...