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Pelczar, Michael Walsh. "Philosophical semantics." Full text, Acrobat Reader required, 2000. http://viva.lib.virginia.edu/etd/diss/ArtsSci/Philosophy/2000/Pelczar/Pelczar.pdf.

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Bremer, Manuel. "Philosophische Semantik /." Frankfurt [u.a.] : Ontos-Verl, 2005. http://www.ontos-verlag.de/Buchreihen-LOGOS-Bremer.html.

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Carrigan, Raymond Sidney John. "General semantics." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/18080.

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McDonald, Brian Edison. "Constraint variational semantics." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3274279.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Philosophy, 2007.<br>Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-07, Section: A, page: 2977. Adviser: Anil Gupta. Title from dissertation home page (viewed Apr. 9, 2008).

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Heck, Richard Gustave. "Logic, semantics, ontology." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/13940.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1991.<br>Vita.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 195-197).<br>by Richard Gustave Heck, Jr.<br>Ph.D.

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Nivre, Joakim. "Situations, meaning, and communication a situation theoretic approach to meaning in language and communication /." Göteborg, Sweden : Dept. of Linguistics, University of Göteborg, 1992. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/31171651.html.

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Haser, Verena. "Metaphor, metonymy, and experientialist philosophy : challenging cognitive semantics /." Berlin : de Gruyter, 2005. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip054/2004029012.html.

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Csirmaz, Aniko. "Semantics and phonology in syntax." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/33695.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2005.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-248).<br>In this thesis I argue that morphology should be allowed to interpret not only the information provided by the syntactic component, but also compositional semantic properties. This conception of grammar requires morphology to interact LF and the semantic component in addition to syntax. Applying this hypothesis, I account for the alternation between partitive and non-partitive structural case in Finnish, which is affected by the semantic pro

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Lau, Yen-fong. "Belief in semantics and psychology." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/11688.

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Copley, Bridget Lynn 1974. "The semantics of the future." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8158.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2002.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 142-144).<br>Natural languages use a number of different methods to refer to future eventualities: among them are futurates, as in (la), and futures, as in (lb) and (c). (1) a. The Red Sox (are) play(ing) the Yankees tomorrow. b. We'll change your oil in Madera. c. We're going to change your oil in Madera. This dissertation uses evidence primarily from English, with additional data from Turkish and Indonesian, to argue that these methods all involve

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Bale, Alan Clinton. "The universal scale and the semantics of comparison /." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=102479.

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Comparative constructions allow individuals to be compared according to different properties. Such comparisons form two classes, those that permit direct, comparisons (comparisons of measurements as in Seymour is taller than he is wide) and those that only allow indirect comparisons (comparisons of relative positions on separate scales as in Esme is more beautiful than Einstein is intelligent). Traditionally, these two types of comparisons have been associated with an ambiguity in the interpretations of the comparative and equative morphemes (see, Bartsch & Vennemann, 1972; Kennedy, 1999). In

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Buijsman, Stefan. "Philosophy of Mathematics for the Masses : Extending the scope of the philosophy of mathematics." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Filosofiska institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-126252.

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One of the important discussions in the philosophy of mathematics, is that centered on Benacerraf’s Dilemma. Benacerraf’s dilemma challenges theorists to provide an epistemology and semantics for mathematics, based on their favourite ontology. This challenge is the point on which all philosophies of mathematics are judged, and clarifying how we might acquire mathematical knowledge is one of the main occupations of philosophers of mathematics. In this thesis I argue that this discussion has overlooked an important part of mathematics, namely mathematics as it is exercised by ordinary people (al

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Kearns, Katherine Susan. "The semantics of the English progressive." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/13730.

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Moracchini, Sophie Ph D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Morphosyntax and semantics of degree constructions." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/124094.

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Thesis: Ph. D. in Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2019<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-188).<br>This thesis investigates the morphosyntax and the semantics of comparatives and related degree constructions through the prism of a phenomenon called evaluativity, a type of inference whereby gradable adjectives receive a context-dependent interpretation. Pursuing the view that evaluativity is contributed by an optional null operator (EVAL, Rett 2008), this dissertation achieves t

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Delaney, Jesse. "HUSSERL'S DYADIC SEMANTICS." UKnowledge, 2014. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/philosophy_etds/4.

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Husserl’s Logical Investigations contain an apparent discrepancy in their account of meaning. They first present meanings, contra psychologism, as commonly available, reiterable, invariant, possibly valid, and independent of our “acts of meaning”. They then present meaning, almost psychologistically, as a kind of intentional experience on which all truths and other transcendent meanings depend. I offer a critical developmental study of this problem within Husserl’s semantics. I argue (1) that Husserl had reason to adopt his dyadic account of signification, (2) that this “two-sided” account sha

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Horton, Michael Brady. "INFLATIONARY TRUTH-THEORETIC SEMANTICS." UKnowledge, 2012. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/philosophy_etds/1.

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I argue that satisfaction and reference—and therefore, truth—are multiply realizable properties. I advocate a novel approach motivated by a commitment to the robustness and fruitfulness of truth-theoretic approaches to natural language semantics. DEFLATIONISM: Philosophers keen on deflating the metaphysical pretensions of truth theories claim that we need not appeal to a substantive truth-property. Recently, however, some philosophers have sought to combine deflationism about truth with the view that our concept of truth or the truth-predicate can play an important role in natural language sem

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Gray, Anthony E. 1968. "The semantics and metaphysics of contingent identity." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8766.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2001.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 100-101).<br>The thesis is divided into three chapters. The first chapter considers how we ought to understand a thesis of contingent identity if it is to accomplish the work it is proposed to accomplish while at the same time avoiding certain obvious and otherwise persuasive objections. I begin by presenting a metaphysical thesis I call the Thesis of Contingent Identity, and defending it against alternatives. I then set out the principal objection to

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Hirsch, Aron Ph D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "An inflexible semantics for cross-categorial operators." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113782.

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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2017.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-323).<br>This thesis studies operators such as and and only, which occur in a broad range of environments. And, for instance, appears between sentences, intransitive verbs, quantifiers, and so forth. One line of analysis assigns and/only a "cross-categorial" semantics flexible enough to compose with different arguments. This thesis challenges that view, pursuing the "Semantic Inflexibility Hypothesis" (

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Lee, Youngjoo 1974. "The syntax and semantics of focus particles." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/28835.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2004.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-210).<br>(cont.) (iii) covert operations such as reconstruction and type raising are constrained by an economy principle so that they are disallowed when not motivated.<br>This dissertation investigates the syntax and semantics of two focus particles in Korean with special reference to their scopal behavior. The two particles under consideration are the exclusive particle man and the additive particle to. The main empirical concern of this work is to

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Åkerman, Jonas. "Extensions in flux : an essay on vagueness and context sensitivity /." Stockholm : Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-30080.

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Viebahn, Emanuel. "Semantic pluralism." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b7b744c1-0c4a-4b86-a6ff-ff5156184f76.

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This thesis defends Semantic Pluralism, the view that sentences express sets of propositions in context. It puts forward two arguments against Contextualism, the main opposing view, on which each sentence expresses exactly one proposition in context. It spells out two versions of Pluralism: Flexible Pluralism, which takes most sentences to be context-sensitive, and Strong Pluralism, which denies that context-sensitivity is widespread. And it defends Flexible Pluralism and Strong Pluralism from a number of objections.

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Ball, Brian A. "Semantics, meta-semantics, and ontology : a critique of the method of truth in metaphysics." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:6d3fbf1c-806a-4339-b16b-08560a6bbdeb.

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In this thesis, Semantics, Meta-Semantics, and Ontology, I provide a critique of the method of truth in metaphysics. Davidson has suggested that we can determine the metaphysical nature and structure of reality through semantic investigations. By contrast, I argue that it is not semantics, but meta-semantics, which reveals the metaphysically necessary and sufficient truth conditions of our claims. As a consequence I reject the Quinean (semantic) criterion of ontological commitment. In Part I, chapter 1, I argue that the metaphysically primary truth bearers are not propositions, but rather conc

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Pietroski, Paul M. "Meaning naturally--a partial defense of covariation semantics." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/14141.

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Sudo, Yasutada Ph D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "On the semantics of phi features on pronouns." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/77805.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2012.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-260).<br>This thesis investigates three topics relating to the semantics of phi features on pronouns. Part I focuses on gender features on pronouns. Following previous studies (Cooper 1983, Heim & Kratzer 1998), I claim that they are presupposition triggers. Based on this assumption, I show that predicates containing bound gendered pronouns have an assertive meaning that does not entail the gender presuppositi

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Ulicny, Brian Edward. "Issues in the philosophical foundations of lexical semantics." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/12676.

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Eklund, Matti 1974. "Paradoxes and the foundations of semantics and metaphysics." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8798.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2000.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-180).<br>Numerous philosophical problems, otherwise quite different in character, are of the following form. Certain claims which seem not only obviously true, but even constitutive of the meanings of the expressions employed, can be shown to lead to absurdity when taken together (perhaps in conjunction with contingent facts about the world). All such problems can justly be called paradoxes. The paradoxes I examine are the liar paradox, the sorites pa

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Dalglish, Steven Jack William. "Accepting Defeat: A Solution to Semantic Paradox with Defeasible Principles for Truth." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1597757494987204.

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Morena, Luca. "Word or object? : a study of disagreement in ontology /." Milano : Albo versorio, 2007. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=016234905&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.

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Cowley, Joshua D. "Inferential-role semantics: A theory of concepts for philosophy and psychology." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280685.

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Concepts are not sets of necessary and sufficient conditions. This fact has caused trouble for both psychologists and philosophers. The resultant psychological theories of concepts, which are primarily aimed at the functional role of concepts, are very specific but this specificity is at the expense of excluding some types of concepts. The resultant philosophical theories of concepts, which are primarily aimed at the content of concepts, are general but this generality is at the expense of understanding the role concepts play in the mind. My dissertation proposes a bridge between psychological

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Dodig-Crnkovic, Gordana. "Investigations into Information Semantics and Ethics of Computing." Doctoral thesis, Västerås : Mälardalen University, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-153.

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Florio, Salvatore. "The Semantics of Plurals: A Defense of Singularism." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1281280869.

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Cai, Qinghua. "Yan yi zhi bian : Wei Jin xuan xue zhong de yan shuo wen ti tan xi /." View abstract or full-text, 2007. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?HUMA%202007%20CAI.

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Thibodeau, Jason Bruce. "Ordinary language philosophy a critical re-examination /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2006. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3230033.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2006.<br>Title from first page of PDF file (viewed November 17, 2006). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-201).

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Ney, Alyssa L. "The metaphysics of unified science /." View online version; access limited to Brown University users, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3174649.

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Lee, Jin-soo. "Brandom's normative deontic theory of language." Thesis, Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2010. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B44046996.

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Roberts, Lesley. "Towards a probabilistic semantics for natural language /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2003. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe18482.pdf.

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Kanterian, Edward. "Descriptive names : a contribution to the semantics of referring expressions." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2006. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:885ec416-df87-4bf2-b3ab-4c2173f53804.

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A theory of descriptive names is developed and defended against several objections. Descriptive names pose an interesting challenge to any theory of reference, since they possess both features of proper names and definite descriptions, i.e. of expressions which are often considered to be radically different. These features are referentiality and descriptive sense. The thesis takes as its point of departure Gareth Evans's theory of descriptive names, improves upon it and discusses several other authors and related theories along the way. Chapter I provides an brief introduction to the topic and

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Nefdt, Ryan. "The metaphysics of time investigations in tense-logic and a B-series semantics." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3669.

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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 81-83).<br>The view that time flows from the future to the present and then recedes into the past is both natural and deeply problematic. So called 'A-theories' about time claim that this is the fundamental nature of temporality. This is not the view which will be defended in this paper. Rather I shall argue for what is known as a 'B-theory' analysis of time and language, one in which the relations of 'earlier than' and 'later than' are necessary and sufficient for any analysis of time. The structure of this paper is tripartite. The first part will a

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Greenhall, Owen F. R. "The semantics/pragmatics distinction : a defence of Grice." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2006. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:00db9bdd-143d-4900-b564-3af9d002f1ea.

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The historical development of Morris’ tripartite distinction between syntax, semantics and pragmatics does not follow a smooth path. Examining definitions of the terms ‘semantic’ and ‘pragmatic’ and the phenomena they have been used to describe, provides insight into alternative approaches to the semantics/pragmatics distinction. Paul Grice’s work receives particular attention and taxonomy of philosophical positions, roughly divisible into content minimalist and maximalist groups, is set up. Grice’s often neglected theory of conventional implicature is defended from objections, various tests f

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Schoubye, Anders Johan. "On describing." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2468.

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The overarching topic of this dissertation is the semantics and pragmatics of definite descriptions. It focuses on the question whether sentences such as ‘the king of France is bald’ literally assert the existence of a unique king (and therefore are false) or simply presuppose the existence of such a king (and thus fail to express propositions). One immediate obstacle to resolving this question is that immediate truth value judgments about such sentences (sentences with non-denoting descriptions) are particularly unstable; some elicit a clear intuition of falsity whereas others simply seem awk

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Li, Dilin. "Can silence be a proper response to the liar paradox?" HKBU Institutional Repository, 2020. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/877.

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Many attempts at solving the liar paradox involve either rejecting some principles in classical logic so as to block the argument that leads to the contradiction or modifying the notion of truth so that the liar sentence can be classified as true in one aspect while false in another. However, the prominent approaches based the above strategies may suffer from the revenge problem. That is, while they solve the pristine liar paradox, the introduction of the solution triggers another one with the same structure. In this dissertation, three prominent approaches to the liar paradox are first introd

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Watson, Matthew James. "Anti-realist semantics for mathematical and natural language /." Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Branquinho, João Miguel Biscaia Valadas. "Direct reference, cognitive significance and Fregean sense." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1992. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:9d87a630-2d56-4e0a-a437-ab8f3ad82ad8.

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This essay deals with certain problems in the theory of singular reference. The following question is taken as central: What role is to be assigned to nonempty and syntactically simple singular terms in fixing the semantic contents of utterances of declarative sentences in which they may occur? I focus on those aspects of the current dispute between Millian and neo-Fregean approaches to singular reference which are related to issues about the cognitive significance of language use; the following two issues are singled out as crucial: the issue about (alleged) potential differences in informati

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Carroll, Michael Scott. "Action, authority and approach: treatiseson "Zen"/"Chan", radical interpretation, and the Linji Lu." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B38955106.

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Hately, Warren. "The discourse of conflict." Thesis, Hately, Warren (2003) The discourse of conflict. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2003. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/467/.

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This dissertation deals with two problems central to contemporary philosophy: the unacknowledged bias of structuralist theory towards linguistic signs and the lack of a coherent theorisation of social conflict. In order to address these conundrums, I reconcile Saussurean and Peircean semiotics and then use Ruthrof's corporeal pragmatics to break from the verbocentric idea of language as a closed system, showing instead that verbal meanings originate from the body, its senses and its imagination, as informed by the deixis of individual communities. With the transformation of linguistic semiotic

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Hately, Warren. "The discourse of conflict." Murdoch University, 2003. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20090423.135734.

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This dissertation deals with two problems central to contemporary philosophy: the unacknowledged bias of structuralist theory towards linguistic signs and the lack of a coherent theorisation of social conflict. In order to address these conundrums, I reconcile Saussurean and Peircean semiotics and then use Ruthrofs corporeal pragmatics to break from the verbocentric idea of language as a closed system, showing instead that verbal meanings originate from the body, its senses and its imagination, as informed by the deixis of individual communities. With the transformation of linguistic semiotic

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Cameron, Matthew Dunbar. "Taking meaning out of context : essays on the foundations of natural language semantics." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/15555.

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David Lewis articulated minimal constraints on a formal theory of natural language semantics that have been widely adopted by subsequent theorists: compositionality and sentence truth in a given context. In the process, Lewis distinguished between the compositional semantic value of an expression and its propositional content relative to a context. This dissertation consists of a series of essays in which I address several questions that arise from this distinction, including how we should understand semantic values, how we should understand propositional content, and how we should understand

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Turner, Sudan A. "Intrinsically semantic concepts and the intentionality of propositional attitudes /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/5721.

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Fäldt, Tove. "With Worlds as Content : An investigation on Possible Worlds Semantics and its Problems." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Filosofiska institutionen, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-387428.

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Jolliffe, Christine. "After relativism : literary theory after the linguistic turn." Thesis, McGill University, 1998. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=35901.

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In this dissertation I examine the issues concerning the problematics of historical-textual relations in the wake of the linguistic turn. I begin by showing how the emphasis on the generative rather than the mimetic properties of language has led a number of critics to reject the notion of knowledge as "accurate representation" (Richard Rorty), and then go on to demonstrate how this critical position has undermined the way in which literary and intellectual historians alike have traditionally understood such concepts as causality, human agency and social determination.<br>I show that, in the l

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