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  1. Brass tacks in linguistic theory: Innate grammatical principles.Stephen Grain, Andrea Gualmini & Paul Pietroski - 2005 - In Peter Carruthers, Stephen Laurence & Stephen P. Stich, The Innate Mind: Structure and Contents. New York, US: Oxford University Press on Demand. pp. 1--175.
    In the normal course of events, children manifest linguistic competence equivalent to that of adults in just a few years. Children can produce and understand novel sentences, they can judge that certain strings of words are true or false, and so on. Yet experience appears to dramatically underdetermine the com- petence children so rapidly achieve, even given optimistic assumptions about children’s nonlinguistic capacities to extract information and form generalizations on the basis of statistical regularities in the input. These considerations underlie (...)
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    Brass Tacks in Linguistic Theory.Stephen Grain, Andrea Gualmini & Paul Pietroski - 2005 - In Peter Carruthers, Stephen Laurence & Stephen P. Stich, The Innate Mind: Structure and Contents. New York, US: Oxford University Press on Demand. pp. 1--175.
    This chapter presents detailed empirical work on several aspects of children's linguistic performance, focusing in particular on evidence that even two-year-old children understand that the meanings of determiners are ‘conservative’, that the meaning of natural language disjunction is ‘inclusive–or’, and that the structural notion of ‘c-command’ governs a range of linguistic phenomena. This and other works are used to defend three related versions of the argument from the poverty of the stimulus, each of which strongly supports the existence of an (...)
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    John Dewey on Happiness: Going Against the Grain of Contemporary Thought.Stephen M. Fishman & Lucille McCarthy - 2009 - Contemporary Pragmatism 6 (2):111-135.
    Dewey's theory of happiness goes against the grain of much contemporary psychologic and popular thought by identifying the highest form of human happiness with moral behavior. Such happiness, according to Dewey, avoids being at the mercy of circumstances because it is independent of the pleasures and successes we take from experience and, instead, is dependent upon the disposition we bring to experience. It accompanies a disposition characterized by an abiding interest in objects in which all can share, one founded (...)
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    The Metaphysics of Causality and Novelty.Stephen Bickham - 2009 - The Pluralist 4 (3):64 - 68.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:The Metaphysics of Causality and NoveltyStephen BickhamI find myself in agreement with most of the points of Crosby's position that there are new things and new events in the world. Like him, I hold that determinists are mistaken, and I believe that time flows one way only. I appreciate Crosby's amendment of Whitehead's category of the ultimate from creativity to creativity/destructiveness or, translating Spinoza's term, nature naturing. And finally (...)
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    Oral Imagery In Catullus 7.Stephen Bertman - 1978 - Classical Quarterly 28 (02):477-.
    How many kisses will be enough for Catullus? That is the question that opens Poem 7. The answer: as many as are the grains of sand in the Libyan desert, asmany as are the stars in the nightime sky. Yet in this poem sand and stars do notfunction simply as quantitative symbols. Each is in fact described in a mannerthat subtly alludes to the mouth – the organ from which Lesbia's kisses couldcome.
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  6. Grain and content.Stephen Neale - 1998 - Philosophical Issues 9:353-358.
    lt is widely held that entertaining a belief or forming a judgement involves the exercise of conceptual capacities; and to this extent the representational content of a belief or judgement is said to be "con— ceptual". According to Gareth Evans (1980), not all psychological states have conceptual content in this sense. In particular, perceptual states have non—conceptual content; it is not until one forms a judgement on the basis of a perceptual experience that one touches the realm of conceptual content.
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    Misoriented grain boundaries vicinal to the twin in Nickel part II: thermodynamics of hydrogen segregation.Christopher J. O’Brien & Stephen M. Foiles - 2016 - Philosophical Magazine 96 (14):1463-1484.
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    Misoriented grain boundaries vicinal to the twin in nickel Part I: thermodynamics & temperature-dependent structure.Christopher J. O’Brien, Douglas L. Medlin & Stephen M. Foiles - 2016 - Philosophical Magazine 96 (13):1285-1304.
  9. Infinity, Choice, and Hume’s Principle.Stephen Mackereth - 2024 - Journal of Philosophical Logic 53 (5):1413-1439.
    It has long been known that in the context of axiomatic second-order logic (SOL), Hume’s Principle (HP) is mutually interpretable with “the universe is Dedekind infinite” (DI). In this paper, we offer a more fine-grained analysis of the logical strength of HP, measured by deductive implications rather than interpretability. Our main result is that HP is not deductively conservative over SOL + DI. That is, SOL + HP proves additional theorems in the language of pure second-order logic that are not (...)
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  10. Cognitive Penetrability, Rationality and Restricted Simulation.Stephen Stich & Shaun Nichols - 1997 - Mind and Language 12 (3-4):297-326.
    Heal (1996a) maintains that evidence of cognitive penetrability doesn't determine whether stimulation theory or theory theory wins. Given the wide variety of mechanisms and processes that get called ‘simulation’, we argue that it's not useful to ask‘who wins?’. The label ‘simulation’picks out no natural or theoretically interesting category. We propose a more fine‐grained taxonomy and argue that some processes that have been labelled ‘simulation’, eg.,‘actual‐situation‐simulation’, clearly do exist, while other processes labelled ‘simulation’, e.g., ‘pretence‐driven‐off‐line‐simulation’are quite controversial. We do concede that (...)
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    Infinity, Choice, and Hume’s Principle.Stephen Mackereth - 2024 - Journal of Philosophical Logic 53 (5):1413-1439.
    It has long been known that in the context of axiomatic second-order logic (SOL), Hume’s Principle (HP) is mutually interpretable with “the universe is Dedekind infinite” (DI). In this paper, we offer a more fine-grained analysis of the logical strength of HP, measured by deductive implications rather than interpretability. Our main result is that HP is not deductively conservative over SOL + DI. That is, SOL + HP proves additional theorems in the language of pure second-order logic that are not (...)
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    JOTT: When Things Disappear... and Come Back or Relocate – And Why it Really Happens by Mary Rose Barringto.Stephen Braude - 2019 - Journal of Scientific Exploration 33 (1).
    This book accomplishes the nearly miraculous achievement of being both substantive and highly entertaining. According to Barrington, “JOTT,” derived from “Just One of Those Things,” stands for a kind of “spatial discontinuity”—namely, a motley class of events in which objects appear or disappear in mysterious ways. For example, some can be classified as “Walkabouts,” in which “an article disappears from the place where it was known to have been and is found in another place.” Similarly, in “Comebacks,” “a known article (...)
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    Ultimate homogeneity: A dialogue.Stephen Friedman - 1988 - Philosophy Research Archives 14:425-53.
    Throughout his metaphysical writings, Sellars maintains that current microtheory, with its particulate paradigm, can never depict adequately---even in principle---a universe populated with sentient beings like us. Why not? Experience for us involves the presence of an occurrent perceptual core of ultimately homogeneous secondary qualities. Sellars’ “Grain Argument” demonstrates that physical objects qua clouds of discrete particles cannot instantiate such qualities and that they cannot be assigned to an intrasentient realm construed as clusters of discrete, particulate neurons. Neither, contends Sellars, (...)
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  14. Abstraction and the Origin of General Ideas.Stephen Laurence & Eric Margolis - 2012 - Philosophers' Imprint 12:1-22.
    Philosophers have often claimed that general ideas or representations have their origin in abstraction, but it remains unclear exactly what abstraction as a psychological process consists in. We argue that the Lockean aspiration of using abstraction to explain the origins of all general representations cannot work and that at least some general representations have to be innate. We then offer an explicit framework for understanding abstraction, one that treats abstraction as a computational process that operates over an innate quality space (...)
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    A Step Toward the Elucidation of Quantitative Laws of Nature.Stephen Perry - 2020 - Stance 13 (1):72-82.
    When we mathematically model natural phenomena, there is an assumption concerning how the mathematics relates to the actual phenomenon in question. This assumption is that mathematics represents the world by “mapping on” to it. I argue that this assumption of mapping, or correspondence between mathematics and natural phenomena, breaks down when we ignore the fine grain of our physical concepts. I show that this is a source of trouble for the mapping account of applied mathematics, using the case of (...)
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    The Self and Person in Indian Philosophy.Stephen H. Phillips - 1991 - In Eliot Deutsch & Ronald Bontekoe, A Companion to World Philosophies. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 324–333.
    Classical Indian views of the self and person range from maximal to minimal conceptions, from a view of everyone's true self as the supreme being, infinite, immortal, self‐existent, self‐aware, and intrinsically blissful, to a view of the person as nothing more than the living human body that ceases to be at death. (“Consciousness is an adventitious attribute of the body, like the intoxicating power of fermented grain.”) Every major school and subschool takes a stance on what a self is (...)
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    Analysis of plant nutrient management strategies: Conventional and alternative approaches. [REVIEW]Stephen E. Gareau - 2004 - Agriculture and Human Values 21 (4):347-353.
    During times of economic uncertainty, such as the current period, all costs of agricultural production become important and worthy of close scrutiny if the threat of farm foreclosures is to be minimized. This concern particularly applies to the cost of plant nutrients, which, under conventional approaches, typically represents 24%–30% (or more) of the total variable costs of production [Lu et al. (2000) Food Reviews International 16(2): 121–157; Bullen and Brown (2001) Economic Evaluation of UNR Cotton, NC State University, Raleigh, North (...)
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    Pleonastic Propositions.Stephen Schiffer - 2005 - In Bradley P. Armour-Garb & J. C. Beall, Deflationary Truth. Open Court Press. pp. 353--81.
    Pleonastic entities are entities whose existence is secured by something-from-nothing transformations, these being conceptually valid inferences that take one from a statement in which no reference is made to a thing of a certain kind to a statement—often a pleonastic equivalent of the first statement—in which there is a reference to a thing of that kind. The possibility of pleonastic entities is further explained in terms of the notion of one theory being a conservative extension of another. Propositions are pleonastic (...)
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    Logical consequence as truth-preservation.Stephen Read - 2003 - Logique and Analyse 183 (4):479-493.
    t is often suggested that truth-preservation is insufficient for logical consequence, and that consequence needs to satisfy a further condition of relevance. Premises and conclusion in a valid consequence must be relevant to one another, and truth-preservation is too coarse-grained a notion to guarantee that. Thus logical consequence is the intersection of truth-preservation and relevance. This situation has the absurd consequence that one might concede that the conclusion of an argument was true (since the argument had true premises and was (...)
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    Living accountably: accountability as a virtue.C. Stephen Evans - 2023 - Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    In contemporary culture, accountability is usually understood in terms of holding people who have done something wrong accountable for their actions. As such, it is virtually synonymous with punishing someone. Living Accountably argues that accountability should also be understood as a significant, forward-looking virtue, an excellence possessed by those who willingly embrace being accountable to those who have proper standing, when that standing is exercised appropriately. Those who have this virtue are people who strive to live accountably. The book gives (...)
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  21. Active set Methods for Problems in Column Block Angular Form.Julio Michael Stern & Stephen A. Vavasis - 1993 - Computational and Applied Mathematics 12 (3):199-226.
    We study active set methods for optimization problems in Block Angular Form (BAF). We begin by reviewing some standard basis factorizations, including Saunders' orthogonal factorization and updates for the simplex method that do not impose any restriction on the pivot sequence and maintain the basis factorization structured in BAF throughout the algorithm. We then suggest orthogonal factorization and updating procedures that allow coarse grain parallelization, pivot updates local to the affected blocks, and independent block reinversion. A simple parallel environment (...)
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    Peter Whitfield. Landmarks in Western Science: From Prehistory to the Atomic Age. 256 pp., frontis., illus., figs., bibl., index. New York: Routledge, 1999. $35, Can $50. [REVIEW]Stephen Weldon - 2002 - Isis 93 (2):279-280.
    A new biography of one of the founding fathers of the Scientific Revolution, Robert Boyle, is no easy undertaking, but no scholar is better poised to give us a revisionist view of this iconic figure than Michael Hunter. For fourteen years Hunter, together with Edward Davis, supervised the definitive fourteen‐volume edition of Boyle's complete works, published and unpublished. This was the first such undertaking since the 1744 edition compiled by the cleric and antiquary Thomas Birch. Almost no Boyle scholar has (...)
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    Commercial bakers and the relocalization of wheat in western Washington State.Karen M. Hills, Jessica R. Goldberger & Stephen S. Jones - 2013 - Agriculture and Human Values 30 (3):365-378.
    Interest is growing in the relocalization of staple crops, including wheat, in western Washington (WWA), a nontraditional wheat-growing area. Commercial bakers are potentially important food chain intermediaries in the case of relocalized wheat production. We conducted a mail survey of commercial bakers in WWA to assess their interest in sourcing wheat/flour from WWA, identify the characteristics of bakeries most likely to purchase wheat/flour from WWA, understand the factors important to bakers in purchasing regionally produced wheat/flour, and identify perceived barriers to (...)
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    Yablovian ‘If-Thenism’.Gideon Rosen - 2017 - Australasian Philosophical Review 1 (2):143-152.
    ABSTRACTThe paper explores Stephen Yablo's suggestion that ‘If-Thenism’ in the philosophy of mathematics is best formulated as the thesis that the real content of a mathematical claim C is the result of subtracting the potentially problematic metaphysical commitments of mathematics from C [Yablo 2017]. Yablo's proposal assumes that some propositions make others true. The present discussion assumes that propositions are coarse-grained sets of possible worlds and asks what Yablo's proposal looks like on that assumption. The conclusion is that the (...)
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    Sosa on knowledge from testimony.Stephen Wright - 2014 - Analysis 74 (2):249-254.
    Ernest Sosa has recently argued that the knowledge we get from instruments and the knowledge we get from testimony is similar in important ways. Most importantly, the justification that supports it is similar in kind – both instrumental justification and justification from testimony is to be understood in terms of reliability. I argue that Sosa’s theory is problematic. Specifically, I argue that we can take certain attitudes towards people that we cannot coherently take towards instruments. This, I argue, grounds a (...)
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  26. Using the Human Body as a Paradigm for the Structure of Time: Some Reflections on Time’s URAM.Stephen M. Modell - 1994 - Ultimate Reality and Meaning 17 (3):197-221.
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    Reflecting on the Political Economy of Academic Medicine in the Wake of COVID-19.Stephen Molldrem - 2022 - International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 15 (1):155-158.
    The COVID-19 pandemic coincided with a transition in my scholarly life. Specifically, I shifted from being a postdoctoral fellow in an anthropology department at a traditional university to a tenure track position as an assistant professor at an institute for bioethics and health humanities within an academic health center. This development has been instructive, partly because I have begun learning about how the political economies of academic medicine and the traditional university differ, align, and respectively shape institutional research cultures. My (...)
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  28. John: Evangelist and Interpreter.Stephen S. Smalley - 1984
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    Facts as Pleonastic Truth-Makers for Pleonastic Propositions.Giorgio Volpe - manuscript
    One often hears the claim that fact-based versions of the correspondence theory of truth face a disruptive dilemma: ‘if all true propositions correspond to the same fact, the notion is useless, and if every [true] proposition corresponds to a distinct fact, then the notion becomes idle’ (Engel 2002, 21). The assumption underlying this claim is that all conceptions of facts can be assigned to either of two categories. The first includes those conceptions according to which facts are so coarse-grained that (...)
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  30. Good and bad ethology and the decent polis.Stephen Clark - 1990 - In Andros Loizou & Harry Lesser, Polis and Politics: Essays in Greek Moral and Political Philosophy. Brookfield, Vt., USA: Avebury.
     
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  31. Grounding care practices in theory: exploring the potential for the ethics of care to provide theoretical justification for patient-centered care.Stephen Clarke - unknown
    Patient-centered care is now recognized as a clinical method and ideal model for patient – health professional relationships, and many definitions have influenced its evolution. Overall the patient-centered care literature has provided relatively little to define patient-centered care at the level of the patient-professional relationship. Additionally, patient-centered care lacks grounding in ethical theory. This thesis asserts that theoretical concepts from the ethics of care can provide a stronger conceptual basis for patient-centered care.This thesis begins with a critical interpretive review of (...)
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  32. Conceiving of 'Toleration'.Stephen Cohen - 2010 - Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics 10 (1-2).
  33. Abortion and the Artificial Uterus.Stephen Coleman - 2002 - Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics 4 (2):9-18.
     
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  34. Locke's Uses of the Theory of Ideas.Stephen Nathanson - 1978 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 59 (3):241.
     
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    Plenishment in the Earth: An Ethic of Inclusion.Stephen David Ross - 1995 - State University of New York Press.
    This book is an ethic of inclusion leading from gender and sexual difference through the social world of race and culture to the natural world.
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    The Gift of Truth: Gathering the Good.Stephen David Ross - 1997 - State University of New York Press.
    Reexamines the good, tracing the history of the idea of truth as an ethical movement, and interpreting the good as nature's abundance, giving beauty and truth as gifts.
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  37. The image of Alexander.Stephen C. Rossi - 1996 - Minerva 7.
     
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  38. The Philosophy of Experience: An Analysis of the Concept of Experience Inthe Philosophy of John Dewey.Stephen David Ross - 1961 - Dissertation, Columbia University
     
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  39. The pleasures of the twist.Stephen Scales - 2018 - In Heather L. Rivera & Alexander E. Hooke, The Twilight Zone and philosophy: a dangerous dimension to visit. Chicago: Open Court.
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  40. The Equality Principle: Is It Linguistically Justifiable?Stephen W. White - 1974 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 55 (1):53-60.
     
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  41. Societies against cruelty in the United States.Stephen L. Zawistowski - 2013 - In Andrew Linzey & Desmond Tutu, The global guide to animal protection. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press.
     
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  42. Guido Terrena and the Unity of the Concept of Being.Stephen Brown - 1992 - Documenti E Studi Sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale 3 (2):599-631.
    Sulla base del ms. Vat. Borg. 39 viene edita la quaestio I del Quodlibet IV. Nell'introduzione l'A. ricorda le posizioni espresse da Enrico di Gand, Duns Scoto, Gerardo da Bologna e Erveo Natale sul tema in questione. La posizione di Guido sull'analogia dell'essere, per quanto originale, si costituisce come una valida alternativa alla opinio communis rappresentata da Gerardo da Bologna, Erveo Natale e da molti altri autori attivi tra la fine del XIII sec. e gli inizi del XIV.
     
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  43. Towards the realization of God.Stephen J. M. Brown - 1944 - Dublin: Browne & Nolan.
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  44. Enlarging the community: Companion animals.Stephen Rl Clark - 1995 - In Brenda Almond, Introducing Applied Ethics. Cambridge, USA: Wiley-Blackwell.
     
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    Critical hope: how to grapple with complexity, lead with purpose, and cultivate transformative social change.Kari Grain - 2022 - Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books.
    An introduction to the seven principles for practicing critical hope.
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  46. The Old Testament: its Background, Growth, and Content.Stephen L. McKenzie & John Kaltner - 2007
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  47. Triage education: from experience to practice standards.Stephen McNally - forthcoming - Philosophy.
     
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    Belonging in Aboriginal Australia: A Political “Cosmography”.Stephen Muecke - 2023 - Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 2023 (202):67-83.
    1. IntroductionIt is an increasingly accepted protocol to situate oneself discursively in order to approach a set of problems. This protocol, consolidated by Donna Haraway’s famous “situated knowledge,” is also evident in everyday Indigenous Australian practice.1 I begin, therefore, with my long association with the Goolarabooloo community in Broome, North-West Australia, and in particular with Paddy Roe, who started teaching me in the late 1970s. This text attempts to translate his sense of belonging to that territory, an attachment he had (...)
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    Bruno Latour and Translation.Stephen Muecke - 2024 - Theory, Culture and Society 41 (5):97-104.
    This article argues that the concept of translation is central to the work of Bruno Latour, starting before ANT, with the group working on the sociologie de la traduction at the École des Mines. As one of his translators, I reflect on the extension of his identity via translation, then on the idea of translation as ‘political labour’ across social discontinuities, including those in colonisation contexts where certain languages can become hegemonic. Finally, with Latour’s major project, the Inquiry into Modes (...)
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    Davidson on interpretation and understanding.Stephen Mulhall - 1987 - Philosophical Quarterly 37 (148):319-322.
    This article demonstrates the distortion of concepts involved in davidson's identification of linguistic understanding with interpretation. It suggests that the motivation for this distortion lies in davidson's commitment to a quinean metaphysics, In which human beings encounter bare sounds and bodily movements rather than words and actions. The affinities between this picture and that of empiricism are briefly adumbrated.
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