. 1 The pragmatic nature of grammatical categories The topic of this paper is a seemingly trivial linguistic fact, but it has strong

in the original version of Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science. But in an appendix to that same text appearing twenty years later, Weyl (1949, p. 219) admitted that this confidence was misplaced: The aim of Hilbert’s “Beweistheorie ” was, as he declared, “die Grundlagenfragen einfürallemal aus der Welt

More or less final version. To appear in Natural Language Semantics. According to the alternative semantics for focus, the semantic reflex of intonational focus is a second semantic value, which in the case of a sentence is a set of propositions. We examine a range of semantic and pragmatic

This study explores the premise that knowledge in new product development proves both a barrier to and a source of innovation. To understand the problematic nature of knowledge and the boundaries that result, an ethnographic study was used to understand how knowledge is structured differently

is paper seeks to show that the turn toward local scientic practices in the phi-losophy of science is not a turn away from transcendental investigations. On the contrary, a pragmatist approach can very well be (re)connected with Kantian tran-scendental examination of the necessary conditions for the possibility of scientic representation and cognition, insofar as the a priori conditions that transcenden-tal philosophy of science examines are understood as historically relative and thus potentially changing. e issue of scientic realism will be considered from this perspective, with special emphasis onomas Kuhn’s conception of paradigms as frameworks making truth-valued scientic statements possible and on Charles S. Peirce’s realism about “real generals”.

This paper explores the Korean honorific systems and describes how semantic and pragmatic factors inter Act with overall grammatical structures of the language. Lii I will argue that honorific agreement can only be treated

Grice (1957) drew a famous distinction between natural(N) and non-natural(NN) meaning, where what is meant(NN) is broadly equivalent to what is intentionally communicated. This paper argues that Grice’s dichotomy overlooks the fact that spontaneously occurring natural signs may be intentionally

this paper is that the nature of the pragmatic information available from the use of linguistic signs does not parallel the more specifically linguistic information carried by signs. For one thing, even including the indexical information (i.e., indices for speaker, hearer, time and location

It has long been noted that Natural Language utterances can communicate more than their conventional meaning (Grice, 1975). It has also been noted that behaving appropriately in response to instructions given in Natural Language requires understanding more than their conventional meaning (Suppes

The reductionist/holist debate seems an impoverished one, with many participants appearing to adopt a position first and constructing rationalisations second. Here I propose an intermediate position of pragmatic holism, that irrespective of whether all natural systems are theoretically reducible