Titlebook: Compositionality, Context and Semantic Values; Essays in Honour of Robert J. Stainton,Christopher Viger Book 2009 Springer Science+Busines

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Preliminary Considerations of Design,on-literally. In this paper, I do two things. ., I argue that certain arguments that Cappelen and Lepore would likely raise against a direct expression view of metaphor won‘t work. ., appealing to considerations used in support of my first point, I argue that one of Cappelen and Lepore‘s central arg

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Preliminary Considerations of Design,a. These include the phenomena of single-object advantage, detecting patterns by selecting relevant parts (and executing “visual routines”), and keeping track of individual objects that move among identical distractors (in Multiple Object Tracking experiments). I also discuss the need for a mechanis

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Contextualism, Skepticism and Objectivity is little reason to believe that our words have such context-invariant meanings, and I suggest that the pragmatic picture of assertion can secure a rich enough conception of objectivity to address the skeptic.

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The Direct Expression of Metaphorical Contenton-literally. In this paper, I do two things. ., I argue that certain arguments that Cappelen and Lepore would likely raise against a direct expression view of metaphor won‘t work. ., appealing to considerations used in support of my first point, I argue that one of Cappelen and Lepore‘s central arg

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“If”, “Unless”, and Quantification to the thesis that natural language is semantically compositional. More recently, Higginbotham (2003) and von Fintel and Iatridou (2002) have suggested that compositionality can be upheld, but only if we assume the validity of the principle of Conditional Excluded Middle. I argue that these authors

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On the Epistemic Utility of ,hat .’) depends on the context of the report. Insofar as the notion of . captures the content dimension of such reports, the result is that this notion is of little use to epistemology, and in particular cannot be used to capture the content dimension of those speech acts that are apt for the testim

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