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Theories and Shifting Domains,i and Chomsky are studying the same domain in their theories. More significantly, such radical shifts can be detected within the different phases of generative grammar itself. Finally, the phenomenon of lost domain is not restricted to linguistics. Current attempt in physics to somehow unify the qua

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The Sceptic and the Cognitivist,ilosopher is armed with a ground-level conception, in fact a form of solidarity, with the understanding already reached in common life for people to lead their lives as rational agents. Using the resources of common life relentlessly to question the real significance of science, philosophy may play

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From Things to Needs,n philosophy may now be facing a lack of relevance due to the development of the cognitive sciences. This conclusion might be reached if philosophy is assumed to have the same explanatory goal as science. In contrast, a quick look at the origin and form of Indian philosophy suggests that its goals m

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Yearning for Consciousness,moment we wish to . the concept of a person to fetuses and fauna. We need the concept to form some conception of an . consisting of fellow beings just as we need the concept of beauty to form a conception of an aesthetic order. Those needs are essentially normative with no demand for descriptive tru

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Ascription of Knowledge,tions that a knowledge-claim must satisfy in order to convince the sceptic of the validity of the claim. Theoretically, this concept will not be needed in a culture in which there is already settled agreement on what counts as knowledge in terms of texts that may not be questioned. It is likely that

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Beliefs and Believers,amework, the folk concept sorts beliefs into different kinds to highlight the believer, the kind of person she is. Since the sorting is always in context depending on the agents and their histories, no partitioning of beliefs is possible in advance. In that sense, belief is a concept designed for so

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Varieties of Interpretation,trategies are ., where one interpretation emerges as the right one, and ., where several interpretations obtain at the same time. It is said that the so-called cultural entities display both the strategies. I will argue that the notion of interpretation varies so much even across cultural entities s