What Exactly Did You Claim?

2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
MATTI HÄYRY
Keyword(s):  
Practical Consequence ◽  
Philosophical Argumentation

Abstract:Philosophers should express their ideas clearly. They should do this in any field of specialization, but especially when they address issues of practical consequence, as they do in bioethics. This article dissects a recent and much-debated contribution to philosophical bioethics by Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva, examines how exactly it fails to meet the requirement of clarity, and maps a way forward by outlining the ways in which philosophical argumentation could validly and soundly proceed in bioethics.

Rhetoric and philosophical argumentation

1962 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurice Natanson
Keyword(s):  
Philosophical Argumentation

Language, Literature, and Advanced Placement

1980 ◽  
Vol 162 (2) ◽  
pp. 114-125
Author(s):  
Paul Smith
Keyword(s):  
Advanced Placement ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
English Composition ◽  
Literary Language ◽  
College English ◽  
Critical Writing ◽  
Practical Consequence ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Language Literature ◽  
Composition And Literature

This article reviews some of the objections to the Advanced Placement Program in English, arguing that since that Program is the responsibility of school and college English teachers, it and the AP Examinations fairly accurately reflect and may sometimes influence the teaching of English composition and literature in the schools. It compares and contrasts the original test in Composition and Literature with the new test in Language and Composition, focusing on issues that arose in the development of the new test. It considers how some questions of both theoretical and practical consequence concerning the relationship between ordinary and literary language and between expository and critical writing are raised and tentatively answered by the Committee that develops the AP English Examinations and Course Descriptions.

scholarly journals A. Tarskiego kryterium monotoniczności operatora konsekwencji w międzykulturowych badaniach systemów wniskowań

2016 ◽  
pp. 37-50
Author(s):  
Sławomir Sikora
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Logical Consequence ◽  
Consequence Operator ◽  
Philosophical Argumentation ◽  
Argumentation Systems

In this article I refer to the issue of comparative research methodology and methods of philosophical argumentation systems with different cultural areas. In relation to that shown by A. Tarski logical consequence operator, will establish criteria for the comparative analysis of systems inferences different cultural areas of the property based on the operator monotonic consequences.

Meconium Aspiration and Tolazoline

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 124-124
Author(s):  
Gabriel Duc
Keyword(s):  
Newborn Infants ◽  
Antibacterial Prophylaxis ◽  
Meconium Aspiration ◽  
Practical Consequence ◽  
Pharmacologic Agents ◽  
Modern Era

In days gone by, therapists had a limited number of medications (principally, harmless decoctions) to choose from. Under these circumstances, untested proclamations concerning treatment with these medications were of little practical consequence to patients. In the modern era of powerful pharmacologic agents, the situation is different. Unevaluated proposals for therapy (such as antibacterial prophylaxis using sulfisoxazole or chloramphenicol, or oxygen for newborn infants) have had tragic results. Therefore, it is disturbing to find an example of untested advice in a highly respected and widely circulated textbook of pediatrics.

Plato, the Eristics, and the Principle of Non-Contradiction

Apeiron ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian J. Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Philosophical Argumentation

Abstract This paper considers the use that Plato makes of the Principle of Non-Contradiction (PNC) in his engagements with eristic refutations. By examining Plato’s use of the principle in his most detailed engagements with eristic—in the Sophist, the discussion of “agonistic” argumentation in the Theaetetus, and especially the Euthydemus—I aim to show that the pressure exerted on Plato by eristic refutations played a crucial role in his development of the PNC, and that the principle provided him with a much more sophisticated means of demarcating philosophical argumentation from eristic than he is generally thought to have. In particular, I argue that Plato’s qualified formulation of the PNC restricts the class of genuine contradictions in such a way that reveals the contradictions that eristics produce through their refutations to be merely apparent and that Plato consistently appeals to his qualified conception of genuine contradiction in his encounters with eristics in order to demonstrate that their refutations are merely apparent. The paper concludes by suggesting that the conception of genuine contradiction afforded by the PNC did not just provide Plato with a way of demarcating genuine from eristic refutations, but also with an answer to substantive philosophical challenges that eristics raised through their refutations.

Language, ancient philosophy of

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Shields
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Classical Period ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Natural Languages ◽  
Philosophical Inquiry ◽  
Singular Terms ◽  
General Terms ◽  
Philosophical Argumentation ◽  
Semantic Values ◽  
Independent Inquiry

The earliest interest in language during the ancient Greek period was largely instrumental: presumed facts about language and its features were pressed into service for the purpose of philosophical argumentation. Perhaps inevitably, this activity gave way to the analysis of language for its own sake. Claims, for example, about the relation between the semantic values of general terms and the existence of universals invited independent inquiry into the nature of the meanings of those general terms themselves. Language thus became an object of philosophical inquiry in its own right. Accordingly, philosophers at least from the time of Plato conducted inquiries proper to philosophy of language. They investigated: - how words acquire their semantic values; - how proper names and other singular terms refer; - how words combine to form larger semantic units; - the compositional principles necessary for language understanding; - how sentences, statements, or propositions come to be truth-evaluable; and, among later figures of the classical period, - (6) how propositions, as abstract, mind- and language-independent entities, are to be (a) characterized in terms of their constituents, (b) related to minds and the natural languages used to express them, and (c) related to the language-independent world.

Introduction

2005 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Martha Crago
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Structure ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Language Disorders ◽  
Unique Contribution ◽  
Complex Behavior ◽  
Biological Mechanism ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Developmental Language Disorders ◽  
Practical Consequence ◽  
Essential Questions

This Special Issue of Applied Psycholinguistics contains a set of articles on research related to the genetics of developmental language disorders. The guest editors, Mabel Rice and Steven Warren, have assembled cross-disciplinary perspectives on the topic. In doing so, they highlight essential questions concerning the biological mechanism of innateness, the contributions of environment, the measurement of complex behavior, the nature of genetic structure, and the acquisition of language by various groups of young children. The intersection of these questions, one with another, provides a unique contribution of both theoretical and practical consequence for the field of psycholinguistics.

RECENT CHANGES TO AUSTRALIA'S OFFSHORE PETROLEUM REGIME

1986 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 102
Author(s):  
P.C. Reid
Keyword(s):  
Current Level ◽  
The Other ◽  
Adjacent Area ◽  
State Legislation ◽  
Labor Party ◽  
Practical Consequence ◽  
New Form ◽  
Offshore Petroleum

Australia's offshore petroleum legislation is the product of a constitutional compromise enshrined in the Offshore Constitutional Settlement of 1979 between the Commonwealth and the States. Whilst it is current Federal Australian Labor Party policy to dismantle the Offshore Constitutional Settlement and re-assert exclusive Commonwealth jurisdiction from the low-water mark seawards, the Hawke Labor Government has been reluctant to implement this particular policy.A practical consequence of the Offshore Constitutional Settlement for the industry is that many offshore titles are now being split into two separate titles — one under State legislation within the three-mile territorial sea and the other under Commonwealth legislation for the Adjacent Area beyond the territorial sea. The Commonwealth proposal to introduce cash bonus bidding for highly prospective offshore exploration permits after being defeated in the Senate in the first half of 1985 was subsequently passed in November 1985.An APEA proposal for the introduction of a new form of title under the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act (PSLA) to protect currently non-commercial reserves has been adopted by legislation.Following the cash bidding debate the Commonwealth Minister has proposed a new set of guidelines for the award of offshore permits which will contain both a fixed dry-hole commitment plus a discretionary program in the event of technical encouragement.The paper concludes with some recommendations for establishing a more secure and certain system of title under the PSLA and to minimize the current administrative delays being experienced by industry. Finally it urges that the current level of consultation between Government and industry on matters of interest arising under the PSLA should be allowed to continue.

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