scholarly journals Negative existentials

Pragmatics ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 599-616
Author(s):  
Zoltán Vecsey
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
Truth Conditional ◽  
Negative Existentials ◽  
Static Semantic ◽  
Alternative Theories

Abstract Negative existentials containing empty NPs are understood colloquially as representing how things stand in the world. Moreover, utterances of such sentences seem to express propositions or thoughts that are informative and true. Standard static semantic theories cannot provide a straightforward account of these intuitive phenomena. In such frameworks, sentences with empty NPs are considered as being unable to express truth-evaluable contents. This paper investigates two alternative theories of negative existentials. A common feature of these theories is that they adopt a dynamic approach to meaning. I will argue that neither of these alternatives provides a reassuring solution to the apparent truth-conditional problem generated by the utterances of negative existentials.

scholarly journals The Evolution of the Psychodynamic Approach and System

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Russell Fulmer
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Dynamic Theory ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Psychodynamic Therapy ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Dynamic Approach ◽  
Psychodynamic Approach ◽  
The World

AbstractPsychodynamic theory and practice has evolved from its psychoanalytic roots. The modern psychodynamic approach is among the most inclusive and versatile schools of thought available to therapists. With both cross-cultural application and a growing evidence base, psychodynamic therapy is practiced in many countries and cultures around the world. The dynamic approach is a system that touches on human development, personality, mental disorders, and of course, therapy. This article presents an overview of contemporary dynamic theory, its underlying philosophy, and its main objectives. 

Content in Context

2021 ◽  
pp. 85-94
Author(s):  
Una Stojnić
Keyword(s):  
Propositional Content ◽  
The World ◽  
Truth Conditional ◽  
Current Proposal

On the traditional picture, sentences express content relative to context. This content then is, or determines, truth-conditional, propositional content, which is what we assert and believe, and which can guide our action. If I have a thought about the world, and I want to convey it to you, I should utter a sentence which, in this context, expresses that thought. You can then understand it, and come to believe it, and it might guide your action. But on the current proposal the context is constantly changing, even mid-utterance, and utterances are interpreted as instructions to update the context. What of our simple account of thought, communication, and action? This chapter shows our dynamic account still delivers propositional content. While utterances are semantically assigned dynamic meaning, this meaning serves as an instruction to build ordinary propositional content.

Syllables and morpheme integrity in Kinande reduplication

Phonology ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ngessimo Mutaka ◽  
Larry M. Hyman
Keyword(s):  
Major Part ◽  
African Continent ◽  
Linguistic Group ◽  
Bantu Language ◽  
Testing Ground ◽  
The World ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Innovative Work ◽  
Alternative Theories

Within the expanding framework of non-linear morphology, no wordformation process has sparked more interest than reduplication. Once relegated to a secondary status with a few examples, reduplication has now arrived centre stage as a testing ground for alternative theories of multitiered morphology and phonology. The innovative work of McCarthy (1981) and Marantz (1982) on this subject has laid the groundwork for subsequent formal treatments of reduplication, including Levin (1983), Broselow & McCarthy (1984), Clements (1985), Odden & Odden (1985), Schlindwein (1986, 1988), McCarthy & Prince (forthcoming), Kiparsky (1986), Mester (1986) and Steriade (1988), among others. These varying accounts of reduplication have been tested against a large and growing body of data from most parts of the world. Surprising to us, however, since every Bantu language we are familiar with has one or more reduplicative processes, relatively little attention has been focused on this rather large linguistic group of several hundred languages coverin a major part of the African continent.

scholarly journals Dynamic Representation of Barriers for Adopting Building Information Modelling in Malaysian Tertiary Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 24-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheila Belayutham ◽  
Nadia Safura Zabidin ◽  
Che Khairil Izam Che Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Causal Loop Diagram ◽  
Dynamic Approach ◽  
Building Information Modelling ◽  
Dynamic Representation ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
Building Information ◽  
Holistic Representation

Building Information Modelling (BIM) is deemed to shape the future of the construction sector across the world. At present, the lack of BIM in tertiary education has been the rising concern around the world as the demand for BIM talent increases. The current landscape suggests that few pedagogic researches have been undertaken to advance BIM education, particularly in Malaysia. BIM implementation could only be possible by identifying the potential barriers, which is a basic pre-requisite for successful adoption of BIM. Unfortunately, previous studies on the barriers of BIM adoption have often based on theoretical constructs, which are deterministic in nature. The methodology used could not portray a conclusive correlation of causal relations among the variables, creating difficulty in developing holistic and workable solutions. Therefore, this study aims to develop a methodology that provides a dynamic representation of the barriers in implementing BIM in tertiary education. The methodology combines both the deterministic (feedback from questionnaire survey) and dynamic approach (causal loop diagram). Data was first collected and analysed through a questionnaire survey administered among lecturers from selected Malaysian universities. Following that, a dynamic systems approach (causal loop diagram) was used to demonstrate the complex nature and interrelationship of the barriers for a more holistic representation. Results from the deterministic analysis has suggested barriers that relate to technology, while findings from the dynamics has identified the people aspect as the core barrier for BIM adoption. This study has contributed in establishing a methodology that integrates the dynamic approach with the deterministic data towards providing a more holistic representation of a system that further enables the identification of holistic solutions that would address the core barriers inhibiting the implementation of BIM education, particularly at Malaysian Universities.

scholarly journals Felicity Conditions of the Speech Acts in Banyumasan Daily Conversation

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 700
Author(s):  
Chusni Hadiati
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Propositional Content ◽  
Unique Characteristic ◽  
Essential Condition ◽  
Conditional Sentence ◽  
The World ◽  
Felicity Condition ◽  
Truth Conditional ◽  
Lexical Items

A truth conditional sentence requires a sentence to fit into the world; however, it cannot be applied pragmatically in a daily conversation, consequently, non-truth conditional sentence is applied. In pragmatics filed, an utterance needs to be felicitous, thus it has to meet the felicity condition. Felicity condition underlies that in order to be felicitous an utterance must meet the felicity condition that includes preparatory condition, propositional content, sincerity condition, and essential condition. By using felicity condition, speakers can mean what they say and say what they mean. Searle has only postulated the felicity condition for directive and commisives, thus this article attempts to complete the felicity conditions of another three speech acts. The utterances are taken from Banyumas dialect or Banyumasan; it is a dialect of standard Javanese spoken along Serayu River. It has unique characteristic due to its phonological and lexical items compared to Standard Javanese spoken in Yogyakarta and Surakarta. This article describes the felicity condition of the speech acts found in Banyumasan daily conversation which is conducted by using descriptive analysis. The finding of this research shows that felicity conditions of Banyumasan are realized into representative, directives, commisives, expressive, and declarations.

scholarly journals The classical cosmopolitanian idea: Arguments for the world government

2008 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-189
Author(s):  
Dusko Prelevic
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
International Relations ◽  
International Politics ◽  
The Other ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
World Government ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
Decent Peoples ◽  
Alternative Theories

The Cosmopolitan idea of the World Government is quite rarely proposed in theory of international relations. Kant already claimed that this idea oscillates between anarchy and brute despotism. This is the reason why he described this standpoint as naive. The author tries to show that alternative theories, such as realism, Kantian and Rawlsian versions of statism and the conception of multilayered scheme of sovereignty, lead to more serious problems. The first one is rejected for the reason of the 'prisoner's dilemma' it implies. It is also argued that the Kantian version of statism is either inconsistent, or allows for totalitarian states if they have peaceful international politics. Many liberals reject Rawls's position because of his tolerant attitude towards 'decent peoples'. On the other hand, the conception of multilayered scheme of sovereignty is dismissed because of the non-existence of a unified decision-making procedure in global politics. At the end of the paper, the author defends Classical Cosmopolitanism theory from Kant's objections and indicates the main obstacles to its realization.

scholarly journals Can Fictional Superhuman Agents have Mental States?

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 425-448
Author(s):  
Gabriel Levy
Keyword(s):  
Propositional Attitudes ◽  
Mental States ◽  
The World ◽  
Truth Conditional ◽  
Legal Fictions ◽  
As If

AbstractAccording to Deborah Tollefsen, from the analytic perspective called “interpretivism”, there is a reasonable way in which groups can be said to have mental states. She bases her argument on the every-day use of language, where people speak as if groups have states such as intentions, desires and wishes. Such propositional attitudes form the basis of any account of truth-conditional semantics, the rules by which people grasp the conditions under which an utterance is true. If groups (abstract units of people) have mental states, perhaps superhuman agents have them too. One argument that may contradict this premise is one that says that, whereas groups exist, superhuman agents do not. However, if groups exist on the basis of normative narratives about them and the institutionalized actions they carry out in the world, the same can be said for superhuman agents. They are like legal fictions: fictional but real. Superhuman agents are fictional and real in a similar sense as groups.1

Introduction

Aboutness ◽  
2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Yablo
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Independent Factor ◽  
Truth Conditions ◽  
The World ◽  
Truth Conditional ◽  
Truth Value ◽  
In Fire ◽  
Ways Of Being

This introductory chapter provides an overview of the book's main themes. This book makes subject matter an independent factor in meaning, constrained but not determined by truth-conditions. A sentence's meaning is to do with its truth-value in various possible scenarios, and the factors responsible for that truth-value. No new machinery is required to accommodate this. The proposition that S is made up of the scenarios where S is true; S's reasons for, or ways of, being true are just additional propositions. When Frost writes, The world will end in fire or in ice, the truth-conditional meaning of his statement is an undifferentiated set of scenarios. Its “enhanced” meaning is the same set, subdivided into fiery-end worlds and icy-end worlds.

scholarly journals Enhancing Security in Smart Cities using Dynamic Multipath Algorithm

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 477-482
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Networks ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Variable Number ◽  
Dynamic Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
Exchange Information ◽  
Multiple Paths ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Wireless Mobile

The world of today is an ultimate connected world, where all types of physical devices and virtual objects can communicate in order to exchange information or provide services. Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the leading areas that make this worldwide connection possible, by integrating and enabling different solutions and communication technologies. Wireless mobile networks are increasing very fast and giving more perspectives in the telecommunication field. Nevertheless, some problems are still facing this development. The most important and mandatory issue, among them, is the security of the network. In this paper, we will introduce some related works about security concept for mobile networks and we present our solution that provides a new dynamic approach to find a variable number of multiple paths according to the neighborhood, the density and to the mobility of nodes in the network. In order to evaluate the impact of our solution on network performances, we implement our algorithm on one of the most known multipath protocols (MP-OLSR).

scholarly journals Human Skills & the AI COVID Challenge

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naeema Pasha
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Dynamic Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
Human Skills ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Skill Building ◽  
High Uncertainty

This chapter examines the impact of both the COVID-19 pandemic and AI on the world of work. Both have created further uncertainty and ambiguity in the labour market landscape. In dealing with high uncertainty, developing both organisational and adaptability skillsets is critical to success, and a dynamic approach may be suitable to enhance skill-building.

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