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To what degree can we characterise delusions of reference as the manifestation of a more general semiotic dysfunction which includes non-linguistic occurrences (the apprehension of...
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There's a burgeoning literature on the phenomenal aspects of schizophrenia, but I can't find any similar work being done on delusional disorder. While - apparently - there are definite...
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My question follows in part from reflections on Quine's remarks, in part from a rereading of the Investigations, and in part from bloody-mindedness.
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A perdurant continuant is a temporally extended entity of which the temporal parts are spatial entities (continuants), down to the theoretical limit of spatial points; a perdurant occurrent is a...
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I've set this group up in order to give a more public forum to some exchanges with Tristan Vanrullen on the very different understandings of "ontology" in philosophy, information science, and...
07 December 2010 2,671 4 View
For those entirely unfamiliar with the field, there's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mereology For those who seek something more substantial, there Varzi's entry at Stanford:...
07 December 2010 9,612 2 View
mereology = meronomy = meronymy This, if one listens to the biologists and the computer scientists, seems to be received wisdom. For my money, it's a misevaluation of the ontological scope of...
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Je viens de poster qqs réflexions sur les différentes notions de "savoir"... very much a "work in progress", so forgive me for any solecisms)
28 July 2010 4,425 2 View
J'ai créé ce thème pour traiter toute question concernant les raisons, les objectifs, les modes de travail et (qui sait !) les livrables du groupe. Je me permets donc de citer les échanges en...
11 May 2010 7,850 2 View
Premières réflexions sur la "philosophie de l'entreprise" (1) Quand on examine comment l'entreprise française définit ses propres attentes face à la transformation économique et sociale, les...
09 May 2010 266 7 View
The Master of Königsberg famously differentiated between what is given in perception by the senses (the "phenomenon") and the thing-in-itself, the Ding an sich (the "noumenon") – cf....
08 January 2010 7,171 22 View
...and how does it fit in with such notions as "existence"? For the religious believer, the object of their belief is "real". For certain scientific realists, elementary particles are 'real'...
13 December 2009 7,608 54 View
In the thread on "propositions" on the philosophy group site I remarked that if grammar allows illimitable recombination, it is metaphysically possible to generate an infinite number of sentences...
19 November 2009 1,338 89 View
EVERYTHING we do here is dependent on language; this is the sine qua non of all philosophy. In the specific context of a site dedicated to scientific research, what we can offer as philosophers...
08 October 2009 9,264 93 View
Is it just me, or should we not consider the "four element" model (earth, water, air, fire) as corresponding to the three phases of matter apparent to our unaided observation (solid, liquid, gas)...
28 May 2009 5,178 9 View
What is, in your opinion, "natural language", and what are its specificities when compared with artificial or formal languages?
24 December 2008 3,977 6 View
