Mon 25 May, 2009 02:05 pm - Hi
In this thread I'm not going to pick up any problem but ask you for a help. I'm going [alone] into causal descriptivism. The names associated with that are Jerrold Kath, Frederic... (view)
Mon 4 May, 2009 01:58 pm - Fido
I had written a reply but because of server's failure I lost it. I'll write it down again, but later. Now I tell you what was the point: I can't unferstand you, don't know... (view)
Fri 1 May, 2009 11:19 am - Fido
Of course I could take a language with lock, stock and barell but then I should stop my investigation. What I've understood from your question is that you don't know what scientific... (view)
Thu 30 Apr, 2009 09:28 am - [quote=Fido]If it is necessary to understand language to communicate I am in trouble...I don't understand women either... I do understand dogs...If it smells good, it is good...[/quote]
Fido,... (view)
Wed 29 Apr, 2009 12:58 pm - I hope this question will meet wider reaction then any of my previous one. [If I'm obscure or unclear in my questions tell me, I'll try to clarify them]
There are there kinds of singular... (view)
Wed 15 Apr, 2009 10:45 am - Hi
Type/token is a very popular distinction. Is it correct to talk about proper name's type and token. What is name's type and how to tell the difference between two tokens of a given... (view)
Wed 15 Apr, 2009 10:37 am - Hi Tana, I'll do my best to answer your questions.
1. A babtism has two forms:
a) while the object is present babtims consist of a pointing [widely understood] gesture, and certaint... (view)
Fri 6 Feb, 2009 05:13 pm - Logic used to deal with The Truth and The Fals [more or less I agree with Frege at that point]. But PLEASE and THANK YOU are kind of performative expressions. I don't know much about that... (view)
Wed 4 Feb, 2009 01:42 pm - Hi
I'm still working with Evans' 'The Causal Theory of Names'. It's rather difficult text. That's why I have another question.
Donnellan [and Kripke as well]... (view)
Tue 27 Jan, 2009 04:49 am - Hi
There is one thing I can't get in Kripke's picture of reference-preserving chains. It's said that one can trace back a chain in order to find out what a given name denotes.
So if... (view)
