AN ESSENTIALLY SYNTACTIC AND FORMAL THEORY IS STILL POSSIBLE

?Logic and Formal Ontology: Is the Final Formal Ontology Possible

Musa Akrami AbstractMany philosophers and logicians have contemplated the relationship between ontology and logic. The author of this paper, working within a Bolzanoan-Husserlian tradition of studying both ontology and logic, considers ontology as the science of the most general features of beings and the most general relations among them. He considers logic as the science concernin...

Syntactic Theory A Formal Introduction

A. Sag and Thomas Wasow, published by CSLI Publications. ©2001 by CSLI Publications. All rights reserved. This text may be used and shared in accordance with the fair-use provisions of U.S. copyright law, and it may be archived and redistributed in electronic form, provided that this entire notice, including copyright information, is carried and provided that CSLI Publications is notified and n...

Review of: Syntactic Theory: A formal introduction

Finding an appropriate textbook for an introductory course on syntactic theory has become difficult. Since most attempt to portray a more or less current version of generative transforma-tional theory (TG), they tend to become obsolete fairly rapidly and the trace-per-morpheme average in phrase structure representations rises dramatically as a function of up-to-dateness. Given that the trace-he...

Is Design Theory Possible?

Because design is a practice, a theory of design is not possible in the same sense as a theory of chemistry is. Socio-psychological theories of what designers do are not design theories. Knowledge of how to design cannot be reduced to theory, for reasons that grow out of the philosophy of science. But a practice like design can be supported or aided by theories. Most of these are from other sci...

THE SEVEN PARADOXES OF CAPITALISM..... .....Or is a theory of modern economies still possible?