Denoting Offence

On Denoting

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The Drunkenness Offence

every year there are in this country about 80,000 arrests for drunkenness. On that basis it only needs 12^ years for the courts to clock one million drunks through their turnstiles. The astonishing and almost totally unbelievable fact is that until very recently no one seems to have bothered to enquire as to the characteristics of the people wno get drunk in our streets. Society has sat by for ...

On Denoting Descriptions

Polyadic Quantification via Denoting Concepts

The question of the origin of polyadic expressivity is explored and the results are brought to bear on Bertrand Russell’s 1903 theory of denoting concepts, which is the main object of criticism in his 1905 “On Denoting.” It is shown that, appearances to the contrary notwithstanding, the background ontology of the earlier theory of denoting enables the full-blown expressive power of first-order ...

Measuring offence-specific forgiveness in marriage: the Marital Offence-Specific Forgiveness Scale (MOFS).

Three studies involving 328 married couples were conducted to validate the Marital Offence-Specific Forgiveness Scale, a new measure assessing offence-specific forgiveness for marital transgressions. The studies examined the dimensionality; internal consistency; and discriminant, concurrent, and predictive validity of the new measure. The final scale comprised 2 distinct correlated dimensions, ...