Loss, Re-figuration and Death in Raoul de Cambrai

De re and De dicto Modality in Islamic Traditional Logic

de re and de dicto modality in islamic traditional logic

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De Re and De Se

1. De re thought and token-reflexivity There is an intuitive contrast between descriptive thoughts about an object (e.g. the thought that the strongest man in the world can lift 150 kilos) and 'nondescriptive' or 'de re' thoughts about an object (e.g. the thought that that man is drunk). But it is not easy to make the contrast explicit without going stipulative. The distinction between de re th...

Figuration and grammaticalization

There is broad agreement among evolutionary linguists that the emergence of human language, as opposed to other primate communication systems, is characterised by two key phenomena: the use of symbols, and the use of grammatical structure (Tomasello 2003). In this paper, we show that these two defining aspects of language actually emerge from the same set of underlying cognitive mechanisms with...

Remembering Raoul Bott

Figure 1. Raoul Bott in 2002. Raoul Bott passed away on December 20, 2005. Over a five-decade career he made many profound and fundamental contributions to geometry and topology. This is the second part of a two-part article in the Notices to commemorate his life and work. The first part was an authorized biography, “The life and works of Raoul Bott” [4], which he read and approved a few years ...