On Thetic Judgment (1910)

Thetic Judgment from the Wissenschaftslehre to Brentano

It is not usual to think of Fichte as a logician, nor indeed to think of him as leaving a legacy that shaped the subsequent history of symbolic logic. But I argue here that there is such a legacy, and that Fichte formulated an agenda in formal logic that his students (and their students in turn) used to spark a logical revolution. That revolution arguably reached its culmination in the logical ...

Revisiting the Thetic/Categorical Distinction in Japanese

In this study, I propose a refinement of Kuroda’s (1972, 1990) claim that the categorical and thetic judgments are realized syntactically in Japanese. Succinctly put, Kuroda argues that sentences with the topic marker wa represent categorical judgments whereas those with the nominative marker ga represent thetic judgments. In the present study, I demonstrate that wa-sentences do not uniformly r...

Some re ections on the conversion of theTIC lexicon into

The Traac Information Collator (TIC) 1 (Allport, 1988, 1989) is a prototype system which takes verbatim police reports of traac incidents, interprets them, builds a picture of what is happening on the roads and broadcasts appropriate messages automatically to motorists where necessary. Cahill and Evans (1990) described the process of converting the main TIC lexicon (a lexicon of around 1000 wor...

Kant on the Rationality of Moral Judgment

Walter Wunderlich ( 1910 – 1998 )

Walter Wunderlich was one of the most influential Austrian kinematicians in the 20th century. He wrote more than 200 scientific papers in the fields of mathematics, geometry and kinematics. Because of his influence, kinematic geometry is still an important subject in the curricula of geometry teachers’ education in Austria.