Speaking of Qualities

Speaking of Qualities

Indefinites in intensional contexts, such as attitude reports or intensional argument positions, give rise to a well-known ambiguity. Consider (1): On the so-called specific reading, it says that there is a particular object which happens to be a jacket like Malte’s jacket such that Adrian wants to buy that particular object. Adrian need not know that that object is a jacket like Malte’s. On th...

Sensory Qualities, Sensible Qualities, Sensational Qualities

In theorizing about perception, philosophers have often multiplied qualities. To perceptible qualities of external objects, like colors and shapes (‘sensible’ qualities), have been added qualities of experiences (‘sensory’ qualities) or of sense-data (‘sensational’ qualities). Start with sensory qualities. The phrase ‘sensory quality’ is not much in use these days, having lost out to ‘phenomena...

the effect of consciousness raising of sociolinguistic skills on speaking ability of iranian efl learners

abstract the main purpose of this study was to investigate whether there was any significant difference between the speaking achievement of learners who were trained by means of consciousness raising of sociolinguistic skills and that of learners who were trained without the above mentioned task. the participants of this study consist of 60 intermediate level students participating languag...

Theory of Meaning in Commenting Predicative Qualities

The verses of predicative qualities have considered as a notable challenge of the ambiguous verses. Various views have been presented in the field of which the theories of real qualification and hermeneutics may be known as the most famous. Some have expanded the meaning to explain the predicative qualities; the fact of which two views occurred: one is 'putting words for the spirits of meanings...

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