The principle of Reformed intertextual interpretation

Ambiguity and the Principle of Idiosyncratic Interpretation

This paper discusses logics whose premisses and/or conclusions can contain ambiguous material. Two diierent kinds of applications are sketched for these logics. First, the paper discusses how logics with ambiguous expressions can shed light on the way in which human hearers or readers understand certain`paradoxical' logical arguments, in which crucial use is made of ambiguous material. Second, ...

Radical Interpretation and the Permutation Principle *

Davidson has argued1 that there is no fact of the matter as to what any speaker's words refer to because, even holding truth conditions fixed, a radical interpreter will always be able to come up with many equally good interpretations of the interpretee’s language. This conclusion, which Davidson (following Quine) refers to as the "inscrutability of reference", has caused many to reject the rad...

The Reformed Public House

Has the Carlisle scheme of State ownership and control, which Mr. Dering advocates, resulted in a greater decrease in drunkenness than is seen in places where licensed premises are still privately owned ? The evidence does not support such a contention. Increased sobriety is, one is glad to know, practically universal, but statistics indicate that Carlisle shows no greater increase than the gen...

An intertextual study of the role of

Proving the influence of the Chinese pictorial tradition on Iranian art after the rule of the Mongol patriarchs has become an undeniable theory among researchers. The existence of dragons, ivy and ivy forms have been attributed to the Chinese; But this article adopted a different approach. Based on the belief that this world is the world of texts, he intends to read a sub-text of the large text...

The Reformed Public House