There Is No Pure Empirical Reasoning

There is no lexicon!

0. Introduction Within generative linguistics, underlying representations have been a sine qua non. Such representations have been thought to encode what is unpredictable or not governed by rules. Within Optimality Theory (henceforth OT), even though the rules are virtually gone, this view continues. The function GEN and EVAL pair an underlying representation with an optimal output. I argue aga...

There are no pure relational width 2 constraint satisfaction problems

In this note, we show that every constraint satisfaction problem that has relational width 2 has also relational width 1. This is achieved by means of an obstruction-like characterization of relational width which we believe to be of independent interest.

There is no Parkinson disease.

The term Parkinson disease defines a specific clinical condition characterized by a typical history and characteristic signs. This review examines the historical evolution of the concept of Parkinson disease and how the misunderstanding of Parkinson disease may be hindering clinical research trials. It is proposed that this syndrome be called Parkinson diseases or parkinsonism type 1 through in...

There Is No Dividing Line

Where there is no overlap, there is a gap.