Two English Hearsay Heresies

Naturalizing Dasein and other (Alleged) Heresies

To my mind, being wrong is nowhere near as disheartening as being boring, so I am encouraged by the fact that, in the four chapters immediately preceding this one, four thinkers for whom I have nothing but the utmost intellectual respect have found my ongoing project to articulate the philosophical groundwork for a genuinely Heideggerian cognitive science interesting enough that they have taken...

The two be's of English

This  qualitative  study  investigates  the  uses  of  be  in  Contemporary  English.  Based  on  this  study, one  easy  claim  and  one  more  difficult  claim  are  proposed.  The  easy  claim  is  that  the  traditional distinction between be as a lexical verb and be as an auxiliary is faulty. In particular, 'copular-be', traditionally considered to be a lexical verb, is in fact a prototypi...

Knowledge Maintenance Heresies: Meta-Knowledge Complicates KM

The role of a discussion paper is to provoke discussion. Hence, my comments will be heretical rather than theoretical. For the theory, see [19]. Today I want to say two things. Firstly, the knowledge maintenance (KM) problem is our next big challenge. A common method for tackling the KM problem is to use some type of meta-knowledge to represent expected/unexpected or good/bad knowledge. This me...

English Has Two Copulas

Can a witness report hearsay evidence unintentionally

When eyewitnesses are exposed to misinformation about an event from a co-witness, they often incorporate this misinformation in their recall of the event. The current research aimed to investigate whether this memory conformity phenomenon is due to change in the witness‟s memory for the event, or to social pressures to conform to the co-witness‟s account. Participants were shown a crime video a...