Why Cognitive Semantics Says Meaning Is Conceptualization

Why Aristotle Says There is No Time Without Change

Blending and Coded Meaning: Literal and Figurative Meaning in Cognitive Semantics

In this article, we examine the relationship between literal and figurative meanings in view of mental spaces and conceptual blending theory as developed by Fauconnier & Turner (2002). Beginning with a brief introduction to the theory, we proceed by analyzing examples of metaphor, fictive motion, and virtual change to reveal various processes of meaning construction at work in a range of exampl...

Meaning, Interpretation and Semantics

ion that is supposed to be characteristic for every empirical science. Physics studies movement on a frictionless plane, or the properties of a perfect vacuum; analogously, semantics deals with meaning and its properties on an equally abstract, yet empirical level. Or so it is assumed. But whereas physics, abstraction not withstanding, produces empirically testable predictions, it is far from c...

Why Believe That There Is a God?

This article presents an argument for the existence of God, showing that the evident phenomena are best explained by supposing that a God causes them. The argument is based on the inductive force of four very evident general phenomena: that there is a physical Universe; that it is governed by very simple natural laws; that those laws are such as to lead to the existence of human bodies; and tha...

Reclaiming Meaning in IS Theory: Theory for Why, not What

This paper presents an alternative perspective on theory in Information Systems (IS). We argue that the orthodox view of theory as modelistic representation does not fulfil the criteria for ideal theory when applied to IS viewed as a social sciences. By looking to what theory does rather than what theory is, we open the possibility for an alternative kind of theory that makes the human world co...