Unended Reflections on Family Resemblance and Predicates Linguistic Migration

On 'Family Resemblances' with Fuzzy Sets

This paper takes into account the Wittgenstein’s idea on family resemblances as a particular crisp relation between some fuzzy sets, that is, between some predicates representable from its use. It is shown that all uses of the same predicate actually do have family resemblance, that some pairs of predicates cannot, and a numerical degree of family resemblance is introduced. Keywords— Degree of ...

Philosophical Reflections in Transcendental Modernism and Religious Politics

The current article believes that the intrinsic interdependence of modernity, science and secularism is an ideological non-universal interdependence but a hegemonic discourse. This kind of explanation and consideration is built upon a collection of ontological, epistemological, anthropological, methodological and evaluative sources. Based on two laws of "interchangeability of existence and scie...

Soheili. A. Reflections on Persian Grammar: Developments in Persian Linguistic Scholarship I. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars publishing, 2017. 283 pp. ISBN: 1-4438-5070-5

Migration, Ethnocentrism and Linguistic Diversity Effect in the Development of the Takestan city

Migration is among important issues that less developed and developing countries have confirmed during the recent five decades. This issues in Iran has attraced a lot of researcher and planner views. Irregular and increasing migrations have created a lot of consequences for cities and the target settlements, social effects of migration on the cities is among such consequence these, in this proj...

Biological adaptations for functional features of language in the face of cultural evolution.

Although there may be no true language universals, it is nonetheless possible to discern several family resemblance patterns across the languages of the world. Recent work on the cultural evolution of language indicates the source of these patterns is unlikely to be an innate universal grammar evolved through biological adaptations for arbitrary linguistic features. Instead, it has been suggest...