Frege on the Psychological Signiicance of Deenitions

Philosophical Studies Special Issue on Definitions Frege on the Psychological Signiicance of Deenitions

A Study of Frege’s Influence on A. J. Ayer’s Theory of Emotivism

No doubt, Gottlob Frege and A. J. Ayer are considered to be among the most prominent contemporary philosophers. Insofar as one of them has revolutionized the linguistic domain while the other has influenced the domain of ethics in a diametrical fashion. Ayer’s theory of emotivism is regarded as one of the most controversial moral theories in the past century. We believe that Frege, as a linguis...

Universal distributions and time - boundedKolmogorov

The equivalence of universal measure, a priori probability and the negative exponential of Kolmogorov complexity is a well known result with signiicance both to the theory of Kolmogorov complexity and many of its applications. In this paper we consider deenitions for the time-bounded setting where similar equivalences hold. Unlike the unbounded case, time-bounded universal distributions give ri...

Toward a Taxonomy of Logical Document Structures

The automated discovery of logical structure in text documents is an important problem that has recently received a good deal of attention; it can enable the creation of exible and sophisticated document manipulation tools that will greatly increase the impact of electronic documents. This paper addresses aspects of the nature of the logical structures to be found, in order to develop categorie...

Literature, Logic and the Liberating Word: the Elucidation of Confusion in Henry James

The literary style of henry James has attracted the attention of a number of leading analytic philosophers who are drawn to make claims for the philosophical signiicance of works of literature. Many of these philosophical commentators share a common approach: namely, they locate the philosophical center of gravity of James’s style in a philosophical view that his way of writing is understood to...