Some Truths Are Best Left Unsaid

Chapter Eight Left Unsaid : the Marginalisation of Scientist - Critics in the Media Coverage of Controversial Technologies

Comedy, Context and Unsaid Meaning: A Case Study in Conversational Implicature

Pragmatics moves away from the word level and sentence level study of language towards the study of language in real-world context and at discourse level whereby two or more participants take part in conversation. There are moments when the speaker explicitly says something but the listener may have other interpretations and inferences from their statements. The aim of this study was to demonst...

Lynch ’ s Metaphysical Pluralism

Pluralism, according to Michael P. Lynch, is the thesis that there are or can be more than one true story of the world; there can be incompatible but equally acceptable accounts of some subject matter.’ The opposite view, absolutism, states that there can be only one true story about how the world is. In our ordinary lives both theses have intuitive pull. Most of us are ready to say that there ...

A Lesson for Electrocardiography ? Update

Update placed by new imaging methods in many applications. And in some applications, ECG is even considered obsolete, eg, in the diagnostics of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH). The rational way to increase the interest of cardiolo-gists, to attract young scientists, and to increase the value of ECG, is to analyze and consequently to reduce its limitations. This means, first, to reevaluate th...

A Defense of Contingent Logical Truths∗

A formula is a contingent logical truth when it is true in every model M but, for some model M , false at some world of M . We argue that there are such truths, given the logic of actuality. Our argument turns on defending Tarski’s definition of truth and logical truth, extended so as to apply to modal languages with an actuality operator. We argue that this extension is the philosophically pro...