Dr. Benacerraf describes his experience in training immunologists for a period of over 30 years. He then analyzes the circumstances in which selected discoveries were made in his laboratory and the events and reasoning that led to these findings. The following topics are discussed: The phagocytic activity of the reticulo-endothelial system. The pathogenesis of immune complex diseases. The impac...

In a series of recent papers, John MacFarlane (2003, 2005a, 2005b) has formulated a version of truth-relativism, and argued for its application in some cases—future contingents, knowledge attributions and epistemic modals among them. Mark Richard (2004) also defends a version of relativism, which he applies to vagueness-inducing features of the semantics of gradable adjectives; Richard thinks t...

16 guitar intro w/ rhythm and lead guitars Bm /Gb /D#m /Gb(nonbar chords) Verse 1 Bm Gb I believe you're the One, I believe ya' D#m Gb Your hand was there to save me when my ship was goin' down Bm Gb You were there to dust me off and recieve me D#m Gb I'm not the same I bless your Name, I'm so glad that I'm found Bm Gb I hear your Word; I feel your love Lord, I need ya D#m Gb No man or no woman...

I Introduction As our data will show, negative existential sentences containing so-called empty names evoke the same strong semantic intuitions in ordinary speakers and philosophers alike.

In his logic of conversation, Paul Grice made an important distinction between two kinds of act that speakers may perform when uttering a sentence and, correspondingly, two kinds or levels of speaker meaning: (i) saying, hence what is said, and (ii) implicating, hence what is implicated (implicature) (Grice 1975). The distinction between what is said and what is implicated can be seen as one in...