The essay discusses the defense of religious tolerance presented in Johann Crell’s treatise On Freedom Conscience, pointing to tension between Christian exclusivism on one hand and practicalism rationalism other inherent views. This can be resolved by adopting theistic minimalism or extreme practicalism.

As we understand it, semantic minimalism is the view that: (i) an utterance u of a (declarative) sentence S expresses a proposition p whose constituents must all be represented by elements of S; (ii) the structure of p reflects the logical form of S,1 and (iii) if S does not contain indexical expressions, u expresses p in a FN:1 context-independent way. This last claim can be illustrated in con...

Reductive art is a term to describe an artistic style or an aesthetic, rather than an art movement. It is stripping down as a new way of seeing. Movements and other terms that are sometimes associated with reductive art include abstract art, minimalism, ABC art, anti-illusionism, cool art, and rejective art. Eric Kandel's fifth book focuses on reductionism as the principle guiding an ongoing di...

In a novel way, modern architecture has great influence and impact on present-day contemporary architecture. Since the late 1980s, ?minimalism in been taken into consideration. Less is more emphasized, which adheres to philosophy of filling space with necessary items clearing unneeded clutter allow room for significant materials objects. With simple shapes clear lines, neutral color scheme, pla...

In his contribution to this volume, Shaun Gallagher casts a sharply focussed critical eye over positions which claim that action is to be explained, in part, by appeal to minimal representations. One of the positions to come under fire in this way is a view that I developed in my book Reconstructing the Cognitive World (Wheeler, 2005). In this brief response I shall try to defend my own brand o...

Such a process is at first sight problematic for the Minimalist program (Chomsky 1992) where optional operations are not countenanced. Under this program, syntactic operations are forced by morphological checking requirements. Assume that in (2) the subject has moved from a position corresponding to its position in (1). Then Minimalism predicts that (2) is well formed only if the subject has mo...

In this paper I consider the possibility that language is more strongly grounded in sensorimotor cognition than is normally assumed—a scenario which would be providential for language evolution theorists. I argue that the syntactic theory most compatible with this scenario, perhaps surprisingly, is generative grammar. I suggest that there may be a way of interpreting the syntactic structures po...