The subject matter of this work covers the issues or problems listed below:Ø problem ontological status language signs and a more general philosophical connected with it:Ø What is as system signs, which – on one hand serves to:1) represent our knowledge about reality being recognized, and, other to: 2) a. explore better cognize discover it, b. describe it in an adequate manner, c. enable users ...

A brief review of the historical relation between logic and ontology and of the opposition between the views of logic as language and logic as calculus is given. We argue that predication is more fundamental than membership and that different theories of predication are based on different theories of universals, the three most important being nominalism, conceptualism, and realism. These theori...

terms, but merely an explanation of my reaction to those objections [to the use of such terms] and of my impression that no sufficiently compelling reasons for them were given. Nevertheless, I thought that these objections deserved to be given careful and serious attention. This I did in my article “Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology”.39 Notice that Carnap denied that the objections his empiri...

In this paper, I present a polar concept argument for the existence of abstract objects. After recalling the fundamentals concerning the debate about the existence of abstracta, I present in a detailed way the argument for the existence of abstracta. I offer two different variations of the argument: one, deductive and the other, inductive. The argument rests primarily on the fact that our unive...

Parsimony arguments are advanced in both science and philosophy. How are they related? This question is a test case for Naturalismp, which is the thesis that philosophical theories and scientific theories should be evaluated by the same criteria. In this paper, I describe the justifications that attach to two types of parsimony argument in science. In the first, parsimony is a surrogate for lik...

This essay argues against the view—frequently put forward by conservatives themselves—that conservatism cannot be analyzed as a coherent political ideology. It then proposes a multidimensional approach to understanding conservatism, defining (and defending a particular interpretation of) four dimensions which are termed sociological, methodological, dispositional and philosophical. It is argued...

Let me start by thanking Professors Santorio and Szabo for their insightful comments careful readings of Conjoining Meanings (CM). They highlight the main theses describe project in helpful ways.1 So instead multiplying summaries, let say a little about what motivated project. Chomsky was influential. But teaching truth-theoretic semantics, many years, really convinced need different conception...

BACKGROUND: For too many years the practice of systematics has been impeded by profound disagreements about the very foundations of this discipline, that is to say the type of information that should or should not be incorporated into a proper classification of life. Two main schools of systematics, both recognizing evolution, oppose each other: cladism states that the classification should onl...

In this paper I offer a new interpretation of the development of Durkheim’s thought. Rather than linear progress, Durkheim’s scientific career presented a distinctive circularity. Although always interested in a ’structural’ theory, from the beginning of his work Durkheim sought a structural theory which would decisively differ from the materialist emphasis on coercion. In the first part of his...

In an article entitled ‘Dworkin’s Fallacy, Or What the Philosophy of Language Can’t Teach Us about the Law’, I argued that in Law’s Empire Ronald Dworkin misderived his interpretive theory of law from an implicit interpretive theory of meaning, thereby committing ‘Dworkin’s fallacy’. In his recent book, Justice in Robes, Dworkin denies that he committed the fallacy. As evidence he points to the...