The notions of ‘saying’ and ‘what is said’ are fundamental to Paul Grice’s work. This paper argues, however, that the versions of these notions most often attributed to Grice may not be the ones he intended. To support this claim, I examine the original typescripts of Grice’s William James Lectures, and discuss comparisons made by fellow Gricean researcher—Bob Arundale—between the lectures, ori...

In This Issue In This Issue Saying NO to muscular dystrophy ccording to the prevailing model for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) pathogenesis, a lack of dystrophin protein makes muscle cells susceptible to mechanical damage, leading to muscle breakdown. On page 123, Wehling et al. suggest that the major damage in DMD may actually be caused by a secondary consequence of dystrophin loss: destru...

By taking out letters from a word we get a subword. Both continuous sub-words (also called factors or simply subwords) and scattered subwords were extensively studied. In [4] the authors introduced Parikh matrices, structures that contain more information about the words than Parikh vectors, which tell us only the number of di $ffere\tau 1T$ letters building the word. $I_{l1}[5]$ the notion of ...

From a generic set of uncertain pieces of information about the normal course of things and a temporal sequence of reported facts, an intelligent artifact should be able to identify causally related events and distinguish between factors that facilitate or justify the occurrence of events from other facts. In this paper, we propose a model for causality and facilitation ascriptions when the bac...

The difference between perception and cognition seems introspectively obvious in many cases. Perceiving thinking have also been assigned quite different roles, epistemology, theories of reference mental content, philosophy psychology, elsewhere. Yet what is the nature distinction? In way, or ways, do differ? paper reviews recent work on these questions. Four main respects which held to differ a...