the article presents explanation and analysis of plotinus’ abstraction theology. in this theology he tries to get negative knowledge of the god. the meaning of the negation is neither of pure negation or privation but it is based on abstraction which purifies and abstracts one concept from else to attain the exact and true meaning of it. accordingly, this method of theology is the same as the r...

We challenge the predominant view of the English dative alternation, which takes all alternating verbs to have two meanings: a caused possession meaning realized by the double object variant and a caused motion meaning realized by the to variant. Instead, we argue that verbs like give and sell only have a caused possession meaning, while verbs like throw and send have both caused motion and cau...

What makes a proposition true or false has traditionally played an essential role in philosophical and linguistic theories of meaning. A comprehensive neurobiological theory of language must ultimately be able to explain the combined contributions of real-world truth-value and discourse context to sentence meaning. This fMRI study investigated the neural circuits that are sensitive to the propo...

Public as a whole have different abilities in interpretation on the text media. Therefore, each issue necessary documentary media texts especially true delivery so as not to cause confusion in the interpretation of the message. In line with the rapid pace of information technology to make all information more easily accessible lead the audience (especially teenagers) became more confused in mak...

The notions of logical truth, analytic truth, and necessary truth are extremely important in philosophy. A logically true sentence remains true no matter what the interpretation of the nonlogical constants. An analytically true sentence is true in virtue of the meanings of its words. Necessarily true sentences are true in all possible worlds. The concepts involved in these definitions are centr...

In the study of the meaning of natural language expressions, the sentence level provides a natural entry point. Its relevance depends, of course, on the focus we want to put on meaning: as related to thought, to communication, to truth, etc. In this paper, we concentrate on the model theoretic view of meaning, in particular via first-order logic representation. This view is commonly referred to...

phenomenon of understanding the meaning of a text is highly taken into consideration and viewed from different perspectives nowadays. hermeneutics is among those detailed discussions related to this field. among discussions related to the phenomenon of understanding and its explanation as well as interpretation is ethics of them: whether or not man has any responsibility to the text he is tryin...

This paper is a sympathetic critique of the argument that Reichenbach develops in Chapter 2 of Experience and Prediction for the thesis that your sense experience justifies your belief in the existence of an external world. After discussing his attack on the positivist theory of meaning, I describe the probability ideas that Reichenbach presents. I argue that Reichenbach begins with an argument...

This paper is about the relevance of Liar Paradoxes for truth-theoretic accounts of linguistic meaning. In " Framing Event Variables, " I develop an independent objection to such accounts. But in both essays, the first numbered sentence is the one displayed below. (1) The first numbered sentence in " Framing Event Variables " is false. Let 'Lari' be a name for the first numbered sentence in tha...