The American writer Ernest Hemingway, 1898--1961, said the following about the art of writing: ‘‘We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master’’. This phrase also applies to writers of scientific texts. We are apprentices and self-taught writers in this difficult task of producing quality scientific writing. Creating a good text is the result of the hard work of writing. ...

Over the past century, the term picaresque has been fully incorporated into the metalanguage of Western national literatures: picaresque novel in English, novela picaresca in Spanish, roman picaresque in French, Schelmenroman or pikarescher Roman in German, Плутовско́й рома́н in Russian, romanzo picaresco in Italian, pikaresk-roman in Danish and Norwegian, and pikareskroman in Swedish. Novels fro...

In his paper “Flaws of Formal Relationism”, Mahrad Almotahari argues against the sort of response to Frege’s Puzzle I have defended elsewhere, which he dubs ‘Formal Relationism’. Almotahari argues that, because of its specifically formal character, this view is vulnerable to objections that cannot be raised against the otherwise similar Semantic Relationism due to Kit Fine. I argue in response ...