In this paper I argue that negation in The Port Royal Logic is not a failed or incoherent 4 approximation of Boolean complementation as maintained by Sylvain Auroux and Marc Dominicy, 5 but is rather a version of privative negation from medieval logic, and that as such it has a perfectly 6 coherent semantics. The discussion reviews the critiques of Auroux and Dominicy as well as the 7 semantics...

abstract background: gifted individuals have exclusive personality traits and need various experiences to achieve more information about themselves and their ability into developmental process from giftedness to talent. also, they can increase mental experiences and obtain greater self- actualization with recognition of the level of challenges, values and their personality traits. the aim of th...

We report work in progress on the computational modelling of a theory of concepts and concept combination. The sense generation approach to concepts provides a perspicuous way of treating a range of recalcitrant concept combinations: privative combinations (e.g., fake gun, stone lion, apparent friend). We argue that a proper treatment of concept combination must respect important syntactic cons...

An ongoing issue in phonology is how highand low-mid vowels are represented in the mental lexicon. The current study is the first to neurophsyiologically investigate whether the privative feature [ATR] or the privative feature [RTR] should be used to distinguish the French front unrounded high-mid vowel [e] and the front unrounded low-mid vowel [ɛ], that is, which feature is the dominant value ...