Many characters in written Chinese incorporate components (radicals) that provide cues to meaning. These are often partial, and some misleading because they unrelated the character’s Previous studies have shown radicals influence reader’s processing of which occur (e.g., Feldman Siok J Memory Language 40(4):559–576, 1999). We investigated whether readers automatically activate semantic informat...

Nesih meselesi, fıkıh usûlünün ihtilaflı konularından biridir. İlk dönemlerden itibaren neshin vukû bulmasının mümkün olup olmayacağı veya keyfiyeti hakkında farklı görüşler öne sürülmüş, neshe verilen lügavî, şer‘î, örfî ve ıstılâhî anlamlar çerçevesinde değerlendirmeler yapılmıştır. Bu çalışmanın amacı, yapılan bu değerlendirmelere göre usul âlimlerinin nesih kavramının hangi anlamı üzerinden...

Chalmers’s philosophical work exploits a distinctive version of two-dimensionalism, a formal modal framework from the 1960s and 1970s that one can use to define two kinds of possible worlds semantic values. Chalmers presents this as the best form of a Fregean account of content. One of the principal aims of Constructing the World is to provide its metaphysical foundations. Chalmers presents him...

The concept of rationality differs between psychology, philosophy, economics and biology. For psychologists and philosophers, the emphasis is on the process by which decisions are made: rational beliefs are arrived at by reasoning and contrasted with beliefs arrived at by emotion, faith, authority or arbitrary choice. Economists emphasise consistency of choice, regardless of the process and the...