... The distinction between de re (of the thing) and de dicto (of what is said) readings of sentences has long been the topic of studies in logic and philosophy of language. The article proposes to apply these concepts to anonymity. It argues that, in the proposed setting, de dicto knowledge preserves anonymity...

... won the race because she beat the other contestants. He was born in Ukraine because he was born within Ukrainian borders. The fact that Socrates exists fully grounds the fact that the set having the most famous teacher of Plato as its sole member exists. On the de re reading, this claim...

... controversial issues of quantified modal logics, relative to the identity predicate, Barcan’s formulas and de re and de dicto modalities, can be tackled from a new angle within the present framework. First-order modal logic non-normal modal logic non-deterministic matrices Ivlev’s logics...

... acquaintance contextualism de re thought attitude ascriptions Singular thoughts are mental states that are directly about objects. Singular thoughts are often treated as relations between agents and singular contents: propositions that constitutively involve the object they are about. ¹...

... then identify a set of themes that are poised to dominate professional firm research for the next quarter century—namely internationalization, changing career and work–life preferences, de/re/regulation, and technology. These analyses lead us to a new set of PSF dimensions, which we present as an emerging...

... genuine de re modalities, especially those of possible existence and non-existence. de re modality existence metaphysical modality necessity possibility potentiality Potentiality is an exposition and development of a new account of (primarily metaphysical) possibility and necessity...

... proponents between file-thinking and singularity. singular thought de re thought mental files Jeshion cognitivism acquaintance It has become popular in the recent literature on singular (or de re) thought to identify the phenomenon of thinking a singular thought with the phenomenon...

...John Divers [email protected] © The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Analysis Trust. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: [email protected] 2014 There is a de re modal truth that proves inconvenient for the canonical...

... in terms of the distinction between de re and de dicto beliefs and intentions. proper names causal theory of naming de re attitudes Saul Kripke Gareth Evans ‘Madagascar’ example ‘Gödel’ example Madagascar entered the literature of the ‘new theory of reference’ almost from...

... is derived from cucurbita, Latin for the bottle gourd. The focus of De Re Rustica is agriculture. For cucurbits, the subject matter includes descriptions of management systems for climate control, specifically the use of a specularium (an ancient greenhouse using mirrorstone...

... Proofs of Prophecy Soldier case Anne Eliot Doctor case ought uncertainty Wiland Eric de dicto de re Enoch David minimization of the moral risk moral risk Smith Michael Weatherson Brian Hadith mutawatir al Hillī al Muhaqqiq Fazel Abi Divinity of Scripture Existence of Seemingly...

...0 21 06 2024 Chapter 5 takes as its subject Columella’s dual treatment of horticulture in poetry and prose in his agricultural treatise De Re Rustica. This is the first extant treatment of horticulture in Latin literature, and perhaps the first work to include the garden...

... simplicity Henry of Ghent Dasein Existenz Heidegger Martin quantification Meinongianism being in possibilism A theory Barnes Elizabeth possibilia metaphysically ideal language counterpart theory Lewis David essence de re modality ontological pluralism ontological argument Heidegger...

...This chapter brings out some of the interconnections between the specific issues about the logical form of de re belief attributions and the broader issues about intentionality. It begins by going over some familiar ground: reviewing the Quine/Kaplan analysis, spelling out...

... François Salmon Nathan denotation Davidson de re sense existence free logic rigidity Russellian proposition truth theory This chapter is concerned with issues affecting the framework within which the views which follow are developed. I think that one of the main barriers to acceptance of RWR...

...This chapter begins with a discussion of Frege's model of thought. It then discusses Burge's views about de re beliefs and Perry's thought without representation. context‐dependence Frege Gottlob Fregean model of thought language natural language representationalism structure...

...McGinn contests Mackie's reductive explanation of Kripke's claim that the origin of a thing constitutes a de re necessity (i.e. that a thing's origin is essential to it). On McGinn's non‐reductive alternative, a biological entity's origin is essential because its developmental...

.... ignorance speech act truth paradox akrasia suspension of judgment Friedman Jane Frege Gottlob defeater obligation agency epistemic assertion group ignorance Egypt Lackey Jennifer Transparency View assertion de re ignorance group ignorance de dicto ignorance inexpressible ignorance...

... accommodate de re metaphysical necessity. It is argued that the conditions on objectivity, to which metaphysical modality is relative, are general, and that therefore they primarily give rise to de dicto metaphysical necessities. However, a notion of conditional...

...The de re/de dicto distinction describes the interaction of intensional operators and noun phrases in a sentence. The classic example ‘I want a sloop’ due to Quine (1956) contrasts two readings: a desire for a particular sloop (de re) and ‘relief...