... 2011, 2018 ), X-marking on want is treated as reflecting the absence of a presuppositional constraint that the O-marked counterpart comes with: a limitation of closest antecedent-worlds to the attitude holder’s belief set. want X- vs. O-marking conditionals presuppositions X-marked...

... to the presuppositions of the local community. There are three problems with Woollard’s use of presuppositions. The first is that it fails to capture an important part of our everyday understanding of doing and allowing. The second is that negative facts can be suitable to be parts of sequences even when they accord...

... of medicine may serve rather than undermine a good life. ¹ Aristotle Barth language moral presuppositions patience seduction virtues vocabulary In the Book of Common Prayer, in the section titled “Prayers for use...

... assumptions and its comparison with other principles to which we might subscribe. This paper explores aspects of the PP and its background assumptions and presuppositions, comparing them with those for risk assessment and other statements of the PP. It also briefly indicates how it resembles legal principles...

... subjunctive conditionals has to do with whether or not their presuppositions (i.e., the presuppositions in the antecedent and those in the consequent not entailed by the antecedent) are required to “project”. Counterfactual Future Past Subjunctive Iatridou S Palmer F Anderson A Lewis D Ogihara T...

... has not already occurred. This is called the time asymmetry observation. Second, even in cases that allow the antecedent of a simple past subjunctive conditional to be counterfactual, the antecedent’s presuppositions cannot be counterfactual; if the antecedent’s presuppositions...

...This book proposes a compositional semantics for subjunctive (or would) conditionals in English that accounts for their felicity conditions and the constraints on the satisfaction of their presuppositions by capitalizing on the occurrence of past tense morphology in both antecedent and consequent...

... not only visible changes in the art of dance but also the metaphysical presuppositions of a postmodernist culture of images. When one of the key figures in the world of dance, Merce Cunningham, who is generally envisaged as an exemplar of high modernism, appeals to the power of images rather than...

...This chapter seeks to address the question of what should be the attitude of a conscientious citizen to the laws of a society whose legal system is by and large good and just. It examines the implications and presuppositions of various moral attitudes to the law. It is often argued...

... anthropocentric? Shouldn’t we learn their “language” if we want to understand them? These are the questions that will be addressed in this concluding chapter. epistemological presuppositions questions anthropocentric human This content is only available as a PDF. ...

...0 12 10 1995 In a second article Rondeau returns to Gregory's exegetical method in the treatise and attempts to locate it in terms of his cultural context, both profane and Christian. She isolates three presuppositions behind Gregory's work: (1) that there is a single aim in the Psalter; (2...

.... These chapters lay the foundation for Israel itself, and so describe the presuppositions of the rest of the book. In Moses’ story, the tension between God’s mercy and God’s justice is particularly evident, and as the ideal mediator between God and humanity, Moses addresses it specifically. dominant narratives...

... formulate an alternate interpretation of modern Hindu eclecticism? At the outset of this undertaking, I made Agehananda Bharati the foil with which to raise these problems. I questioned the presuppositions of scientific rationality and confident historicism that he brought to bear on the apologetic...

...0 17 08 2000 Confucius’s presuppositions form the background. Mozi, the first opponent of Confucianism, starts the process of philosophical reflection. So he sets the philosophical agenda and the terms of debate. Most of the central concepts of Daoist philosophy actually stem from Mozi’s...

.... These are presuppositions that I will attempt to problematize here with material drawn from the Indian traditions, with the expectation that some of the issues I raise will be relevant cross-culturally in the study of religion in general and of asceticism in particular. implications expectation presuppositions...

... that through these interactions cultures would bring to the surface their own already-existing structures of meaning. morphological primordial interactions persistently presuppositions This content is only available as a PDF. ...

...0 29 05 1997 A STUDY of true and false prophecy must account for its own stance in relation to the field of inquiry that it attempts to describe. Does it claim freedom from presuppositions? Is it free from its own inherently contestable beliefa? For example, is its elevation of interpretative...

...0 25 05 1995 This book explores some of the fundamental presuppositions about and experiences of marriage in South Asian culture. It traces a variety of conceptual and imaginative boundaries delineating the institution of marriage and reveals crucial notions about marriage that are best...

... been thought to be the realization of utilitarianism, makes some questionable presuppositions about the good life, in particular about its connection with the fulfilment of desire. This problem about utilitarianism is of particular interest to business ethicists because one of the criticisms...

...This chapter proposes a semantic account for factive and other presuppositional islands. The central claim made is that these islands arise because they trigger contradictory presuppositions. The reason a contradictory presupposition arises in the case of manner and degree islands is based on two...