Arthur Merin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3851685 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arthur Merin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arthur |
| FAMILY NAME | Merin |
| SIGNATURE | MERIN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institut für Urheber- und Medienrecht |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Algebra of elementary social acts
Large parts of talking lives are spent doing four things: making claims on someone's resources or credulity; concessions of such claims; denials; and retractions. Not all of these need actual talk. In Civi l Society, even in its negotiable margins, much is transacted in silence. Nor does all talk appear to be of those four kinds. Some 10 3 to 10 4 of English verbs or phrase types designate usefully distinct ways of doing things with words. 1 Neve…
Permission Sentences Stand in the Way of Boolean and Other Lattice–Theoretic Semantices
Permission sentences undermine the Fregean dogma of speech-act-independent propositional contents. I expound, develop and criticize little-read analyses of this phenomenon by Lewis (1979) and Kamp (1973, 1979). Section 2 reformulates Lewis's state-transformation paradigm for atomic commands and permissions, related as direct and inverse, namely non-monotonic theory change. Lewis's and Stalnaker's search for remedies inspired by conditional semant…
Imperatives: Linguistics vs. Philosophy
Imperatives: Linguistics vs. Philosophy
Permission Sentences Stand in the Way of Boolean and Other Lattice–Theoretic Semantices
Permission sentences undermine the Fregean dogma of speech-act-independent propositional contents. I expound, develop and criticize little-read analyses of this phenomenon by Lewis (1979) and Kamp (1973, 1979). Section 2 reformulates Lewis's state-transformation paradigm for atomic commands and permissions, related as direct and inverse, namely non-monotonic theory change. Lewis's and Stalnaker's search for remedies inspired by conditional semant…
Algebra of elementary social acts
Large parts of talking lives are spent doing four things: making claims on someone's resources or credulity; concessions of such claims; denials; and retractions. Not all of these need actual talk. In Civi l Society, even in its negotiable margins, much is transacted in silence. Nor does all talk appear to be of those four kinds. Some 10 3 to 10 4 of English verbs or phrase types designate usefully distinct ways of doing things with words. 1 Neve…
Linguistics (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Algebra over a field (1 works) · Applied linguistics (1 works) · Axiom (1 works) · Clinical linguistics (1 works) · Cognition (1 works) · Cognitive linguistics (1 works)