Xinli Wang
Biographic Data
| ID | 5722751 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Xinli Wang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Xinli |
| FAMILY NAME | Wang |
| SIGNATURE | WANG X |
| AFFILIATIONS | Juniata College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5990-4117 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Presuppositional Approach to Conceptual Schemes
The current discussions of conceptual schemes and related topics are misguided; for they have been focused too much on the truth-conditional notions of meaning/concepts and translation/interpretation in Tarski’s style. It is exactly due to such a Quinean interpretation of the notion of conceptual schemes that the very notion of conceptual schemes falls prey to Davidson’s attack. I argue that what should concern us in the discussions of conceptual…
The Propositional vs. Hermeneutic Models of Cross-Cultural Understanding
What the authors attempts to address in this paper is a Kantian question: not whether, but how is cross-cultural understanding possible? And specifically, what is a more effective approach for cross-cultural understanding? The answer lies in an analysis of two different models of cross-cultural understanding, that is, propositional and hermeneutic understanding. To begin with, the authors presents a linguistic interpretation of culture, i.e., a c…
Presuppositional Languages and the Failure of Cross-Language Understanding
Pourquoi la compréhension mutuelle entre deux vastes communautés linguistiques substantiellement différentes est-elle souvent problématique et même inaccessible? Pour répondre à cette question, j'introduis d'abord une notion de langages présuppositionnels. Sur la base de la structure sémantique d'un langage présuppositionnel, j'identifie une importante condition nécessaire pour la compréhension effective d'un langage : l'interprète est capable de…
Taxonomy, truth-value gaps and incommensurability: A reconstruction of Kuhn's taxonomic interpretation of incommensurability
Taxonomy, truth-value gaps and incommensurability: A reconstruction of Kuhn's taxonomic interpretation of incommensurability
Presuppositional Languages and the Failure of Cross-Language Understanding
Pourquoi la compréhension mutuelle entre deux vastes communautés linguistiques substantiellement différentes est-elle souvent problématique et même inaccessible? Pour répondre à cette question, j'introduis d'abord une notion de langages présuppositionnels. Sur la base de la structure sémantique d'un langage présuppositionnel, j'identifie une importante condition nécessaire pour la compréhension effective d'un langage : l'interprète est capable de…
The Propositional vs. Hermeneutic Models of Cross-Cultural Understanding
What the authors attempts to address in this paper is a Kantian question: not whether, but how is cross-cultural understanding possible? And specifically, what is a more effective approach for cross-cultural understanding? The answer lies in an analysis of two different models of cross-cultural understanding, that is, propositional and hermeneutic understanding. To begin with, the authors presents a linguistic interpretation of culture, i.e., a c…
A Presuppositional Approach to Conceptual Schemes
The current discussions of conceptual schemes and related topics are misguided; for they have been focused too much on the truth-conditional notions of meaning/concepts and translation/interpretation in Tarski’s style. It is exactly due to such a Quinean interpretation of the notion of conceptual schemes that the very notion of conceptual schemes falls prey to Davidson’s attack. I argue that what should concern us in the discussions of conceptual…
Linguistics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · History (2 works) · Metaphysics (2 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (2 works) · Presupposition (2 works) · Relativism (2 works)