Johannes Bulhof
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1508422 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Johannes Bulhof |
| PRENOMES | Johannes |
| SOBRENOME | Bulhof |
| ASSINATURA | BULHOF J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | McNeese State University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 3 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1999 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2004 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
A tautology is a tautology (or is it)
Deep tautologies
The standard understanding of tautologies is that they are semantically vacuous. Yet tautological utterances occur frequently in conversational discourse. One approach contends that apparent tautological statements are either genuinely tautologous and thereby semantically vacuous or are what we term “pseudo-tautologies”, i.e., sentences that only bear a formal syntactic resemblance to tautologies but are not in fact tautologous. Another approach …
What If? Modality and History
Philosophers and historians have long been suspicious of modal and counterfactual claims. I argue, however, that historians often legitimately use modal and counterfactual claims for a variety of purposes. They help identify causes, and hence help explain events in history. They are used to defend judgments about people, and to highlight the importance of particular events. I defend these uses of modal claims against two arguments often used to c…
A tautology is a tautology (or is it)
What If? Modality and History
Philosophers and historians have long been suspicious of modal and counterfactual claims. I argue, however, that historians often legitimately use modal and counterfactual claims for a variety of purposes. They help identify causes, and hence help explain events in history. They are used to defend judgments about people, and to highlight the importance of particular events. I defend these uses of modal claims against two arguments often used to c…
What If? Modality and History
Philosophers and historians have long been suspicious of modal and counterfactual claims. I argue, however, that historians often legitimately use modal and counterfactual claims for a variety of purposes. They help identify causes, and hence help explain events in history. They are used to defend judgments about people, and to highlight the importance of particular events. I defend these uses of modal claims against two arguments often used to c…
Deep tautologies
The standard understanding of tautologies is that they are semantically vacuous. Yet tautological utterances occur frequently in conversational discourse. One approach contends that apparent tautological statements are either genuinely tautologous and thereby semantically vacuous or are what we term “pseudo-tautologies”, i.e., sentences that only bear a formal syntactic resemblance to tautologies but are not in fact tautologous. Another approach …
A tautology is a tautology (or is it)
Artificial Intelligence (3 obras) · Computer Science (3 obras) · Epistemology (3 obras) · Philosophy (3 obras) · History (2 obras) · Advanced Text Analysis Techniques (1 obras) · Artificial Intelligence (1 obras) · Authorship Attribution and Profiling (1 obras) · Causation (1 obras) · Context (archaeology (1 obras)