meaning

Are contradictions meaningful?

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:23. October 2010
Post category:Language Logic
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Introduction In this essay I answer the question in the title with a very confident “Yes”, I give multiple arguments for this answer. For the purposes of this essay a…

Quote from SEP on Pornography and Censorship

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:13. March 2010
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Link to article on SEP. Consider the following quote: "The term "pornography" is used in all of these different ways in everyday discourse and debate, as well as in philosophical…

Quine’s On What There Is

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:17. February 2010
Post category:Language
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Is it worth reading if you are interested in meaningfulness, contradictions, names and ontological arguments. W.v.O. Quine - On what there is

Semantic Analysis and meaning

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:28. October 2009
Post category:Language
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Again I'm quoting Paul Ziff's Semantic Analysis: 41. [...] Consequently, if my contention about meaning is correct, then the first 'do' in 'Please do not do it!', unlike the second…

Meaning, propositions, category errors

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:14. June 2009
Post category:Language
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I quote Swartz: "What sort of thing is my pen's being on my desk? We are inclined to say such things as "My pen's being on my desk is true,"…