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Sens i prawda w deontologii

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Drofiszyn M.
Kwartalnik Filozoficzny
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2018
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vol. 46
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issue 4
155-178
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In the article I examine the sense and meaning of ethical norms in the same way that M. Przełęcki does for ethical judgments in the book Sense and Truth in Ethics. I argue for the position of nonnaturalistic descriptivism. I say that ‘ought’, from the ontological point of view, is one of the modus entis. I use T. Czeżowski’s method to justify this position.
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On the Social Nature of Linguistic Prescriptions

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Miłkowski M.
Psychology of Language and Communication
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2013
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vol. 17
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issue 2
175-187
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The paper proposes an empirical method to investigate linguistic prescriptions as inherent corrective behaviors. The behaviors in question may but need not necessarily be supported by any explicit knowledge of rules. It is possible to gain insight into them, for example by extracting information about corrections from revision histories of texts (or by analyzing speech corpora where users correct themselves or one another). One easily available source of such information is the revision history of Wikipedia. As is shown, the most frequent and short corrections are limited to linguistic errors such as typos (and editorial conventions adopted in Wikipedia). By perusing an automatically generated revision corpus, one gains insight into the prescriptive nature of language empirically. At the same time, the prescriptions offered are not reducible to descriptions of the most frequent linguistic use.
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All the Superhero’s Names

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Poller O.
Studia Semiotyczne
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2016
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vol. 30
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issue 2
11-44
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In this paper I concern myself with The Superman Puzzle (the phenomenon of the substitution failure of co-referential proper names in simple sentences). I argue that the descriptive content associated with proper names, besides determining the proper name’s reference, function as truth-conditionally relevant adjuncts which can be used to express a manner, reason, goal, time or purpose of action. In that way a sentence with a proper name “NN is doing something” could be understood as “NN is doing something as NN” (which means “as-soand-so”). I argue that the substitution of names can fail on modified readings because the different descriptive content of proper names modifies the main predicate differently. Here I present a formal representation of modified predicates which allows one to model intuitively the different truth-conditions of sentences from The Puzzle.
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Mental files, singularism, descriptivism: Strawsonian inspirations

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Tałasiewicz M., Tałasiewicz M.
Przegląd Filozoficzny. Nowa Seria
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2019
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issue 4
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