Search results for "Assertoric"
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Mitigating-casi: relation between propositional content and discourse units
2018
El aproximativo casi entraña la inversión polar de su proposición, sin embargo, los usos considerados expletivos presentan valores atenuantes. Este trabajo complementa con un estudio de corpus la descripción teórica del uso expletivo-atenuante en relación con la unidad discursiva de casi en el habla coloquial. La unidad que ocupa en el discurso determina su uso atenuante y supone una prueba efectiva de su naturaleza semántica, al tiempo que aclara ciertas cuestiones de la bibliografía deductiva. This paper explores the mitigating function of Spanish casi and its relation to the discourse units casi fulfills in spoken language. Casi can either entail a polar inversion of the proposition it h…
Introduction: Subjectivity and Selfhood in the History of Philosophy
2016
In our everyday dealings with ourselves, other persons and the world, we commonly take our selves, or the entities signified by our employment of the first-personal pronoun ‘I’ in simple assertoric sentences such as ‘I am’, ‘I think’, or ‘I am walking’, to be the uncontroversial loci of our experiences of being, knowing, and acting. But when we glance at contemporary literature on the philosophy of mind and action, on a steady increase for much of the twentieth and the present century in naturalist, analytic, and phenomenological approaches alike, we find that few of the intuitions we may have about that first-personal pivot actually stand uncontested. In fact, it rather seems that if there…