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Wittgensteinian descriptivism and concepts of self-renunciation
Part I presents a systematic presentation of what is termed 'the Wittgensteinian position', broken down into eight theses, each of which is thought of as intrinsic to self-renouncing faith. Part II consists of three case-studies examining the conception of self-renouncing faith found in the works …
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Naming without necessity
… demonstrate this by constructing a version of descriptivism that is combined with the same metaphysics – that is, a nontrivial version of essentialism – found in Kripke, but which effectively avoids all of the standard criticisms. With my version of descriptivism in place, I present what I take …
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EnsleyEdits: Creating a Style Resource for Professional Writers
… through the lens of prescriptivism and descriptivism, and assessing the gaps of current online style resources demonstrate how a new online style resource hosted on Instagram, <em>EnsleyEdits</em>, can meet this need for professional writers. Research on current social media, …
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On The Social Control Of Science
… between the poles of prescriptivism and descriptivism. Descriptive methodologies can only paint pictures of how science is done. They may discover that external control is seldom found in research, but they must prescind from any evaluation of such findings. Only a prescriptive …
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Thomas Aquinas on the Nature of Singular Thought
In his account of the intellectual cognition of singulars, Aquinas claims that the intellect cognizes singulars by way of mental images. Some recent commentators have claimed that Aquinas' appeal to mental images is inadequate to account for the intellectual cognition of singulars because mental …