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Presuppositions in focus
This dissertation explores how presuppositions and focus interact. It takes as its starting point a puzzle about expressions like even and its cross linguistic kin in declarative sentences that deny presuppositions: these focus-sensitive scalar additive operators can be used in negative …
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Presuppositions in context
… ground requirement - the formal requirement that presuppositions be previously established common knowledge - and do they know when and how this requirement can be violated? Two sets of experiments, using two presupposition-carrying expressions with importantly divergent properties (too and the), …
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Presuppositions and non-truth-conditional semantics.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics. Thesis. 1974. Ph.D.
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The Role of Presuppositions in Creating and Understanding Sentences
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Toward a Criticism of Theological Reason : Time and Timelessness as Primordial Presuppositions
<p>This investigation studies the possibility of developing a theological criticism of Christian theological reason. The investigation proceeds by developing a phenomenological analysis of three major contexts within which reason has been interpreted and utilized by Christian theology for the …
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The dreamer awakes : semantic and metaphysical presuppositions in skepticism about knowledge of the external world
… For Michael Williams, the skeptic trades on presuppositions of traditional epistemology; we can avoid the skeptic by adopting contextualism. Williams is, in turn, countered by Ron Wilburn. Wilburn argues for a cross-contextual structure of second-order beliefs, a structure that would support …
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Presuppositions In Moral Education Discourse: Developing An Analytic Framework And Applying It To Moral Education Traditions
… curricula. The analytic framework introduced presuppositions that expounded upon one's center of value or source of moral authority, the nature of people and their capacity for rational thought, the nature of society, the time orientation of tradition, and the resulting morality in action. The …
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The aims and presuppositions of religious education in Catholic and secular traditions : a comparison, with reference to spiritual development and religious education
Taken from start of introduction :The purpose of this study is to analyse (1) the aims, objectives and assumptions of religious education in present-day Catholic and secular traditions, (2) to examine comparatively the similarities and dissimilarities of approach to religious education by each …
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A Study on the Influence of Philosophical Presuppositions Relating to the Notion of the God-human Relation Upon the Interpretation of Exodus
… the question of the influence of philosophical presuppositions upon the interpretation of the God-human relation in Exodus.</p> <p>Chapter 1 provides a brief introduction to why such analysis is necessary. The chapter explores the neglected issue of presuppositions in exegesis and why Exodus is …
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Why even ask? : on the pragmatics of questions and the semantics of answers
… insight pertinent to the general issue of how presuppositions project in interrogative environments. Although the phenomenon of presuppositions has received considerable attention in previous work, very little is understood about how precisely presuppositions project in the domain of questions. …
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Conquests of the Common Ground: Mansplaining and Under-Presupposing
… order to communicate efficiently, speakers make presuppositions, leaving out information that they know or assume their interlocutor already accepts. Speakers try to match their presuppositions to their interlocutor's, so that they presuppose only what is in fact common ground. In practice, of …
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The European Presence in Africa: A Historical and Literary Study (Britain, France)
… colonialism and to undermine its tenets and presuppositions.
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The recognition of the ethical in the context of professional life
… of universalizability and impartiality, and the presuppositions that moral argument should be rationalistic in procedure and prioritise conceptions of what it is right to do over what it is good to be. The various forms of contextualism, by contrast, reject all of the aforementioned principles …
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Correlating Text with History: A Critique of Method in Daniel 11: 2b-25
… own methodological approaches and theological presuppositions.</p> <p>The Purpose</p> <p>The purpose of this study is to analyze the interpretive differences in Daniel 11 among three representative scholars—John J. Collins (preterist), J. Paul Tanner (futurist), and William H. Shea …
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Scripture in the Theologies of W. Pannenberg and D. G. Bloesch: an Investigation and Assessment of its Origin, Nature, and Use
… analyzes the theological and anthropological presuppositions which have influenced Pannenberg's concept of Scripture. Chapter 4 treats Donald G. Bloesch's view of Scripture, following the same pattern as in chapter 3.</p> <p>Chapter 5 compares the positions of Pannenberg and Bloesch, …
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Cosmic Eschatology in the Epistle to the Hebrews
… is virtually universal. I then demonstrate that presuppositions about the creator’s goodness, the world’s goodness, and providence led Platonists to affirm the perpetuity of the world, and those who thought the world would be annihilated (in 2nd–4th century AD texts) intentionally subverted these …
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The metaphysics of Wilbur M. Urban
… the value of knowledge. These two value-presuppositions are a priori. Though he still held that value-qualities are known through emotions, Urban believed that the values themselves are known by intellectual intuition as objective validities, which, in turn, are ultimately conceive as …
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