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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"propositional content"”.
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Models of propositional content
… and known? One ambition of a theory of propositional content is to point to a class of entities that can be modeled in a way that satisfies the philosophical demands of each of these roles. To this end, I provide a novel theory of propositional content and show that it yields solutions …
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Feeling in Character: Towards an Ethics of Emotion
… are subject to assessment because of their propositional content. Rationalism is unable to account for certain kinds of irrational emotion, where one forms an unwarranted emotion to avoid anxiety and secure pleasure. It exaggerates how mature and adaptive these emotions are. Attentional …
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Unarticulated Constituents and Theories of Meaning
… These are entities that are part of the propositional content of a speech act, but are not represented by any part of the sentence uttered or of the thought that is being expressed - that is, they are fully unarticulated. After offering a novel definition of this phenomenon, I argue that …
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Evolutionary Models of Language: A Methodological and Philosophical Study
… 4: Ambiguous Signals, Partial Beliefs, and Propositional Content the part that propositions are supposed to play in explanations of rational behavior. Simply put, my claim is that propositions cannot account for the behavior of rational agents.</p>
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Kalbinis nemandagumas politiniuose TV debatuose /
… achieve the goal, quantitative and qualitative content analysis methods were applied. The material for the study was collected from the debates before the elections to the Seimas for the 2016–2020 term. The total duration of the debates is 720 minutes. The analysis revealed that all participants …
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An applied linguistic analysis of the simplification of narrative texts
… other hand, concentrate on making explicit the propositional content and its presentation in the original in order to bring what is communicated in the original within the scope of the learner's transitional communicative competence. In this case, simplification focuses on the communicative …
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A COMPARISON OF METADISCOURSE MARKERS AND WRITING QUALITY IN ADOLESCENT WRITTEN NARRATIVES
… connected components. The first element is the propositional content or the meaning of the sentences, and the second consists of the words and expressions that enhance the communicative efficiency and effectiveness of the factual message. Metadiscourse markers, members of the second linguistic …
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A COMPARISON OF METADISCOURSE MARKERS AND WRITING QUALITY IN ADOLESCENT WRITTEN NARRATIVES
… connected components. The first element is the propositional content or the meaning of the sentences, and the second consists of the words and expressions that enhance the communicative efficiency and effectiveness of the factual message. Metadiscourse markers, members of the second linguistic …
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The identification and function of English prosodic features
… of the function of prosody in determining the propositional content of a sentence by investigating the relationship between syntactic structure and intonational phrasing. The first study tests and refines a model designed to predict the intonational phrasing of a sentence given the syntactic …
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Empirical Meaning and Incomplete Personhood
… is taken to be intentional, i.e., to have a propositional content which is irreducible to the causal order. Along with intentionality, certain essentially autobiographical conditions of experience are neglected in typical conceptions of the problem of meaning. They are reintroduced here. …
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"Motherhood", "the family" and Murphy Brown : New Zealanders' receptions of an American sitcom text
… of its narrative structure and discursive content. The second aspect of this project outlines the macro context in which this episode was broadcast in New Zealand, and identifies competing understandings of 'motherhood' and 'the family' in this country. The third aspect comprises a …
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THE DEFINITION AND FUNCTION OF DECEPTIVE COMMUNICATION IN A LABOR-MANAGEMENT NEGOTIATION SESSION (LYING, BELIEFS, GENUINE).
… were HEARER-BELIEFS of a speaker's intent, the propositional content of the utterance made and the speaker's sincerity, measured by a 7-point Likert-type scale. The secondary set of independent variables were ten (10) plausible characteristics of a negotiator represented as bi-polar adjectives, …
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Embedded jussives as instances of control : the case of Mongolian and Korean
… that jussive clauses denote sets of events whose propositional content amounts to a desire statement. An analysis of jussives as sets of events is shown to afford a natural extension to matrix occurrences on the assumption that the content denoted by matrix jussives is anchored to the speech …
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Physiological response to phobic imagery scripts: an examination of the influence of cognitive response cues and interactive presentation
… of a script which varied in response cue (propositional) content and presentation style: a version presented non-interactively which contained no cognitive cues (meaning propositions), a version presented non-interactively which contained cognitive cues, a version presented interactively …
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The role of preparation using case-related materials in court interpreting
… The experiment focuses on the accuracy of propositional content. Statistical results show an overwhelming effect of preparation, demonstrating a higher level of interpreting accuracy after preparation using case-related materials. A qualitative analysis of the interpreted renditions …
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Aristotle's Account of the Passions
… of relation or configurations that do not have propositional content and are well embedded into the general economy of the mind.</p> <p>A discussion of the nature of the passions however is not exhausted by examining only the two constituent elements of pleasure or pain and krisis. The role of …
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Student Perceptions of the Integration of Faith and Learning in a College Foreign Language Course
… Relational Attachment, Worship, Resources, Propositional Content, and Collaboration with Peers. Student-constructed definitions of the integration of faith and learning were: Making Connections, Worship, Atmosphere, Learning Processes, Faith Application, and Foundational. Students (81%) …
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Alterpieces: Artworks as Shifting Speech Acts
… certain conditions, are speech acts. They have propositional content, and they have a certain force: they can do things such as assert, protest, and criticise – things we would normally do with words. I defend these contested claims against several dissenters, and explore some consequences: in …
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What Dolphins Want: Animal Intentionality and Tool-Use
In this thesis, I argue that at least some animals have the sort of intentionality philosophers traditionally have only ascribed to humans. I argue for this through the examination of tool-use among New Caledonian crows and Bottlenose dolphins. New Caledonian crows demonstrate advanced …
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The Stoic cognitive impression and the Academic Aparallaxia Argument: a study of an epistemological debate.
… Stoics understand sense-impressions and their contents. The second chapter presents a detailed analysis of the Aparallaxia Argument and is restricted to only one of the type of cases invoked by the Academics to support their Indistinguishability Thesis, namely cases in which the putatively …
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