Pejorative Language Some words can hurt. Slurs, insults, and swears can be highly offensive and derogatory. Some theorists hold that the derogatory capacity of a pejorative word or phrase is best explained by the content…
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I nuovi atei
I nuovi atei I nuovi atei sono autori di libri dell'inizio del XXI secolo che promuovono l'ateismo. Questi autori includono Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Daniele Dennett, e Christopher Hitchens. The “New Atheist” label for these critics of religion…
Evidenzialismo
Evidenzialismo L'evidenzialismo in epistemologia è definito dalla seguente tesi sulla giustificazione epistemica: (EVI) Person S is justified in believing proposition p at time t if and only if S’s evidence for p at t…
Ge Hong (Ko Hung, 283—343 C.E.)
Ge Hong (Ko Hung, 283—343 C.E.) Ge Hong was an eclectic philosopher who dedicated his life to searching for physical immortality, which he thought was attainable through alchemy. He lived during China’s tumultuous Period of…
Jules Henri Poincaré (1854-1912)
Jules Henri Poincaré (1854-1912) Poincaré è stato un influente filosofo francese della scienza e della matematica, nonché un illustre scienziato e matematico. Nei fondamenti della matematica sostenne il convenzionalismo, contro il formalismo, contro il Logicismo,…
Xenophanes (c. 570—c. 478 B.C.E.)
Xenophanes (c. 570—c. 478 B.C.E.) Xenophanes of Colophon was a traveling poet and sage with philosophical leanings who lived in ancient Greece during the sixth and the beginning of the fifth centuries B.C.E. Ci sono…
Egalitarianism
Egalitarianism Are all persons of equal moral worth? Is variation in income and wealth just? Does it matter that the allocation of income and wealth is shaped by undeserved luck? No one deserves the family…
G. E. M. Anscombe (1919—2001)
G. E. M. Anscombe (1919—2001) Elisabetta Anscombe, or Miss Anscombe as she was known, was an important twentieth century philosopher and one of the most important women philosophers of all time. A committed Catholic, e…
Hans Reichenbach (1891—1953)
Hans Reichenbach (1891—1953) Hans Reichenbach was a leading philosopher of science, a founder of the Berlin circle, and a proponent of logical positivism (also known as neopositivism or logical empiricism). He is known for his philosophical…
Compositionality in Language
Compositionality in Language Compositionality is a concept in the philosophy of language. A symbolic system is compositional if the meaning of every complex expression E in that system depends on, and depends only on, (io)…