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Konu "Language and languages -- Philosophy." için M.A. Theses listeleme

Konu "Language and languages -- Philosophy." için M.A. Theses listeleme

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  • A critical examination of the philosophical defense of free logics 
    Altan, Emre. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    In classical quantification theory, each singular term available in the formal language must denote some member of the quantificational domain. In this sense, standard systems of predicate logic do not allow for non-denoting ...
  • Inferentialism and indeterminacy at home 
    Şişkolar, Cem. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    According to W.V. Quine his thesis of the indeterminacy of radical inter-linguistic translation applies to the home language as well. This view implies that the usual homophonic understanding of our interlocutors' utterances ...
  • On the rigidity of general terms 
    Yavuz, Alper. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2012., 2012.)
    The aim of this thesis is to discuss whether general terms are rigid and if they are, how their rigidity should be interpreted. To this end, I first present the problems related to the rigidity of general terms. The most ...
  • Semantics of empty names: could Vulcan have existed? 
    Buhara, Berrak. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    Speaking of things that do not exist constitutes a significant part of our conversations. It happens when we talk about such things as the tenth planet, Phlogiston, the Loch Ness Monster or the Yeti. When speaking of what ...
  • The critical assessment of the direct referentialist solutions to the semantic problems of empty names 
    Polat, Mustafa. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2013., 2013.)
    Direct Referentialist account of proper names fundamentally contends that the sole semantic meaning of a proper name is its referent if and only if it has any. By the principle of semantic compositionality, it entails the ...
  • The emergence of inostensible reference 
    Doğru, Gökhan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    This thesis is a struggle to combine the developments in modern linguistics and philosophy of language by focusing on the emergence of inostensible reference. Inostensible reference is a linguistic tool that allows ...
  • The sorites argument against descriptivism 
    Sezgin, Anıl Seçkin. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    In the theory of reference, descriptivism about proper names is a family of closely related theories which broadly hold that a proper name refers to an object by virtue of being associated, in the idiolect of a speaker, ...

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