Abstract Many semantic theories about count nouns and mass nouns use mereological notions like part and sum. At the lexical level, count nouns are often...
Thomas Schindler: A Gödelian solution of the class-theoretic paradoxes Abstract: A class is the extension of some predicate. Classes are not to be confused with...
Abstract This paper introduces the notion of ‘Conceptual Injustice’, which occurs when a person, group or phenomenon is wrongfully excluded from a concept. I present...
Abstract: What is it to understand a linguistic utterance? According to the current orthodoxy in the philosophy of language, it is to be in a...
Abstract Recent work in the theory of essence has focused on whether one can reduce constitutive essence to consequential essence. Many have followed Fine and...
The sceptical paradox arises from the tension between three appealing claims: (1) that one cannot know the negation of a sceptical hypothesis, (2) that if...