Philosophy of Grammar
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I am planning a history of the notion of philosophical nonsense and naturally difficult historical and exegetical questions have come up. Charles Pigden has argued that the notion goes back at least as far as Hobbes and that Locke,... more
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There are passages in Wittgenstein where he compares his method to psychotherapy and one or two where he seems to suggest that the ‘patient’ has the last word on his ‘illness’ and ‘cure’. This paper tries to take these seriously,... more
I am planning a history of the notion of philosophical nonsense and naturally difficult historical and exegetical questions have come up. Charles Pigden has argued that the notion goes back at least as far as Hobbes and that Locke,... more
The concept of category is fundamental to general grammar and dates back to Aristotle.
Are Aristotelian categories either grammatical or semantical or ontological?
What sense they make to glossematics and to strcutural semantics?
Are Aristotelian categories either grammatical or semantical or ontological?
What sense they make to glossematics and to strcutural semantics?
The GO model proposes a co-generative view of the emergence of language. Most conventional linguistics models conceive of language as a representational system of symbols which refer to events, either mental or external to the organism.... more
I am planning a history of the concept of philosophical nonsense and naturally difficult historical and exegetical questions have come up. Charles Pigden has argued that it goes back at least as far as Hobbes and that Locke, Berkeley,... more
The flight of a bird is not in wings, but in the shape of the space-time enclosed by each wing from instant to instant. In other words, flight is a grammar of relationships. An infinite variety and number of wings may participate in this... more
This paper was accepted at the VCC (Verbs, Clauses, and Constructions) International Symposium, organized by the Department of Modern Languages, University of La Rioja, in 2014 (Logroño, Spain, 22-24 October... more
espanolSe estudian en este trabajo las relaciones textuales e ideologicas que existen entre la Filosofia del Entendimiento (1881) y el pensamiento gramatical de Andres Bello. Se mantiene la hipotesis de que algunas innovaciones... more
This article investigates the semantics of the protasis of the manumission law of the Covenant Code (Exodus 21:2a). Despite the proposal by John Van Seters that the slave there purchased must “already” have been a slave, such a... more
“Philosophical categories and 'thought forms': Considering the relation between (Greek) logic and (Arabic) grammar (From Aristotle to al-Fārābī)“ In diesem Beitrag sollen die historisch-genetischen Relationen zwischen Grammatik, Logik... more