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uncertainty represents the dispersion of values that could reasonably be assigned to a measurand. By examining the philosophy of measurement in each view, we show that a clear understanding of the two views is ... adopted, an uncertainty component is always evaluated using the same data and related information [1.2.2.4]. 3 In philosophy, this use of words is consistent with the redundancy theory of truth [ 23
spellout . Dordrecht: Springer. Baker , Mark. 1988 . Incorporation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Bale , Alan. 2008 . A universal scale of comparison . Linguistics and Philosophy 31 : 1 - 55 . https ... : Indefiniteness and islands . Linguistics and Philosophy 43 : 427 - 472 . Chierchia , Gennaro. 1998 . Reference to kinds across language . Natural Language Semantics 6 ( 4 ): 339 - 405 . Chomsky , Noam. 1957
a speech on the campus of West Texas State University in Canyon. In reference to his personal political philosophy, Ford said, "any government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough ... BATTLE THAT TRANSFORMED POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS IN TEXAS by Sean P. Cunningham In the sixteen years prior to the 1976 election season, politics in Texas was characterized by conservative ideology, as were
journeys. * 143 EAST TEXAS H,STORiCAL JOURNAL That Jones expressed her ideas through fiction as opposed to nonfiction, however, reaffirms that conventional social standards deemed political philosophy to be ... Jones's Five Generations Hence (1916): A Gendered Means to a Political End By KAREN KOSSTE-CHERNYSHEV "If history is the raw material of literature, literature is an artifact of history. And as an
Citation A POLITICAL LABYRINTH: TEXAS IN THE CIVIL WAR hy Nancy Head Bowen Thirty·six years ago an eminent historian, Charles W. Ramsdell, surveyed some of the problems involved in writing the history of ... that local ante-bellum political alignments, personal rivalries, and social and economic distinctions carried over into the Confederate ex perience and helped to shape the peculiar nature of that
structure of local business and landowner elites was still a necessity to win an election. These events played a part in what emerged as Ralph Yarborough's political philosophy. As Yarborough discovered ... on Ralph Yarborough's Political Patrick L. Cox Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/ethj Part of the United States History Commons Recommended Citation - Career 1 r r
HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIO:-.J POLITICAL PATRIARCH: DAVID B. CULBERSON AND THE POLITICS OF RAILROAD BUILDING, TARIFF REFORM, AND SILVER COINAGE IN POST-CIVIL WAR AMERICA by Leonard Schlup David B. Culberson ... (1830-1900) was a prominent political figure in late nineteenth-century East Texas history. A Democrat who served in the United States Hom,e of Representatives from 1875 to 1897, Culberson epitomized the
. Giannakidou , Anastasia, and Alda Mari . 2018 . The semantic roots of positive polarity: Epistemic modal verbs and adverbs . Linguistics and Philosophy 41 : 623 - 664 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-018- 9235 ... . Hans J. Eikmeyer and Hannes Rieser , 38 - 74 . Berlin: de Gruyter. Kratzer , Angelika. 1989 . An investigation of the lumps of thought . Linguistics and Philosophy 12 : 607 - 653 . Kratzer , Angelika
This paper draws attention to various environments in Greek which show that imperatives convey possibility and not necessity as widely assumed in the literature. The interaction of imperatives with other operators reveals the presence of an existential operator. At the same time, however, it is shown that imperatives cannot be analysed as invariably conveying possibility. Instead...
, Universitätsstr. 150, 44801 Bochum, Germany Abusch , Dorit. 1997 . Sequence of tense and temporal de re. Linguistics and Philosophy 20 ( 1 ): 1 - 50 . Altshuler , Daniel. 2008 . Narrative effects in Russian ... . Ryan . 2016 . Past time reference in a language with optional tense . Linguistics and Philosophy 39 ( 4 ): 247 - 294 . Bochnak , M. Ryan , Vera Hohaus, and Anne Mucha . 2019 . Variation in tense and
Different approaches to the philosophy and description of measurement have evolved over time, and they are still evolving. There is not always a clear demarcation between approaches, but rather a ... not always be practical, even if the philosophy is sound). Figure 6 illustrates this idea for just two different measurement principles, and Figure 7 is meant to illustrate the advantage of using
This paper presents a novel account for the optionality of negative concord observed with neither...nor coordinations, in an otherwise strict negative concord language—Turkish. I argue that the apparently optional negative concord is a surface phenomenon that can be traced back to a structural ambiguity arising from the type-flexibility of coordination operators. The semantic...
We examine three constructions across several languages in which a mass noun is embedded in what appears to be a count environment, but the construction as a whole remains mass. We argue that the discussed phenomena—“Q-noun” constructions like lots of water, bare measure constructions like kilos of sugar, and pluralised mass nouns in languages like Greek and Persian—all involve...
supporting the idea of a nationally directed educational system, This idea of national control later contlicted with the principles of local, or states' rights, a political philosophy that increasingly gained ... other political divisions in this state, shall not be alienated in fee, nor disposed of otherwise than by lease, for a term not exceeding twenty years, in such manner as the Legislature may direct." The
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years, Rayburn adhered to a consistent political philosophy. He usually supported segregation, immigration restriction, prohibition, na tional preparedness, the income tax, government economy, state ... was an unusual man with a promising political career ahead of him. One such legislator was Samuel Ealy Johnson, Jr., the representative rrom Johnson City, and the father or Lyndon Baines John~on.P On
Honorifics without [HON] Ruoan Wang 0 0 Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, MA , United States of America Honorifics are grammaticalized
treatment of agricultural workers in the United States which often fell directly in line with the political and racial dynamics for sustaining an underpaid workforce. The Bracero Program, therefore, is but a ... factors played a role in ending the Bracero Program including adverse publicity, labor unrest, the mechanization of cotton, political pressure by several organizations, and a nativist backlash. What also
approached his work. It also embodies the spirit of his "great world-train" philosophy, coupling emotionalism with harshness and sentimentality with contempt in a effort to supplant immoderate public optimism ... circulated before the tum of the century. Many of them embodied the refonner spirit and worked to expose a multitude of social, political. and economic abuses in American life. After 1900, Lincoln Steffens
, for all peoples, for all recorded timc. They take in politics, diplomacy, and war, their traditional province, but today also embrace economics, industry, labor, science, religion, philosophy, medi ... International Review of History and Political Science, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, and America sHeritage in the Twentieth Century. Walter Sulton (PhD, Texas, 1964) also contributed to the aforementioned