Philosophy of language

Her belief of epistemology is a commitment in regards to when a person gives you an account of who they actually are, you must believe them and become subjective to the things they believe are the norm. I take that to mean that in order to be subjective of what the person shows you, you must recognize that within relationships is an immense amount of powwer and that those relationships of power are directed through language. Also that to realize that each person has power within themselvs whether theyre male, female, gay, or straight. Althaus-Reid speaks a lot on queer theology, feminist theology and liberation theology. She tends to utilize a sort of queer methodology which tends to open up the possibility of queer emodimen in light of a Christ who is equally fluid and transgressive. This differs from Mignolo who says “Such foundation legitmizes the assumptions and claims that knowledge was beyond bodies and places and that Christian theology and secular philosophy and science were the limis of knowledge-making beyond and besides which all knowledge was lacking: folklore, myth, traditional knowledge, were invented to legitimize imperial epistemology.” Where as Althaus-Reid talks about the indecent exposures: excessive sex and the crisis of theological…

Zhiyuan Li Philosophy 3000 In his paper Realism and Skepticism: Brains in a Vat Revisited, Graeme Forbes tries to articulate Putnam’s brains in a vat (BIV) argument. According to Forbes (1995), in order for a normally embodied thinker to think about concepts such as brain, in and vat, she “must somehow be informationally linked to” instances of those concepts (206). However, Forbes does not consider (and it seems to me that he does not think he needs to consider) what particular sorts of…

The concept of reference within semantics is described as when ‘…speakers indicate which things in the world are being talked about’ (Hurford et al: 2007). In semantics, reference is important as it examines language through the meaning we attach words. Notions such as variable and constant reference are especially important. Other notions that are taken into account are opaque context and equative sentences. When speakers indicate what they are talking about through different expressions this…

with numerous meanings help Euclid’s argument remain useful and one of prestige in society today. Euclid refrained from immense specifics within his definition because that could easily result in too many details to be applied to all “points”. The ambiguity within his definition aids in the relevance of his definition in modern culture. This use of ambiguity can be applied and useful to readers today on many levels. On the surface level, Euclid is illustrating to readers that the use of specific…

The Apartment Film has a specific structure that creates meaning out of a series of photographs. This structure uses a specific language to create a narrative that the spectator should be able to understand. Christian Metz believes that through denotation a stronger meaning can be derived from the connotation. The study of connotation is that it is always symbolic in its nature, while denotation is the literal sense of the film. Connotative meaning should extend over the denotative meaning…

Espaillat uses a combination of Spanish and English to show the two worlds she lives in. 5. Consider whether words we use have an emotional as well as a denotative meaning. What are 2 examples of this in her poem? When the speaker uses the word heart in the third line of the poem, the speaker is using the connotative meaning of the word. The father fears that once his daughter learns English she will forget or even shone Language she learnt from him and is a part of his identity. Another…

Irony is the use of words in a way to convey a meaning that is opposite from the literal meaning. There are a few types of irony. Situational irony is when something happens that is the opposite of what is expected. Another type of irony is verbal irony is a contrast between the intended meaning of what is spoken and waht the apparent meaning is to the hearer. Lastly, dramatic irony is when the audience knows something a character does not. In Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, she uses all three…

After reading part of Cultural Anthropology by Robert L. Welsch and Luis A. Vivanco, I have improved my comprehension of culture and found a better understanding of what culture truly stands for; yet, like other anthropologists to this day, find it hard to find one concise definition that truly encompasses every aspect of culture. Culture can be defined as broadly as how humans view the world around them, yet it can also be so specific like the food people eat for breakfast every morning.…

Irony is a literary technique where the usage of language expresses that something is the opposite of what one expects; it may be used for a humorous effect. There are three types of irony; there is verbal, situational, and dramatic irony. Verbal irony is when an author’s stated meaning differs from the actual meaning, situational irony is when a different situation occurs than what is expected, and dramatic irony is when the audience knows more information that the characters do. In the story…

choices. In this regard, Frone (1990) demonstrated that people with higher level of ambiguity tolerance tended to obtain higher satisfaction with their jobs than those with lower level of ambiguity tolerance. Futhermore, Malaska (1997) ,by using Budner’s measure of tolerance of ambiguity, stated that intelligence is highly correlated with ambiguity tolerance suggesting that more research is needed to explore the potential relation of intelligence to ambiguity tolerance construct utilizing…