A word, phrase or sentence is ambiguous if it has more than one meaning. The word ‘light’, for example, can mean not very heavy or not very dark. ...
Many of our thoughts are about particular individuals (persons, things, places,…). For example, one can spot a certain Ferrari and think that it is red. What enables this ...
A central problem in philosophy is to explain, in a way consistent with their causal efficacy, how mental states can represent states of affairs in the world. Consider, ...
There are certain things one can do just by saying what one is doing. This is possible if one uses a verb that names the very sort of ...
Making a statement may be the paradigmatic use of language, but there are all sorts of other things we can do with words. We can make requests, ask ...