The Surrogate Colonization Of Palestine, 1917-1939

The "surrogate colonization" of Palestine had a foreign power giving to a nonnative group rights over land occupied by an indigenous people. It thus brought into play the complementary and conflicting agendas of three culturally distinguishable parties: British, Jews and Arabs. Each party had both "externalist" [those with no sustained practical experience of day to day life in Palestine] and "internalist" representatives. The surrogate idea was based on a "strategic consensus" involving each party's externalist camp: the British ruling elite, the leadership of the World Zionist Organization and the Hashemite Dynasty of Arabia. The collapse of this triangular consensus, which put an end to the policy but not the process of surrogate colonization, resulted from irreconcilable antagonisms within and between the major currents of each internalist camp. A focus on the land problem in Palestine highlights contradictions in each party's internalist agenda, which forestalled a rift between the Jewish and British sides of the consensus long enough for the Zionist settlement in Palestine (Yishuv) to acquire territory and to develop a largely self-sufficient economic, cultural, political and military infrastructure

Wittgenstein and Psychology: The Case of Transparency

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Carnap et Gödel: Echange de lettres autour de la définition de l'analycité: Introduction, traduction et notes

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Magritte: variatio eidetica e invarianti rappresentative

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Some Constraints on Possible Words

This is based on a personal, archaic version of an analysis of word meaning using semantic primitives, one that is far from adequate, but, perhaps, suggestive: it is clear that there are constraints on what kinds of "meanings" words can have, and that there are reasons why, for instance, there is no verb of any human language with 9, or even 5 "arguments", etc. but there is still no consensus, in 2011, on most of the relevant questions.An attempt to formulate constraints on possible senses of certain English words, in a generative approach, such as the maximum depth of embedding of "semantic primes", number of arguments, etc

Contre certains a priori anthropologiques

Défense ancienne (1974) d'une conception modulaire de l'esprit humain et cognitive de l'étude des phénomènes culturel