Some Logical Notations for Pragmatic Assertions

The pragmatic notion of assertion has an important inferential role in logic. There are also many notational forms to express assertions in logical systems. This paper reviews, compares and analyses languages with signs for assertions, including explicit signs such as Frege’s and Dalla Pozza’s logical systems and implicit signs with no specific sign for assertion, such as Peirce’s algebraic and graphical logics and the recent modification of the latter termed Assertive Graphs. We identify and discuss the main ‘points’ of these notations on the logical representation of assertions, and evaluate their systems from the perspective of the philosophy of logical notations. Pragmatic assertions turn out to be useful in providing intended interpretations of a variety of logical systems

The haunted paddock: exploring the roots of an ambiguous urban green space

Research on public access to urban green space tends to focus upon access-takers’ motives and meaning-making. The motives and meaning-making of the owners and managers who control such spaces are rarely examined. To address this deficit this article presents a longitudinal case study examining how an owner's ambivalent stance over public access to his public house’s exterior 'beer garden' area arose from its (and his) habitus. The case study shows how the owner came to unwittingly present this as an uninviting and ambiguous urban green space by inheriting and perpetuating a preexisting, habitual encoding of territoriality at his struggling, city-fringe commercial premises. In interpreting this ambivalence, the article examines the influence of both local and wider structural factors showing how both material traces of prior ordering and the owner’s pragmatic understandings of liability and risk shaped this place, and made it simultaneously appear both open and closed to public access

Regulaciones normativas y uso del lenguaje en la descripción de eventos políti-cos : un análisis del uso pragmático del lenguaje en los periódicos

El Sesgo Lingüístico Intergrupal se define como la tendencia a describir comportamientos positivos del endogrupo y negativos del exogrupo en categorías linguísticas más abstractas que el comportamiento negativo en el endogrupo y el positivo en el exogrupo (Fiedler, Bluemke, Friese & Hofmann, 2003). Basándose en la idea de Moscovici que “algo” está de-trás del texto (1994, p. 163), se presentan tres estudios que analizan el uso del lenguaje en editoriales de periódicos. Se seleccionaron editoriales de periódicos diversos en los que se describen diferentes eventos políticos relevantes: asesinato de políticos, la tregua de ETA y la censura de un periódico vasco. Los verbos y los adjetivos fueron codificados de acuerdo con el Modelo de Categorías Linguísticas (Semin & Fiedler 1988). De acuerdo con el MCL, los resultados muestran que los periódicos transmiten su perspectiva al describir de manera diferente a los agresores de los miembros del endogrupo y del exogrupo (Estudios 1 y 3). Los resultados también muestran que dicho efecto persiste incluso cuando la situación con-flictiva ya no está presente (Estudio 2). En suma, los resultados muestran que, dependien-do de la perspectiva de la posición tomada por el medio, se produce un uso sutil del len-guaje, el cual expresa regulaciones dirigidas por disposiciones. Finalmente, se discute la pertinencia de la Teoría de las Representaciones Sociales para explicar el uso de las dife-rentes regulaciones normativas, para entender este uso pragmático del lenguaje, tan con-sistente en los medios de comunicación.The Linguistic Intergroup Bias is defined as the tendency to describe positive ingroup and negative outgroup behaviors in more abstract linguistic categories than negative ingroup and positive outgroup behavior (Fiedler et al, 2003). Basing itself on Moscovici‟s idea that “something” is beyond the text, (1994, p. 163), three studies analyze the use of language in newspaper editorials. Editorials were selected from different newspapers describing differ-ent political relevant events: the killing of politicians, the truce of ETA, and the banning of a Basque newspaper. Verbs and adjectives were coded according to the Linguistic Category Model (Semin & Fiedler 1988). According to the LCM, results show that newspapers transmit their point of view by describing differently member aggressors from the ingroup and from the outgroup (Study 1 and 3). Results also show that this effect lasts even when the explicit conflictive situation is no longer going on (Study 2). In sum, results showed that a subtle language use expressing dispositional driven regulations is used depending on the position taken by the media. Finally, the pertinence of the Theory of Social Representations to ex-plain the use of different normative pragmatic regulations is discussed to understand this pragmatic use of language that is so consistent in the mass media

On Barrio, Lo Guercio, and Szmuc on Logics of Evidence and Truth

The aim of this text is to reply to criticisms of the logics of evidence and truth and the epistemic approach to paraconsistency advanced by Barrio [2018], and Lo Guercio and Szmuc [2018]. We also clarify the notion of evidence that underlies the intended interpretation of these logics and is a central point of Barrio’s and Lo Guercio & Szmuc’s criticisms

Challenges And Strategies To Strengthen Relationship Between Science And Politics Regarding Climate Change1,2

The socioenvironmental framework that characterizes contemporary societies shows that human impact on the environment is causing increasingly complex changes both in quantitative and qualitative terms. Therefore, while highlighting the complexity of the events and the need of dialogue among science, managers and society, it emphasizes the prevalence of an instrumental cognitive rationality, which generally disregards the interdisciplinary dimension of problems affecting and maintaining life in our planet. The main objective of this work is to analyze factors affecting the connection between science and politics and to overcome those obstacles, emphasizing triggering and mobilizing factors.19423524

I / believe in ruin : Trance, Affect, and Disorientation

In thirty-four numbered entries, The Pink Trance Notebooks (2015) assemble Wayne Koestenbaum’s daily observations, musings, and obsessive attachments that explore the possibilities and dangers of inhabiting a disoriented trace-state. To uncover the politics of trance at the heart of Koestenbaum’s Notebooks, I turn to theories of affect that work well with Koestenbaum’s experimental and innovative poetics. I argue that Koestenbaum’s mode of writing illustrates a drive toward an all-encompassing, inclusionary, and empowering exploration of how to make and how to obscure meaning and knowledge. The three main chapters that comprise this project approach trance poetics from a different conceptual angle. Each section does, however, intend to build upon one another, recognizing the unified nature of trance poetics across epistemic lines. The first, “Today […] Died,” maps Koestenbaum’s treatment of the universal weight of death. The second, “Disgust, Shame, Identity,” attempts to recognize, after death, the arrangement of the self around and its affective reactions about its own being and its proximities. The final, “Bewildering Dreams,” investigates how trance bewilders dreams, and how dreams bewilder attachments in the context of trance poetics. Through close readings of The Pink Trance Notebooks and theoretical analyses, “\u27I / believe in ruin\u27: Trance, Affect, and Disorientation” attempts to show how Koestenbaum’s trance poetics disorient the attachments between self and world through their capacity to make and confuse the conceptual proximities that are based on the constant wandering of his fractured, floating attentions