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Chomskyan Arguments Against Truth-Conditional Semantics Based on Variability and Co-predication
In this paper I try to show that semantics can explain word-to-world relations and that sentences can have meanings that determine truth-conditions. Critics like Chomsky typically maintain that only speakers denote, i.e., only speakers, by using words in one way or another, represent entities or events in the world. However, according to their view, individual acts of denotations are not explained just by virtue of speakers’ semantic knowledge. Against this view, I will hold that, in the typical cases considered, semantic knowledge can account for the denotational uses of words of individual speakers
Glueball-Meson Mixing
Calculations in unquenched QCD for the scalar glueball spectrum have
confirmed previous results of Gluodynamics finding a glueball at ~ 1750 MeV. I
analyze the implications of this discovery from the point of view of
glueball-meson mixing at the light of the experimental scalar sprectrum.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figure
AdS gravity and glueball spectrum
The glueball spectrum has attracted much attention since the formulation of
Quantum Chromodynamics. Different approaches give very different results for
their masses. We revisit the problem from the perspective of the AdS/CFT
correspondence.Comment: 4 pages, no figures, 5 table
Topology in the SU(Nf) chiral symmetry restored phase of unquenched QCD and axion cosmology
We investigate the topological properties of unquenched on the basis of
numerical results of simulations at fixed topological charge, recently reported
by Borsanyi et al.. We demonstrate that their results for the mean value of the
chiral condensate at fixed topological charge are inconsistent with the
analytical prediction of the large volume expansion around the saddle point,
and argue that the most plausible explanation for the failure of the saddle
point expansion is a vacuum energy density -independent at high
temperatures, but surprisingly not too high , a result which
would imply a vanishing topological susceptibility, and the absence of all
physical effects of the axial anomaly at these temperatures. We also
show that under a general assumption concerning the high temperature phase of
, where the symmetry is restored, the analytical prediction
for the chiral condensate at fixed topological charge is in very good agreement
with the numerical results of Borsanyi et al., all effects of the axial anomaly
should disappear, the topological susceptibility and all the
-derivatives of the vacuum energy density vanish and the theory becomes
-independent at any in the infinite volume limit.Comment: 18 pages, no figures, typos added in section 4, small changes in the
text and some references adde
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