'Indeed', 'Really', 'In Fact', 'Actually'

Interjections, such as those in the title, together with a few similar devices, when qualifying clauses expressing truth-conditions, or that such conditions have been satisfied, are entitled ‘force-amplifiers’. Disputes between deflationary and inflationary truth-theories sometimes are assumed to turn on the supposed pivotal role that these devices are construed as playing in the interpretation of the clauses they qualify. I argue that they are not dispensable add-ons. Moreover, even in their absence the relevant clauses giving truth-conditions permit interpretations that aren’t deflationary-friendly. I maintain that this is a significant fact about the use to which writers put them. I then defend, a thesis about force-amplifiers that makes them indispensable to the interpretation of the relevant clauses, and that renders certain moves unavailable to popular deflationist treatments

A critical assessment on the efficacy of Kenyan legislation in addressing of internet child pornography

A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of the degree of Bachelor of LawsThe development on the internet has brought about entirely impenetrable conduits for distribution of illegal pornography. Individuals are collecting and sharing Child Pornography images through virtually every type of Internet technology. The internet provides a uniquely safe, easily accessible, and supportive context for posting, trading and collecting Child Pornography. This paper seeks to determine how effectively the Sexual Offences Act and Children's Act can regulate Child Pornography in the environment of the Internet. The research done on this paper is from online content as little to no information on this subject has been documented in books. The content is also largely foreign as there is very little information on the subject in Kenya as it is still a developing area of law. This research makes a comparative analysis between the United Kingdom and the United States and seeks to make recommendations for Kenya based on the best practices of these Nations

How to grow an urban forest

202020 Vision have released a ten-step guide on How to Grow an Urban Forest. The guide aims to help councils save money, time and share practical knowledge. Working with the City of Melbourne and a number of of other local governments 202020Vision have provided this information as a free activity-based workbook – and accompanying it with practical face-to-face workshops – to provide the insights, expertise, resources, support and thinking to help you create your own approach to urban forestry that is not only endorsed by your council, but is also able to be implemented in a way that helps achieve more and better green space in your local council area

Tunnel Vision

When Wittgenstein was young, he wrote a small book intended to solve all of philosophy’s problems with language, called Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922). As an intellectual piece, the Tractatus is a strange beast, written by a student with the voice of a professor. Its process of creation resembles that of a fictional piece: the author is struck by inspiration, labours in solitude, and then translates the vision onto paper. Yet the Tractatus was not meant to be a work of fiction, rather to have the final say in a conceptual debate about the relation between language and world. This little book was meant to be the end of all philosophical conversation, the final nail in its coffin. Written outside the university, the Tractatus had the ambition of ending the academic conversation in philosophy, while it refused to engage with that conversation. This was not fair-play on any account. The Tractatus was never intended to be an academic text; it had no footnotes, no references to other authors. It was a vision of language that Wittgenstein had shared with the world

Human Rights violations in Belarus : how to forgive, but not forget

Paper presented at the Conference on Christian Perspectives on Human Dignity and Humans Rights held in Wuppertal (Germany) online from 9–12 April 202