A SUPPOSED QUOTATION FROM KANT

From Kant to Fichte1

Few periods in the history of philosophy manifest the degree of dynamism and historical complexity that characterize early post-Kantian philosophy. The reasons for this special character of so-called " classical German philosophy " are no doubt themselves quite complex. Institutional and political circumstances certainly played an important role. The end of the eighteenth century marks a point ...

Does “‘Quotation’” Quote “Quotation”?

Getting a precise and accurate understanding of the mechanism of quotation is broadly important to contemporary philosophy, impacting on numerous research areas, and it’s deeply important, being foundational to truth-theoretic semantics (Saka 1998, 1991). It is gratifying, therefore, to see an upsurge in quotation studies that includes at least nine doctoral dissertations in the past fifteen ye...

From Kant to entwined Naturalism

A Lexicon of French Quotation Verbs for Automatic Quotation Extraction

Quotation extraction is an important information extraction task, especially when dealing with news wires. Quotations can be found in various configurations. In this paper, we focus on direct quotations introduced by a parenthetical clause, headed by a “quotation verb”. Our study is based on a large French news wire corpus from the Agence France-Presse. We introduce and motivate an analysis at ...

A Garbled Quotation

" While the microscope possesses a certain scientific value in malaria, which is still indefinite, there is no doubt that it has acquired a very distinct commercial value in the profession ; indeed Ross has gone so far as to state that ' the success of Imperialism in the coming century will depend largely on the microscope in malaria,' notwithstanding that the science of malarial parasitology h...