Consent’s Revenge

Natural revenge over cytomegalovirus.

Natural revenge over cytomegalovirus ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Andrea Velardi UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA In this issue of Blood, Foley et al show that, in allogeneic hematopoietic transplant recipients, donor-derived natural killer (NK) cells respond to cytomegalovirus (CMV) by acquiring features that are reminiscen...

ADAMTS revenge on Eve?

Field on Revenge ∗

In a series of recent papers, 1 Hartry Field has proposed a novel class of solutions to the semantic paradoxes, and argued that the new solutions are 'revenge-immune'. He has argued, in particular, that by building on a sufficiently expressive language one can get a language which is able to express its own semantic theory, including its own truth predicates and any intelligible determinacy pre...

Revenge of The Given

ing from some or other opaque one; viz by ignoring the mode of representation in certain specifications of a representational content. There are, to be sure, two ways one might read an assertion that John believes the king of France is bored: according to the opaque construal, the speaker takes responsibility for the definite description, according to the transparent construal he doesn’t. (See ...

Solving the Paradoxes, Escaping Revenge

It is “the received wisdom” that any intuitively natural and consistent resolution of a class of semantic paradoxes immediately leads to other paradoxes just as bad as the first. This is often called the “revenge problem”. Some proponents of the received wisdom draw the conclusion that there is no hope of any natural treatment that puts all the paradoxes to rest: we must either live with the ex...