What kind of thing is depression?

What Kind of Thing is a Language Faculty? A Critical Evaluation of OT Phonology

" A psychology (rationalist, empiricist, or whatever) needs to do more than just enunciate the laws it claims that mental processes obey. It also needs to explain what kind of a thing a mind could be such that those laws are true of it; which is once again to say that it needs to specify a mechanism. " (Jerry Fodor, 2000:17, italics in original) For the purposes of this article, OT will refer t...

What kind of “ is ” is Sahlins ’ “ is ” ?

cancer diagnosis disclosure: what is the right thing to do?

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What is this thing called somnolence?

What Kind of Production Is Construction?

Applicability of lean principles to construction might seem to require that construction’s differentiating characteristics be softened or explained away. This is the strategy employed by those who advocate making construction more like the manufacturing from which lean thinking originated. Following that line of thought, successive waves of implementation would leave ever smaller remainders tha...