1. The Master Argument I will discuss the so-called “Master Argument” attributed to Diodorus Cronos in the light of some contemporary speculations on indexicals. In one version, this argument goes as follows: Premise 1. The past, relative to any time t, is necessary. Premise 2. The impossible cannot follow from the possible. Therefore, Conclusion. The possible is that which either is or will be...

repetition is one technique in language of poetry through which a word or phrase has various technical implications that impress the reader. the skillful poet, who can direct the word to be worthwhile and sensuous, is able to do that work.the value of this kind of repetition rises due to its implications where the poet owns verbal and emotional originality. if there is any defect in his talent,...

H amlet is reading a magazine. His eye is caught by an advertisement for the Great Dane sword. The ad pictures Fortinbras ra is i~~g the sword in battle. The ad proclaims, "10 Reasons Why the Great Dane Outperforms Its Competitors!" The ad continues, "Reason #I: Because of its sharper blade, the Great Dane kills fa~ter and more decisively." Hamlet, who had never heard of the Great Dane before, ...

The speech rate is one of the important prosodic parameters for the naturalness and intelligibility of an utterance. On the basis of the authors’ definition of the relative local speech rate, the present paper describes an analysis of the effects of changes in global speech rate, syntactic constituency and lexical accent on the local speech rate, using short utterances in which these factors ar...