A basic idea of the transformational tradition is that constituents move. More recently, there has been a trend towards the view that all features are lexical features. And in recent “minimalist” grammars, structure building operations are assumed to be feature driven. A simple grammar formalism with these properties is presented here and briefly explored. Grammars in this formalism can define ...

Minimalism pursues the following agenda: For a given robotics task, nd the minimal con guration of resources required to solve the task. Thus, minimalism attempts to reduce the resource signature for a task, in the same way that (say) Stealth technology decreases the radar signature of an aircraft. Minimalism is interesting because doing task A without resource B proves that B is somehow inesse...

Abstract Evidence is often taken to be “normative” for doxastic agents. What accounts the normativity of evidence? According view that I'll call “evidential minimalism”, there a close connection between strong evidence truth p and normative reason believe p: either itself belief, or gives rise such when certain other minimal conditions are met. In this paper, I argue against evidential minimali...