Abstract Gillian Russell has recently proposed counterexamples to such elementary argument forms as Conjunction Introduction (e.g. ‘Snow is white. Grass green. Therefore, snow white and grass green’) Identity white’). These purported involve expressions that are sensitive linguistic context—for example, a sentence which true when it appears alone but false embedded in larger sentence. If they g...

Introduction Nāgārjuna (c. 200 CE) is the founder of the Madhyamaka school of Buddhist philosophy, and easily, after the Buddha himself, the most influential philosopher in the Mahāyāna Buddhist tradition. Despite the great consensus on his philosophical and doctrinal importance, there is little consensus, either in the canonical Buddhist and non-Buddhist literature of India, Tibet and East Asi...

The increasingly pluralistic character of modern societies has led to questions, not only about the proper use of ethnic-group terms, but also about the correct semantic analysis of them. Here I argue that ethnic-group terms are analogous to other rigid designators whose extension is fixed in the way suggested by a causal theory of reference. My view accommodates precisely those scenarios of co...

Abstract This article explores the theme of nihilism from perspective post-continental philosophy by focusing on semiotics and information theory question “meaning” at stake between them. Nihilism is characterised here as an avatar counter-Enlightenment tradition. Post-continental defined a positive revaluation reason, science, technology, which were critiqued for their nihilistic effects key c...

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) educators are often confronted with learners who use their new critical appraisal skills to dismiss much of the medical literature. Does this cynical attitude of "clever nihilism" affect educational outcomes, such that educators need to tailor their curricula to these learners? The authors proposed that this critical skepticism may be an intermediate developmental ...