The purpose of this paper is to defend a conception of language that does not rely on linguistic meanings, and use it to address the Sorites and Liar paradoxes. I would like to contrast two different answers to the following question: What sort of semantic information must a subject associate with the members of a language's basic lexicon in order to master the language? Both answers will be a ...

Relying on insights from CAS (Critical Animal Studies), especially Vasile Stanescu’s and Robert C. Jones’s recent work locavorism, the studies of localism (by Andrew Stables, David Hess, Timothy O’Riordan Doreen Massey, inter alia), paper presents a reading Olga Tokarczuk’s 2009 novel Drive Your Plow Over Bones Dead which highlights conflict between locavorism one side, universal animal rights ...

a considerable part of the current thought has allocated to various debates on the “globalization age” and “different globalizations”. globalization as a phenomenon which has tightened social, cultural and political relations is deepening and expanding in a daily manner. despite of this generalism, a kind of exceptionalism in form localist theories has been remarked in the globalization context...

In this document, the Commission seeks comment on how to amend its rules to implement certain provisions of the Local Community Radio Act of 2010 (‘‘LCRA’’) that are not already the subject of Commission action. It also proposes changes to its rules intended to promote the low power FM service’s localism and diversity goals, reduce the potential for licensing abuses, and clarify certain rules.