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This article presents a dynamic account of topic and focus. A dynamic view on meanings as context change potentials (e.g. Stalnaker, Kamp, Heim, Groenendijk & Stokhof) will provide us with a substantial account of the dependence of focused answers on the context set up by their preceding questions. Questions pose conditions on the focal structure of their answers (Paul 1880) and can further res...

CASE SYNOPSIS In September 1996, a new evidence tool was used for the first time in a United States courtroom. Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) evidence was introduced in a Tennessee murder prosecution against twenty-seven-year-old Paul Ware. Without the mtDNA results there was only circumstantial evidence pointing to Ware as the suspect in the rape and murder of a fouryear-old girl. The defense claim...

A decade after the ‘‘Sokal Hoax,’’ Alan Sokal and Paul Boghossian still claim that postmodern arguments are incoherent attacks on reason and truth. However, both also continue to mischaracterize ‘‘constructivist’’ epistemology, to engage in highly problematic logical gymnastics to defend their own views, and to ignore changes in philosophy of science and science studies since 1996. I offer a br...

This article presents a dynamic account of questions and focus which combines the logical appeal of the partition theory of questions with the empirical strength of the structured meaning account of questions and focus. A dynamic analysis which treats meanings as context change potentials (e.g. Stalnaker, Kamp, Heim, Groenendijk & Stokhof) will provide us with a substantial account of the depen...

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Prior experience with conspecifics or essential resources, as well as physiological condition, can have important influences on an animal’s reproductive behavior. While effects of experience and physiological state (such as reproductive condition) are generally treated separately in theoretical discussions, they often interact. Noprevious study has attempted todistinguish effects of experience ...