Alexander Pruss's Blog

Meeting the minimum requirements is always good enough. [This is a variant on XXXIV . There are times when we say things like "The min...

It is usual to distinguish between a piece of language and its context. This distinction is, I think, bogus. Whether "flies...

In English, the pitch and rate at which one speaks typically do not affect the types of the tokens that one is using. Whether you sa...

We can take items in the world up into language. An easy, though very unlikely, example would be if I came across a bunch of rocks randomly...

To resume my attempt to erase the distinction between utterance and context , I shall argue that to judge whether a sentence is syntacticall...

We learn from Frankfurt counterexamples to the Principle of Alternate Possibility that we should not use counterfactuals and nomic modality ...

This is the first in what may be a series of posts developing a view of language that erases the distinction between language and context. T...