In Korta (2015), I compare statements about the contingent future and what speech act theory calls commisive and directive speech acts, which also concer future events. I took their similarities to include a coincidence ...

The aim of this paper is to shed so me light on the meaning and use of the Basque reportative particle lomenl. We want to show thatl contrary to what most Basque dictionaries and grammars suggestl beyond its reportative ...

In "Literal meaning", Franfois Recanati argues for contextualism on utterance meaning and content, against literalism, indexicalism and syncretic views. A widely held assumption among participants in the debate is the ...

Zergatik eztabaidatzen dugu arteaz? Zertaz ari gara Mozart Bruckner baino hobea dela diogunean? Ba al du zentzurik esateak Sarrionandia poeta hobea dela Atxaga baino? Lertxundiren nobelak hobeak direla Saizarbitoriarenak ...

Two kinds of meanings are usually attributed to the Basque particle bide. On the one hand, it is said to indicate the indirect nature of the speaker’s evidence for the truth of the proposition at issue. According to this ...

We found a curious fact about the second of the three examples at the very beginning of Grice’s “Meaning” (1957). He introduces it as an example of natural meaning, but he never uses it again, neither in that paper nor in ...

The late Peter Kivy, author of multiple works in the philosophy of music and literature, and philosophy of art in general, got to know the Donostia and the University of the Basque Country. It was not directly through the ...