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  • The search for new axioms 
    Koellner, Peter, 1969- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)
    Abstract The independence results in set theory invite the search for new and justified axioms. In Chapter 1 I set the stage by examining three approaches to justifying the axioms of standard set theory (stage theory, ...
  • Seeing through opacity : a defense of the Russellian view of propositional attitudes 
    Clapp, Leonard Jay (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994)
  • Segmental alternations and metrical theory 
    Vaysman, Olga (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
    This dissertation focuses on phonological alternations that are influenced or constrained by word-internal prosody, i.e. prominence and foot structure, and what these alternations can tell us about metrical theory. Detailed ...
  • Self-identification and self-knowledge 
    Kwon, Hongwoo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
    The traditional view has it that self-locating beliefs are distinctive in that they have distinctive contents. Against this, I claim that the distinctive element of self-locating beliefs should be placed outside contents. ...
  • The semantics and metaphysics of contingent identity 
    Gray, Anthony E., 1968- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
  • Semantics and phonology in syntax 
    Csirmaz, Aniko (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
    In this thesis I argue that morphology should be allowed to interpret not only the information provided by the syntactic component, but also compositional semantic properties. This conception of grammar requires morphology ...
  • The semantic significance of referential intentions 
    Reimer, Margaret (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992)
  • The semantics of the English progressive 
    Kearns, Katherine Susan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991)
  • The semantics of the future 
    Copley, Bridget, Lynn, 1974- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
    Natural languages use a number of different methods to refer to future eventualities: among them are futurates, as in (la), and futures, as in (lb) and (c). (1) a. The Red Sox (are) play(ing) the Yankees tomorrow. b. We'll ...
  • A semantic theory of the English auxiliary system. 
    Woisetschlaeger, Erich Friedrich (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1977)
  • Semnantic and syntactic aspects of romance sentential complementation 
    Rochette, Anne (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988)
  • Sentential complementation in modern Greek 
    Ingria, Robert Joseph Peter (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981)
  • Sets and their sizes 
    Katz, Fredric M (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981)
  • Siding with Euthyphro : response-dependence, essentiality, and the individuation of ordinary objects 
    Sveinsdóttir, Ásta Kristjana (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
    (cont.) essentiality. I start with our practices of engaging in thought experiments about the essences of things and show how my account vindicates those practices.
  • The significance of fairness/ 
    Hosein, Adam (Adam Omar) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
    This dissertation is about fairness and the role it plays in political and personal morality. Specifically, I investigate when it is appropriate to rely on considerations of fairness to draw substantive conclusions about ...
  • The significance of intuitions of contingency for the mind-body problem 
    Feldmann, Judith M. (Judith Mary) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997)
  • The significance of metaphysics 
    Graham, Andrew J. (Andrew John) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
    In this thesis, I investigate the nature of metaphysics and the role it plays in our broader theoretical pursuits. In doing so, I defend it against various criticisms and offer a novel conception of why metaphysical disputes ...
  • Silence, speech, and responsibility 
    Maitra, Ishani, 1974- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
    Pornography deserves special protections, it is often said, because it qualifies as speech; therefore, no matter what we think of it, we must afford it the protections that we extend to most speech, but don't extend to ...
  • Situating language and consciousness 
    Almotahari, Mahrad (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
    Language and consciousness enrich our lives. But they are rare commodities; most creatures are language-less and unconscious. This dissertation is about the conditions that distinguish the haves from the have-nots. The ...
  • Situations and individuals 
    Elbourne, Paul, 1971- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
    I argue that definite descriptions, pronouns and proper names share one common syntax and semantics, basically that of definite descriptions. E-type pronouns are argued to be definite articles that take NP complements ...
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