Giulia Felappi has been awarded an AHRC Networking grant for her project The Nature of the Objects of Thought and Assertion, in collaboration with Bryan Pickel. The project's network will explore the nature of the things we think, fear, hope, assert, etc... (3/5)

Linguists, can you explain exceptional case marking? In my brain the clause ‘her happy’ is in a position that wants an accusative in ‘believe her happy’ and this filters down to the first node that can admit that cae marking. But I think my brain is oversimplifying.

Glasgow half marathon

Some good finds as Glasgow sheds its excess books. Joe Slater

When Bach (1976) speaks of the 'configurational hypothesis' and contrasts it with the 'rule-to-rule' assumption, is the configurational hypothesis just weak compositionality?

In the 70s, Partee suggested that compositionality can provide further support for syntactically analysing 'the boy who lives in the park' as [the [boy [who lives in the park] ] ] rather than as [ [the boy] [who lives in the park] ]. Is that argument still considered good?

Autocorrect of the day: 'are logical constructions' => 'urological constructions'.

Why don’t contemporary philosophers care about the important questions the ancients did such as how to be a good person and whether it’s immoral to eat beans because they are our reincarnated ancestors?

Why does the NYT describe St Louis Style Pizza as 'Chicago thin-crust' pizza? cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/102397…

“Jeans speaks of ‘the universe’ as ‘indifferent’ or ‘actively hostile to life like our own’. But indifference or hostility can be significantly predicated only of living beings.” —Susan Stebbing, Philosophy and the Physicists (p. 15)

Ok, I was impressed by this. Chat GPT says that a conflicting measurement might not be sufficient to refute a theory because of the possibility of measurement error.

Did the kids (people under 30) know what cheat codes are? Like do they know where the expression ‘cheat code’ comes from.

I make some pretty biscuits.

Can anyone think of an example from the verbal disputes literature or the conceptual engineering literature about whether a given piece is a work of art? .

If the difference were very small, I would simply do the thing that does not break a promise rather than the thing that maximises utility.