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As a mentor, he pushes you to be precise, forcing you to identify block quotes to prove what you are saying about a discourse or body of law.
Fictionalism about a discourse D is often seen as attractive precisely because it promises to get around otherwise potentially serious philosophical problems regarding D's ontology.
A second distinction is between hermeneutic and revolutionary fictionalism.[1] Hermeneutic fictionalism about a discourse D is a thesis about the actual nature of the discourse: according to hermeneutic fictionalism we actually do not aim at the literal truth but only appear or pretend to do so.
There are also distinctions to be drawn concerning what mental attitude the hermeneutic fictionalist about a discourse D says we have toward utterances made within D. As the name "fictionalism" indicates, the attitude is often said to be the attitude we have toward paradigmatic cases of fiction.
The hermeneutic fictionalist about a discourse D typically claims that there is a radical mismatch between on the one hand the assertoric contents of utterances of sentences of D (what is expressed in ordinary utterances of these sentences) and on the other hand the semantic contents of these sentences (what these sentences semantically express, in the contexts of utterance).
I said this, and I continued to soften my language and speak kindly and reasonably about my ideological attackers even when they had no shame at all about a discourse that began and ended at "that's disgusting, kill it".
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It was conscious, about starting a discourse while invoking rebellion and empowering for them.
First, according to fictionalism about a given discourse, the discourse is in important respects analogous to paradigmatic cases of fiction.
There are a range of vested interests (commercial, ideological, institutional, methodological, disciplinary), and the mere decision about standards becomes a discourse on "ontology" in the philosophical sense' (2004, xxii).
When Anne Barnard, a Times correspondent, asked him about extrajudicial detentions of peaceful demonstrators, Assad launched into a discourse about the administration of justice.
Methodology connotes a discourse about methods, i.e., an argumentation about the adequacy and appropriateness of particular combinations of research principles and procedures.
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