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That can be done, Quine seems to presuppose, merely by taking an appropriately serious attitude to the discourse in question.
But they also suggest a more general lesson: fictionalist theses can often be undercut by closer attention to the semantics of the discourse in question.
In other words, the discourse in question must be presented as 'normal' and correct and discourses that run counter to it as false and abnormal.
The unity amongst all Strawson's proposals is that the response to scepticism is never the production of a proof or demonstration based on a level of thought external and prior to the discourse in question.
Rather, they are to be answered by decisions, decisions to adopt or not based on pragmatic criteria regarding the efficiency, fruitfulness and utility of the framework with respect to the aims of the discourse in question.
One fictionalist reply to these concerns is to say that it is only for argument's sake that she adopts a conservative view of the semantic contents of the sentences of the discourse in question.
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The discourse community in question is that of engineering.
Alexei V. Markarkin, an analyst at the Center for Political Technologies, said there were signs of a loosening in Russian public discourse, in which "those questions which were too dangerous to discuss can now be discussed".
In the present study, the fronto-central positivity appeared when semantically mismatching extraneous material concurred with semantically correct sentences (i.e., syntactic condition), introducing a new element into the semantic frame, possibly increasing the complexity of the discourse model of the sentence in question.
Rousseau had by that time completed a second Discourse in response to a question set by the Academy of Dijon: "What is the origin of the inequality among men and is it justified by natural law?" In response to that challenge he produced a masterpiece of speculative anthropology.
In this discourse the question is, if moving away is a suitable adaptation strategy, or an acknowledgement that adaptation has failed.
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