Burge overcomes the problem of the impropriety of the metalinguistic description by treating names used as arguments as complex demonstratives (with a context-sensitive analysis; check Burge 1973 for the details), so he is properly speaking a "demonstrativist".
And when he warns about mistaking absolutism for principle, or substituting spectacle for politics, or treating name-calling as reasoned debate, we should consider that Obama probably intends that to apply to those to his Left as well as his Right.
5.10pm GMT Obama: 'We cannot treat name-calling as reasoned debate' Another plea for decency by Obama: We cannot mistake absolutism for principle, or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate.
We cannot mistake absolutism for principle, or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate," Obama said.
A single-subject multiple-baseline design across behaviors was used to treat naming of single objects across three different semantic categories in a 72-year-old individual with aphasia and apraxia of speech.
"We cannot mistake absolutism for principle, or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate," he said.
This is clearly a form of naturalism, since it treats names as appropriately correlated to the specific natures of the objects they name.
We cannot mistake absolutism for principle, or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate.
"We cannot mistake absolutism for principle, or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate," Obama said toward the end of his address.
Some critics, perhaps struggling to understand it, have resorted to treating her name as a skeleton key.
