Many if not all Analytic Philosophers in the first seventy years or so of Analytic Philosophy thought that enquiry into concepts had a significant place in philosophy. This is not a view shared by most contemporary Analytic Philosophers. One reason for this change in attitude is Quine’s famous critique of analyticity. Enquiry into concepts had been thought to depend on a satisfactory notion of analyticity. Many thought that Quine had shown that no such notion is available. It is true that the traditional model of Conceptual Analysis operated with the notion of analyticity. The reductive project of Conceptual Analysis was supposed to issue in analytic truths that were necessarily true and knowable a priori. Furthermore the necessity of these truths, and the fact that they were knowable a priori were accounted for in terms of their analyticity. I argue that there is an alternative model of Conceptual Enquiry which does not require a notion of analyticity to do the work it does. I argue that the notion of analyticity is not central to the style of philosophising of the Ordinary Language Philosophers. Major ‘Ordinary Language Philosophers’ did not appeal to the notion of analyticity in describing or accounting for their work. Neither is such a notion required to account for their work. The upshot is that one ought not to conclude that enquiry into concepts is redundant for philosophical purposes on account of there being no satisfactory notion of analyticity.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 1995. / Title from title page screen, viewed May 2, 2006. Dissertation Committee: John A. Dossey (chair), Stephen H. Friedberg, Beverly S. Rich, Kenneth Strand, Jane O. Swafford. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 93-97) and abstract. Also available in print.

This study applies major principles of cognitive linguistics to the task of developing a novel model of the bilingual dictionary called the dictionary for productive comprehension (DPC). Based on conceptual analysis and coherent network representation of entry words, multi-word expressions, and constructions, the DPC provides access to the conventional linguistic knowledge of native speakers. In seeing linguistic units as contentful symbolic forms, the DPC is designed with a view of language as a lexicogrammatical continuum. By constructing the bilingual dictionary at the intersections of the two languages’ concepts under clearly specified conditions of their neutralization, it is given theoretical status. However, the main purport of this study is in the realm of applied lexicography. Among its tasks are: operationalizing conceptual analysis by establishing heuristically viable discovery procedures; working out guidelines for converting conceptual networks into the microstructure of dictionary entries, and for organizing its macrostructure as a natural-language thesaurus of lexicalized and lexicogrammatical concepts; laying a foundation for selecting and locating MWEs, proverbial expressions and constructions in a principled way, and suggesting approaches to organizing the constructicon, the part of the dictionary that contains schematic constructions. The DPC model offers effective remedies for the two major faults of the conventional bilingual dictionary, i.e. unrecognizability of the SL entry as a coherent whole by the TL user, and, consequently, inability to suggest precise cognitive orientations for the user's own production of an equivalent TL text. It proves that the bilingual dictionary can be something other than an inventory of disparate senses, a boundless set of translation equivalents, or an eclectic mixture of the two. By maintaining conceptual integrity of linguistic units, DPC affords the user a means of grasping the essence of a foreign word, MWE, or construction as if they were units of one’s native speech, as well as a generative potential with regard to translating into the TL. At the same time, by making conventional linguistic knowledge of the native speaker explicit, DPC serves the purpose of a learner’s dictionary.

Submitted by Neusa Fagundes (neusa.fagundes@unioeste.br) on 2018-02-15T13:15:48Z No. of bitstreams: 2 Aline_Silva2017.pdf: 2700156 bytes, checksum: bee0ace03add52197dcc0da18998b458 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-02-15T13:15:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Aline_Silva2017.pdf: 2700156 bytes, checksum: bee0ace03add52197dcc0da18998b458 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-02-10 / Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq / The history and philosophy of science can be used as subsidies to improve science teaching, including biology. For this improvement to occur, it is necessary to carry out researches to raise the historical aspects of concepts elaboration related to the scientific content present in schools and also the materials to support teachers, like textbooks. For that purpose, a study, from the 1950s to the present day on the conceptual development of genotype and phenotype, was carried out to provide theoretical subsidies for the analysis of these terms in high school biology textbooks. This research is justified by the need to evaluate how the concepts are presented in textbooks, since there is a need to adapt and revise the concepts according to the academic research notes, and also how the mere "knowledge used" is transposed to the "knowledge taught". The general objective of this study was to analyze how the concepts of genotype and phenotype are introduced in textbooks for basic education system. To find out the following questions were asked: Are the concepts of genotype and phenotype presented and transposed to textbooks respecting the scientific knowledge of each era? Is there historical recurrence in these materials of how the definition of these concepts came to be? The methodology is qualitative in nature, comprising data content analysis, which consists of three steps: pre-analysis, coding and categorization. The process of analyzing didactic transposition was carried out according to the following elements: Transformation Outsourcing, Internal Transformation, knowledge programmability, context-bound, biological aging and aging moral distance, textualization of knowledge, didactic creations and the old/new dialectic. Analyzing the results it was evidenced that the concepts of genotype and phenotype present in the respective textbooks did not follow the understanding of the scientific community of each era. Generally, the delay of the didactic transposition occurs, with respect to the development of the scientific knowledge. It is understood that part of this delay is acceptable, since it is very difficult for textbooks to be edited at the time of scientific research. However, authors and editors need to be concerned with the updates that emerge from scientific production, and care must be taken to ensure that there is no distancing of decades between the concepts presented in the teaching materials in relation to the compressions accepted by the scientific community. Regarding to analysis of the elements of the didactic transposition, it was noticed that the books usually present the contents of genotype and phenotype in a synthetic way, which may make it impossible to develop the scientific literacy of the students, leading them to see the genetics in a deterministic way, without considering the internal and external interferences for the constitution of the phenotype. / A história e a filosofia da ciência podem ser utilizadas como subsídios para melhorar o ensino das ciências, dentre essas, a biologia. Para que essa melhora aconteça, é necessário realizar pesquisas cujo objetivo consista em levantar os aspectos históricos da construção dos conceitos relacionados aos conteúdos científicos apresentados em sala de aula e também nos materiais de apoio aos professores, como o livro didático. Com esse intuito, foi realizado um estudo, desde a década de 1950 até os dias atuais acerca do desenvolvimento conceitual de genótipo e fenótipo, para fornecer subsídios teóricos para a análise desses termos em livros didáticos de Biologia do Ensino Médio. Essa pesquisa se justifica pela necessidade de avaliar como os conceitos estão apresentados nos livros didáticos, uma vez que existe a necessidade de adequação e revisão dos conceitos conforme os apontamentos da pesquisa acadêmica, e ainda como são transpostos esses conhecimentos do “saber sábio” para o “saber a ensinar”. O objetivo geral desta pesquisa foi analisar como os conceitos de genótipo e fenótipo são apresentados em livros didáticos destinados à educação básica. Para tal fim, realizamos os seguintes questionamentos: Os conceitos de genótipo e fenótipo são apresentados e transpostos para os livros didáticos respeitando os conhecimentos científicos de cada época? Apresenta-se recorrência histórica nesses materiais de como se chegou a definição desses conceitos? A metodologia é de natureza qualitativa, compreendendo a análise de conteúdo dos dados, que consiste em três etapas: pré-análise, codificação e categorização. O processo de análise da transposição didática foi realizado conforme os seguintes elementos: dessincretização do saber, despersonalização do saber, programabilidade do saber, publicidade do saber, envelhecimento moral/biológico, finalidade na textualização do saber, criações didáticas e a dialética antigo/novo. Ao analisar os resultados evidenciou-se que os conceitos de genótipo e fenótipo presentes nos respectivos livros não acompanharam a compreensão da comunidade científica de cada época. Geralmente, ocorre a demora da transposição didática, com relação ao desenvolvimento do conhecimento científico. Entendemos que parte dessa demora é aceitável, visto que, é muito difícil os livros didáticos serem editados no momento imediato ao desenvolvimento das pesquisas científicas. No entanto, os autores e editores precisam se preocupar com as atualizações que emergem da produção científica, e cuidar para que não haja distanciamento de décadas entre os conceitos apresentados nos materiais didáticos em relação às compressões aceitas pela comunidade científica. Quanto à análise dos elementos da transposição didática, percebemos que os livros geralmente possuem apresentação dos conteúdos de genótipo e fenótipo de uma forma sintética, o que pode impossibilitar o desenvolvimento da alfabetização científica dos alunos, levando-os a ver a genética de forma determinista, sem considerar as interferências internas e externas para a constituição do fenótipo.

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