潘煜林. / 據手稿本複印. / Thesis (M.A.)--香港中文大學, 1988. / Ju shou gao ben fu yin. / Includes bibliographical references: leaves 104-113. / Pan Yulin. / Thesis (M.A.)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 1988. / 序言 / Chapter 第一章 --- 分析與綜合 --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- 分析述句與綜合述句的性質 --- p.3 / Chapter 1.2 --- 分析綜合區分之應用 --- p.5 / Chapter 1.3 --- 分析性的界定 --- p.7 / Chapter 1.3.1 --- 語法系統對分析性的局部界定 --- p.10 / Chapter 1.3.2 --- 卡納普的純語意學 --- p.16 / Chapter 第二章 --- 奎因對分析性的批評 --- p.22 / Chapter 2.1 --- 定義 --- p.26 / Chapter 2.2 --- 恒值代換法 --- p.29 / Chapter 2.3 --- 人工語言規則 --- p.31 / Chapter 2.4 --- 檢證原則 --- p.3 / Chapter 2.5 --- 對奎因的批評之回應 --- p.37 / Chapter 第三章 --- 普特面論分析性 --- p.46 / Chapter 3.1 --- 律則羅聚概念 --- p.47 / Chapter 3.2 --- 自然科學中的律則羅聚概念 --- p.48 / Chapter 3.3 --- 幾何真理 --- p.53 / Chapter 3.4 --- 對普特面的批評之回應 --- p.56 / Chapter 3.4.1 --- 純幾何學與物理幾何學之區別 --- p.56 / Chapter 第四章 --- 克里普克論分析性 --- p.65 / Chapter 4.1 --- 同一性述句的性質 --- p.69 / Chapter 4.2 --- 專名的分析 --- p.72 / Chapter 4.3 --- 固定意指項（rigid designator） --- p.74 / Chapter 4.4 --- 先驗適然述句 --- p.79 / Chapter 4.5 --- 後驗必然述句 --- p.84 / Chapter 第五章 --- 總結 --- p.92 / 注釋 --- p.96 / 參考書目 --- p.104

In this thesis I will defend analyticity. Quine has criticized analyticity. To answer Quine’s challenge, P. Boghossian distinguishes metaphysical analyticity and epistemological analyticity. He argues that epistemological analyticity exists while metaphysical analyticity does not. But, T. Williamson further rejects epistemological analyticity. In this thesis, I will defend both metaphysical analyticity and epistemological analyticity. In chapter I, I will generally define and discuss four conceptions of analyticity. I will show that there are different readings of each conception of analyticity. In chapter II, I will criticize K. Glüer, Hofmann & Horvath, and G. Russell’s arguments. They attempt to defend metaphysical analyticity. I will show that their arguments fail. To answer Quine’s challenge and to salve analyticity, Boghossian resorts to implicit definition and Glock suggests a normative view of analyticity. In chapter III, I will argue that their efforts fail. In chapter IV, I will defend metaphysical analyticity in a new perspective. The new perspective holds that metaphysical analyticity is true in virtue of concepts rather than meanings. I will argue that, analytic propositions are about the logical relations of realities. And these logical relations are the projections of our conceptual systems. So, the truth of analytic statements is completely determined by concepts they contain. And then, in chapter V, I will explain how concepts could completely determine the truth of analytic statements. Basing on some theories of concepts, I will show that the truth of analytic statements could be explained by means of the structure of concepts. In chapter VI, I will defend epistemological analyticity. T. Williamson has rejected epistemological analyticity. I will argue that Williamson’s argument fails. I will show that his definitions of analyticity are improper. / published_or_final_version / Philosophy / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of St Andrews, October 2008.

劉伍華 = An interpretation of the nature of metaphysics : a discussion on philosophical statements / Lau Ng Wah. / Thesis (M.A.)--香港中文大學硏究院哲學部. / Manuscript. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 162-166). / Liu Wuhua = An interpretation of the nature of metaphysics : a discussion on philosophical statements / Lau Ng Wah. / Thesis (M.A.)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue yan jiu yuan zhe xue bu. / Chapter 第一章 --- 緒論 ──本文論述的步驟、方式與目的 --- p.1 / Chapter 第二章 --- 邏輯實証論(Logical Positivism)之反形上學理論 --- p.9 / Chapter 一 --- 在邏輯實証論之前的近代西方哲學家對傳統形上學的批評 --- p.9 / Chapter 二 --- 邏輯實証論反對形上學的主要理由 --- p.11 / Chapter 三 --- 「驗証原則」及其問題 --- p.16 / Chapter 四 --- 卡納普(R. Carnap)通過對語言的邏輯分析(logical Analysis)而把形上學問題消解了 --- p.29 / Chapter 五 --- 哥柏爾斯頓(F. Copleston)的不同意見 --- p.39 / Chapter 六 --- 驗証原則的邏輯地位 (logical status)問題 --- p.42 / Chapter 第三章 --- 柯林活(R .G .Collingwood)對形上學的闡釋(interpretation) 及對邏輯實証論的批評 --- p.55 / Chapter 一 --- 小引 --- p.55 / Chapter 二 --- 純粹存有(pure being) 不能作為科學的研究對象 --- p.56 / Chapter 三 --- 形上學是一種有關「最後預設」或「絶對性預設」(absolute presupposition) 的探究之學問 --- p.62 / Chapter 四 --- 以康德所論的因果律作為「絶對性預設」的說明 --- p.71 / Chapter 五 --- 對柯林活理論的檢討 --- p.95 / Chapter 第四章 --- 形上學理論是對語言革新用法(linguistic innovations)的一個建議 --- p.107 / Chapter 一 --- 常識語句跟形上學語句的分歧──摩爾 (G.E . Moore)對傳統哲學中一些哲學性語句的貶斥 --- p.107 / Chapter 二 --- 形上學是日常語言的異用的表現 --- p.116 / Chapter 三 --- 形上學所具有的特殊功能 --- p.149 / 參考書目 --- p.162

Thesis (M. A.)--University of Alberta, 2009. / Title from pdf file main screen (viewed on Nov. 16, 2009). "A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, Department of Philosophy, University of Alberta." Includes bibliographical references.

The past few years the researcher spent a lot of time to reflect on the current state of the church, the desires of God for it and the growing gap inbetween. Statistical research has shown that the church, worldwide, tends to have a stagnant and declining growth. While the world’s population is rapidly growing, Christianity represents a constant figure of 34% towards the population over the last hundred years (Britannica Encyclopedia Online 2000). In America the overall attendance at Christian churches has slumped (Barna 1998:15). If the current growth tendency continues in The Netherlands, the churchless figure in 2020 can rise to 73% (Noordegraaf 1999:14). In South Africa church membership is declining in most of the denominations (Froise 1996:18, Meyer 1997:5-16, Roodt 2000:50-52). Why does this negative growth tendency exist in most churches? The researcher suggests that one of the reasons is that the typical congregation’s ministries is structured and practiced in such ways that it prevents effective ministry to people. What can be done? Through survey in this study, the researcher wants to show that the church must rediscover it’s sole purpose as God intended it. Through the process of church analysis and assessment, the congregation can determine what it’s current state is according to God’s ideal. In this way the congregation can identify his strong points, limitations and problems. If these factors are determined, the congregation can begin to plan actions to change the current ministry practices towards the ideal situation. In this process, the congregation develops as a spiritually transforming community in the world, as God had intended for the church to be. The focus of the study lies towards this process of church analysis and also attempts to contribute in a practical way. / Dr. B.J. Geyser

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--Cologne. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 338-343).

Thesis--Wisconsin. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 196-209).

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