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- Strawson is a surname. People with the surname include: Galen Strawson (born 1952), English philosopher and literary critic John Strawson, British writer...
- Sir Peter Frederick Strawson FBA (/ˈstrɔːsən/; 23 November 1919 – 13 February 2006) was an English philosopher who spent most of his career at the University...
- Galen John Strawson (/ˈstrɔːsən/; born 1952) is a British analytic philosopher and literary critic who works primarily on philosophy of mind, metaphysics...
- semantics, Strawson entailment is a variant of the concept of entailment which is insensitive to presupposition failures. Formally, a sentence P Strawson-entails...
- John Strawson is an author and law professor at the University of East London School of Law, where he teaches International law and Middle East Studies...
- DE in a special way. He defines a notion of Strawson downward entailingness based on the concept of Strawson entailment, where entailments can be checked...
- has not been without its critics. In particular, the philosophers P. F. Strawson and Keith Donnellan have given notable, well known criticisms of the theory...
- of language Peter Strawson (1919–2006) advocated the use of the term "statement" in sense (2) in preference to proposition. Strawson used the term "statement"...
- opposes, and provides a meaningful alternative to, Strawson's interpretation. Allison argues that Strawson and others misrepresent Kant by emphasising what...
- propositions, and that they should be discarded in favor of sentences. P. F. Strawson, on the other hand, advocated for the use of the term "statement". In Aristotelian...