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    It’s likely that Notre Dame will return to a policy of requiring GREs next year (this year they’re officially optional…

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Richard Marshall interviews Charles Travis (Porto)…

…at 3:16 AM.  An interesting bit:

One reason I don’t see Frege as a philosopher of language is that he explicitly says that is not his topic. It seems to me that for a long time now (probably since the Vienna Circle, but I suspect much longer than that) philosophers have tended to see too much in common between language and logic, as if language (if properly done) would just be a sort of less topic-neutral language. This, I think, is responsible for huge misperceptions as to the shape of philosophical problems.

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