Axiomathes 30 (1):69-90 (2020)
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The word “as” enables one to make contexts and aspects of things explicit while attributing properties or descriptions to them. For example “John is rational as a mathematician”; “John is irrational as a driver.” This paper examines the idea according to which all propositions containing “as” should be targeted as potential inferences about the subject; as for the examples given—about John. If the inference is valid—the conception in question holds—one can get rid of “as.” I argue against that view by bringing up several contexts in which “as” is not supposed to express an inference. On this basis I come up with a different typology which does justice, I believe, to ordinary as well as philosophical uses of the little word at stake.
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