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John Rogers Searle (American English pronunciation: / s ɜːr l /; born July 31, 1932) [4] is an American philosopher widely noted for contributions to the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and social philosophy.
The Board of Administration succeeded to these duties and retained executive and administrative control over the home until the creation of the Department of Public Welfare in 1917. While under the jurisdiction of the Department of Public Welfare the home's name was changed to the Illinois Soldiers' and Sailors' Children's School in 1931. [4]
John Searle elaborated Russell's theory, suggesting that the proper name refers to a cluster of propositions that in combination pick out a unique referent. This was meant to deal with the objection by some critics of Russell's theory that a descriptive theory of meaning would make the referent of a name dependent on the knowledge that the ...
Academy of Our Lady, now the Children's Home Academy The schools merged into one co-educational school, Academy of Our Lady/Spalding Institute in 1973. [ 2 ] AOL/SI (also known as Academy/Spalding) was merged with Bergan High School to form Peoria Notre Dame High School in 1988, and the campus was closed at the end of the 1988–1989 school year.
The Children's Village was built in 1930-31 as housing for children aged 3–8, as the school aimed to divide its housing by age. C. Herrick Hammond, the Illinois State Architect at the time, designed the houses in the Tudor Revival style. Eight of the twelve new cottages were used for housing, while the other four were smaller and used for ...
Gov. J.B. Pritzker speaks at an event on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. ©Courtesy of Illinois.gov Pritzker names early childhood director A recently created Illinois state agency has a new leader ...
Sean McDonnell was first given the name John Winters Doe. He was found abandoned outside an Arlington Heights apartment complex on a cold day in 1983. Sean was just hours old when he was left ...
Causal theories of reference were born partially in response to the widespread acceptance of Russellian descriptive theories. Russell found that certain logical contradictions could be avoided if names were considered disguised definite descriptions (a similar view is often attributed to Gottlob Frege, mostly on the strength of a footnoted comment in "On Sense and Reference", although many ...