The U.S. Senate has passed a bill aimed at pressuring the People’s Republic of China to raise the value of its national currency, the yuan, but the bill is expected to fail in the U.S. House of Representatives. Critics of Chinese trade policy argue that China is maintaining the yuan at a rate much lower […]
Read More“Theory which treats declarative sentences (as against commands and so on) as pictures of facts (if true) or possible facts (otherwise). A notable example of the theory is Tractatus (1921) by Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951). Each element in the sentence (bar certain connectives and so on) stands for something, be it an object or a quality or […]
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