In his works the American philosopher Willard van Quine constantly rejects the analytic/synthetic distinction claiming that it is not justified. This happens because, in his opinion, human statements about the external world face the tribunal of experience not individually but as a corporate body, w…

Logical positivists claim that the whole of human knowledge can be reduced to analytic and synthetic sentences, and this means that the only possible knowledge is provided by science. Metaphysics is thus meaningless, because its sentences do not comply with the rules set forth by logical analysis of…

The aim of this paper is to provide some sketchy remarks on the post-empiricist phenomenon in philosophy of science, taking into account the themes of the relationships between language on the one side and reality on the other, and the parallel problem of the alleged elimination of metaphysics. Unli…

Në një intervistë të zhvilluar më 2008 e të botuar në gazetën “Shqip”1, pyetjes së bashkëbisedueses se “shumë lexues do të ishin kuriozë të dinin si ndodhi që një anglez si ju, të bëhej një nga përkthyesit më të njohur të shqipes”2, Robert Elsie i përgjigjet: “Nuk e mendoja kurrë që shqipja do të bë…

This work starts with the premise that the Albanian language is one of most ancient languages in the world and stands in the root of the common trunk of the Indo-European languages. The common pre-Indo-European origin is preserved in the present Albanian language almost in the same conditions that t…