Bilateral Theory Research Articles

Hubungan Bilateral Singapura - Timor Leste Pasca Penolakan Keanggotaan Timor Leste di ASEAN

This study aims to analyze the relationship between Singapore and Timor Leste in the aftermath of Singapore's rejection of Timor Leste in ASEAN membership. This research was conducted using qualitative methods and also using Regionalism Theory and Bilateral Theory. The results of this study indicate that there is a cooperative relationship between Singapore and Timor Leste, although Singapore refuses to accept Timor Leste who wants to join the ASEAN Organization. This of course becomes very difficult for Timor Leste because ASEAN is Timor Leste's hope to be able to develop its country with the help of ASEAN. However, Singapore feels burdened because the requirements to enter ASEAN membership have not been fulfilled by Timor Leste. Moreover, Singapore is the main pillar of the economy in ASEAN

Price and Rumfitt on Rejective Negation and Classical Logic

We are, according to Humberstone (2000), in the midst of a revival-a revival of rejective negation.1 An account of negation, the revivalists tell us, should be given in terms of a speech act of rejection-a speech act that is 'on all fours' with the speech act of assertion. It seems to me that rejective negation does have many of the virtues claimed for it. But there is a need to temper the enthusiasm of the revivalists. One touted virtue is that rejective negation undermines Dummettian suspicions of classical logic. Price (1983, 1990) and Rumfitt (2000) offer arguments to this conclusion. In my paper, I shall attempt to show that Price's and Rumfitt's arguments fail. Rumfitt introduces the helpful label 'bilateral theory of sense' to refer a theory according to which the sense of a logical connective is fixed not only by inferences concerning assertions but also inferences concerning rejections. To specify a bilateral theory of sense, he uses signed sentences: '-' is used as the rejection-sign;'+' is used as the assertion-sign. For example, a classicist might specify the sense of negation using the following four rules of inference:2