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Looks good IceCream. Just a few comments:

1. Instead of "In the dissertation, it was argued..." it should be "it is argued...", and so on all the way through. It is convention to abstract in the present tense.
2. 'Dispositionalism was rejected as the wrong type of thing to fulfill Kripke's "normativity requirement" for meaning'... type of thing? Is that technical? If not, I'd rearrange the sentence a'la "Dispositionalism was rejected as being unable to fulfill..." or something similar. Anything to avoid saying 'thing' unless it has a meaning in philosophy other than the general one.
3. Should "Judgement Dependent" be capitalised? If it's a proper noun that I'm not aware of, ignore this comment.
4. This is by no means compulsory, but it will heighten the impact of the abstract if you mention the importance of the work. I've read some of the actual dissertation and i'm not familiar enough with current philosophy to comment on the importance, and it might be difficult to do this smoothly.

IceCream Wrote:The dissertation

I got lost on the word "dissertation".

I looked it up, is it different from the word "theory"? Either Japan ruined my English, or I've never heard it before... I'll leave and return to math and programming now...

@Grinkers

A dissertation is the final project required by some programs in order to complete a degree. In the US, a dissertation is the final project submitted for a Ph.D. However, in the UK and some other countries, the dissertation is submitted for the completion of a bachelor's degree.

vileru Wrote:@Grinkers

A dissertation is the final project required by some programs in order to complete a degree. In the US, a dissertation is the final project submitted for a Ph.D. However, in the UK and some other countries, the dissertation is submitted for the completion of a bachelor's degree.

So it's the same as a bachelor's thesis?

Tobberoth Wrote:So it's the same as a bachelor's thesis?

It's a fancy word for the same. Or a master's thesis, or a doctoral thesis. Or in fact any large work on a single subject matter (Newton's Principia would be considered a dissertation).

Grinkers Wrote:

IceCream Wrote:The dissertation

I got lost on the word "dissertation".

I looked it up, is it different from the word "theory"? Either Japan ruined my English, or I've never heard it before... I'll leave and return to math and programming now...

According to Wikipedia: "At universities in the United Kingdom, the term thesis is usually associated with PhD/EngD (doctoral) and research master's degrees, whilst dissertation is the more common term for a substantial project submitted as part of a taught master's degree or an undergraduate degree (e.g. BA, BSc, BMus, BEd, BEng etc).

Individual departments and faculties set thesis word lengths. Theses in the humanities and social sciences are typically 80,000-100,000 words, with theses in the sciences being roughly half that length. The length of an undergraduate or master's dissertation varies considerably, but is almost always between 8,000 and 25,000 words."

Interesting to read the different terms and applications (Bachelor's, Master's, etc.) for different countries: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thesis_or_dissertation

Interesting that the relative importance of the terms is swapped in America compared with the UK.