Lost on the Lady Elgin

Lost on the Lady Elgin
Author: Valerie van Heest
Publisher: In-Depth Editions, LLC
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Great Lakes (North America)
ISBN: 9780980175097

In the worst maritime tragedy on the open waters of the Great Lakes, over three hundred people perished as the sidewheel steamer Lady Elgin sank off the shores of Milwaukee in the early hours of September 8, 1860. In 1992 the remains of the wreck were discovered, and a legal battle over ownership enused.

Montgomery Ward

Montgomery Ward
Author: Montgomery Ward
Publisher:
Total Pages: 732
Release: 1926
Genre: Advertising, Direct-mail
ISBN:

Catalogue

Catalogue
Author: Montgomery Ward
Publisher:
Total Pages: 734
Release: 1926
Genre: Commercial catalogs
ISBN:

True Enough

True Enough
Author: Catherine Z. Elgin
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2017-10-20
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0262341387

The development of an epistemology that explains how science and art embody and convey understanding. Philosophy valorizes truth, holding that there can never be epistemically good reasons to accept a known falsehood, or to accept modes of justification that are not truth conducive. How can this stance account for the epistemic standing of science, which unabashedly relies on models, idealizations, and thought experiments that are known not to be true? In True Enough, Catherine Elgin argues that we should not assume that the inaccuracy of models and idealizations constitutes an inadequacy. To the contrary, their divergence from truth or representational accuracy fosters their epistemic functioning. When effective, models and idealizations are, Elgin contends, felicitous falsehoods that exemplify features of the phenomena they bear on. Because works of art deploy the same sorts of felicitous falsehoods, she argues, they also advance understanding. Elgin develops a holistic epistemology that focuses on the understanding of broad ranges of phenomena rather than knowledge of individual facts. Epistemic acceptability, she maintains, is a matter not of truth-conduciveness, but of what would be reflectively endorsed by the members of an idealized epistemic community—a quasi-Kantian realm of epistemic ends.

Catalog

Catalog
Author: Sears, Roebuck and Company
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1134
Release: 1923
Genre: Manufactures
ISBN:

Exploring Language Change

Exploring Language Change
Author: Mari C. Jones
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2005
Genre: Language change
ISBN: 9780415317757

In this student-friendly text, Jones and Singh explore the phenomenon of language change, with a particular focus on the social contexts of its occurrence and possible motivations, including speakers' intentions and attitudes. Presenting new or little-known data, the authors draw a distinction between "unconscious" and "deliberate" change. The discussion on "unconscious" change considers phenomena such as the emergence and obsolescence of individual languages, whilst the sections on "deliberate" change focus on issues of language planning, including the strategies of language revival and revitalization movements. There is also a detailed exploration of what is arguably the most extreme instance of "deliberate" change; language invention for real-world use. Examining an extensive range of language situations, Exploring Language Change makes a clear, but often ignored distinction between concepts such as language policy and planning, and language revival and revitalization. Also featured are a number of case studies which demonstrate that real-life language use is often much more complex than theoretical abstractions might suggest. This is a key text for students on a variety of courses, including sociolinguistics, historical linguistics and language policy and planning.