The Meaning of Meaning
Author | : Charles Kay Ogden |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : Language and languages |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Charles Kay Ogden |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : Language and languages |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Herman Cappelen |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2012-03-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199644861 |
The standard view of philosophical methodology is that philosophers rely on intuitions as evidence. Herman Cappelen argues that this claim is false, and reveals how it has encouraged pseudo-problems, presented misguided ideas of what philosophy is, and misled exponents of metaphilosophy and experimental philosophy.
Author | : Franz Baader |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2017-04-20 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0521873614 |
The first introductory textbook on description logics, relevant to computer science, knowledge representation and the semantic web.
Author | : Richard R. Nelson |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1985-10-15 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780674041431 |
This book contains the most sustained and serious attack on mainstream, neoclassical economics in more than forty years. Nelson and Winter focus their critique on the basic question of how firms and industries change overtime. They marshal significant objections to the fundamental neoclassical assumptions of profit maximization and market equilibrium, which they find ineffective in the analysis of technological innovation and the dynamics of competition among firms. To replace these assumptions, they borrow from biology the concept of natural selection to construct a precise and detailed evolutionary theory of business behavior. They grant that films are motivated by profit and engage in search for ways of improving profits, but they do not consider them to be profit maximizing. Likewise, they emphasize the tendency for the more profitable firms to drive the less profitable ones out of business, but they do not focus their analysis on hypothetical states of industry equilibrium. The results of their new paradigm and analytical framework are impressive. Not only have they been able to develop more coherent and powerful models of competitive firm dynamics under conditions of growth and technological change, but their approach is compatible with findings in psychology and other social sciences. Finally, their work has important implications for welfare economics and for government policy toward industry.
Author | : Kit Fine |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 155 |
Release | : 2009-08-17 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1405196696 |
Introducing a new and ambitious position in the field, Kit Fine’s Semantic Relationism is a major contribution to the philosophy of language. A major contribution to the philosophy of language, now available in paperback Written by one of today’s most respected philosophers Argues for a fundamentally new approach to the study of representation in language and thought Proposes that there may be representational relationships between expressions or elements of thought that are not grounded in the intrinsic representational features of the expressions or elements themselves Forms part of the prestigious new Blackwell/Brown Lectures in Philosophy series, based on an ongoing series of lectures by today’s leading philosophers
Author | : Salvatore Florio |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2021-07-22 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0192509160 |
Plural expressions found in natural languages allow us to talk about many objects simultaneously. Plural logic — a logical system that takes plurals at face value — has seen a surge of interest in recent years. This book explores its broader significance for philosophy, logic, and linguistics. What can plural logic do for us? Are the bold claims made on its behalf correct? After introducing plural logic and its main applications, the book provides a systematic analysis of the relation between this logic and other theoretical frameworks such as set theory, mereology, higher-order logic, and modal logic. The applications of plural logic rely on two assumptions, namely that this logic is ontologically innocent and has great expressive power. These assumptions are shown to be problematic. The result is a more nuanced picture of plural logic's applications than has been given thus far. Questions about the correct logic of plurals play a central role in the final chapters, where traditional plural logic is rejected in favor of a “critical” alternative. The most striking feature of this alternative is that there is no universal plurality. This leads to a novel approach to the relation between the many and the one. In particular, critical plural logic paves the way for an account of sets capable of solving the set-theoretic paradoxes.
Author | : François Recanati |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0199659982 |
François Recanati presents his theory of mental files, a new way of understanding reference in language and thought. Linguistic expressions inherit their reference from the files that we associate with them, which are classified according to their function, which is to store information derived through certain types of relation to objects.
Author | : Edward Casey |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 507 |
Release | : 2013-05-13 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0520954564 |
In this imaginative and comprehensive study, Edward Casey, one of the most incisive interpreters of the Continental philosophical tradition, offers a philosophical history of the evolving conceptualizations of place and space in Western thought. Not merely a presentation of the ideas of other philosophers, The Fate of Place is acutely sensitive to silences, absences, and missed opportunities in the complex history of philosophical approaches to space and place. A central theme is the increasing neglect of place in favor of space from the seventh century A.D. onward, amounting to the virtual exclusion of place by the end of the eighteenth century. Casey begins with mythological and religious creation stories and the theories of Plato and Aristotle and then explores the heritage of Neoplatonic, medieval, and Renaissance speculations about space. He presents an impressive history of the birth of modern spatial conceptions in the writings of Newton, Descartes, Leibniz, and Kant and delineates the evolution of twentieth-century phenomenological approaches in the work of Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Bachelard, and Heidegger. In the book's final section, Casey explores the postmodern theories of Foucault, Derrida, Tschumi, Deleuze and Guattari, and Irigaray.
Author | : James F. Manwell |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 704 |
Release | : 2010-09-14 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780470686287 |
Wind energy’s bestselling textbook- fully revised. This must-have second edition includes up-to-date data, diagrams, illustrations and thorough new material on: the fundamentals of wind turbine aerodynamics; wind turbine testing and modelling; wind turbine design standards; offshore wind energy; special purpose applications, such as energy storage and fuel production. Fifty additional homework problems and a new appendix on data processing make this comprehensive edition perfect for engineering students. This book offers a complete examination of one of the most promising sources of renewable energy and is a great introduction to this cross-disciplinary field for practising engineers. “provides a wealth of information and is an excellent reference book for people interested in the subject of wind energy.” (IEEE Power & Energy Magazine, November/December 2003) “deserves a place in the library of every university and college where renewable energy is taught.” (The International Journal of Electrical Engineering Education, Vol.41, No.2 April 2004) “a very comprehensive and well-organized treatment of the current status of wind power.” (Choice, Vol. 40, No. 4, December 2002)
Author | : Frans H. van Eemeren |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2019-11-05 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110846098 |
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