Santa Claus Comes Tonight!

Santa Claus Comes Tonight!
Author: Jack Beaumont
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2016-11-16
Genre:
ISBN: 9781540471239

Betheltown, Alaska: Where Christmas is a BIG deal. Everyone decorates, everyone participates. In a town seemingly overflowing with Christmas spirit, something nefarious lies beneath the bright lights and holiday cheer. No one wants to be the one with the least amount of Christmas decor...not in Betheltown. Not in a town where the phrase "Santa Claus comes tonight" is spoken in a whisper and is viewed as a threat, not a reason for cheer. Jump in bed, cover up your head 'cause Santa Claus comes tonight!

Who'll Pull Santa's Sleigh Tonight?

Who'll Pull Santa's Sleigh Tonight?
Author: Laura Rader
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2003-09-23
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0060080884

When the reindeer get bad colds, Santa Claus wonders who will be able to pull his sleigh on Christmas Eve.

Knowledge, Language and Logic: Questions for Quine

Knowledge, Language and Logic: Questions for Quine
Author: A. Orenstein
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 476
Release: 2000-04-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780792359869

Quine is one of the twentieth century's most important and influential philosophers. The essays in this collection are by some of the leading figures in their fields and they touch on the most recent turnings in Quine's work. The book also features an essay by Quine himself, and his replies to each of the papers. Questions are raised concerning Quine's views on knowledge: observation, holism, truth, naturalized epistemology; about language: meaning, the indeterminacy of translation, conjecture; and about the philosophy of logic: ontology, singular terms, vagueness, identity, and intensional contexts. Given Quine's preeminent position, this book must be of interest to students of philosophy in general, Quine aficionados, and most particularly to those working in the areas of epistemology, ontology, philosophies of language, of logic, and of science.

Santa Claus

Santa Claus
Author: Todd Graham
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2018-12-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1532061056

Christmas has been under attack for years, thanks to the evil Ice Queen and her mother, Emma Frostbite, the Empress of the North. With the power of a troll army and Nutcracker war machine behind them, the Queen and her mother have now set their sights on the last remaining Christmas stronghold, the twin cities of Feliz and Navidad. Now that Christmas bells, songs, and the spirit have been taken away for good, this just may be the end of Christmas in the world. Sixteen-year-old orphan Nicholas Claus isn’t about to let this happen. Fueled by an indomitable Christmas spirit, Nicholas embarks on a quest to seek help from a mysterious woman called Christmas Carol, stop the Ice Queen, and hopefully restore Christmas to its ultimate glory. While following clues hidden in a special snow globe, he is joined by allies as they attempt to find Christmas Carol and battle forces bent on destroying the holiday. As Nicholas and his friends set out on a hero’s mission to Tannenbaum, Feliz, Navidad, and the North Pole, he has no idea that his journey is about to lead him to receive the best Christmas gift ever. Santa Claus: The First Noel continues the tale of a young man’s quest to save Christmas from the destructive claws of an evil Ice Queen and her frosty mother.

Oratio Obliqua, Oratio Recta

Oratio Obliqua, Oratio Recta
Author: François Récanati
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2000
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780262681162

Among the entities that can be mentally or linguistically represented are mental and linguistic representations themselves. That is, we can think and talk about speech and thought. This phenomenon is known as metarepresentation. An example is "Authors believe that people read books." In this book François Recanati discusses the structure of metarepresentation from a variety of perspectives. According to him, metarepresentations have a dual structure: their content includes the content of the object-representation (people reading books) as well as the "meta" part (the authors' belief). Rejecting the view that the object representation is mentioned rather than used, Recanati claims that since metarepresentations carry the content of the object representation, they must be about whatever the object representation is about. Metarepresentations are fundamentally transparent because they work by simulating the representation they are about. Topics covered in this wide-ranging work include the analysis of belief reports and talk about fiction, world shifting, opacity and substitutivity, quotation, the relation between direct and indirect discourse, context shifting, semantic pretense, and deference in language and thought.