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  • Procedural Semantics for Hyperintensional Logic

    Foundations and Applications of Transparent Intensional Logic

    par Pavel Materna, Marie Duží, Bjorn Jespersen ...
    Collections series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book is about Transparent Intensional Logic, the brainchild of Pavel Tichý. Three books and around 100 papers on Transparent Intensional Logic have till now seen the light of day since the mid-1960s. So why a book of more than 500 pages now? For two reasons. Firstly, Transparent Intensional Logic is a theory without something like a textbook. Now this is not an actual textbook, if a textbook ... En savoir plus

    $256.19 CAD

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  • Modality and Meaning

    par W.G. Lycan ...
    Collections series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Part I of this book presents a theory of modal metaphysics in the possible-worlds tradition. `Worlds' themselves are understood as structured sets of properties; this `Ersatzist' view is defended against its most vigorous competitors, Meinongianism and David Lewis' theory of existent concrete worlds. Related issues of essentialism and linguistic reference are explored.Part II takes up the question ... En savoir plus

    $179.99 CAD

  • The Logic of Metaphor

    Analogous Parts of Possible Worlds

    par Eric Steinhart ...
    Collections series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Metaphors and Logic Metaphors are among the most vigorous offspring of the creative mind; but their vitality springs from the fact that they are logical organisms in the ecology of l- guage. I aim to use logical techniques to analyze the meanings of metaphors. My goal here is to show how contemporary formal semantics can be extended to handle metaphorical utterances. What distinguishes this work ... En savoir plus

    $115.29 CAD

  • Vagueness: A Guide

    Modifié par Giuseppina Ronzitti ...
    Collections series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume explores how vagueness matters as a specific problem in the context of theories that are primarily about something else. After an introductory chapter on the Sorites paradox, which exposes the various forms the paradox can take and some of the responses that have been pursued, the book proceeds with a chapter on vagueness and metaphysics, which covers important questions concerning ... En savoir plus

    $204.99 CAD

  • Narration as Argument

    Modifié par Paula Olmos ...
    Collections series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book presents reflections on the relationship between narratives and argumentative discourse. It focuses on their functional and structural similarities or dissimilarities, and offers diverse perspectives and conceptual tools for analyzing the narratives’ potential power for justification, explanation and persuasion. Divided into two sections, the first Part, under the title “Narratives as ... En savoir plus

    $115.29 CAD

  • Victor Dudman's Grammar and Semantics

    par J. Curthoys, V. Dudman ...
    Collections series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Victor Dudman's revolutionary English Grammar brings grammar and logic together by conceiving grammar as 'the necessary preliminary to logic'. The focus, for logicians, is the discussion of 'conditionals'; for grammarians it is the concise and accurate explanation of the infamous English modals. ... En savoir plus

    $64.99 CAD

  • Evolution of Semantic Systems

    Modifié par Bernd-Olaf Küppers, Udo Hahn, Stefan Artmann ...
    Collections series Computer Science (R0)
    Complex systems in nature and society make use of information for the development of their internal organization and the control of their functional mechanisms. Alongside technical aspects of storing, transmitting and processing information, the various semantic aspects of information, such as meaning, sense, reference and function, play a decisive part in the analysis of such systems.With the aim ... En savoir plus

    $115.99 CAD

  • Code Biology

    A New Science of Life

    par Marcello Barbieri ...
    This book is the study of all codes of life with the standard methods of science. The genetic code and the codes of culture have been known for a long time and represent the historical foundation of this book. What is really new in this field is the study of all codes that came after the genetic code and before the codes of culture. The existence of these organic codes, however, is not only a ... En savoir plus

    $192.99 CAD

  • Singular Reference: A Descriptivist Perspective

    par Francesco Orilia ...
    Collections series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Singular reference to ourselves and the ordinary objects surrounding us is a most crucial philosophical topic, for it looms large in any attempt to understand how language and mind connect to the world. This book explains in detail why in the past philosophers such as Frege, Russell and Reichenbach have favoured a descriptivist approach to this matter and why in more recent times Donnellan, Kripke ... En savoir plus

    $179.99 CAD

  • Lingua Universalis vs. Calculus Ratiocinator:

    An Ultimate Presupposition of Twentieth-Century Philosophy

    par Jaakko Hintikka ...
    Collections series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    R. G. Collingwood saw one of the main tasks of philosophers and of historians of human thought in uncovering what he called the ultimate presuppositions of different thinkers, of different philosophical movements and of entire eras of intellectual history. He also noted that such ultimate presuppositions usually remain tacit at first, and are discovered only by subsequent reflection. Collingwood ... En savoir plus

    $267.69 CAD

  • Individuals, Essence and Identity

    Themes of Analytic Metaphysics

    Modifié par Massimiliano Carrara, P. Giaretta, A. Bottani ...
    Collections series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Andrea Bottani Massimiliano Carrara Pierdaniele Giaretta What do we do when we do metaphysics? The aim of this introduction is to give a provisional answer to this question, and then to explain the subtitle of the volume. It is easy to observe that when we do meta physics we engage in a linguistic activity, mainly consisting of uttering declarative sentences that are not very clear to most people. ... En savoir plus

    $256.19 CAD

  • The Nature of Truth

    An updated approach to the meaning of truth ascriptions

    par Maria Jose Frapolli ...
    Collections series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The book offers a characterization of the meaning and role of the notion of truth in natural languages and an explanation of why, in spite of the big amount of proposals about truth, this task has proved to be resistant to the different analyses. The general thesis of the book is that defining truth is perfectly possible and that the average educated philosopher of language has the tools to do it. ... En savoir plus

    $115.99 CAD