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  • Irregular Negatives, Implicatures, and Idioms

    by Wayne A. Davis ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The author integrates, expands, and deepens his previous publications about irregular (or “metalinguistic”) negations. A total of ten distinct negatives—several previously unclassified—are analyzed. The logically irregular negations deny different implicatures of their root. All are partially non-compositional but completely conventional.The author argues that two of the irregular negative ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • The Logic of Metaphor

    Analogous Parts of Possible Worlds

    by Eric Steinhart ...
    Series 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 ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Pragmatism in Philosophical Inquiry

    Theoretical Considerations and Case Studies

    by Nicholas Rescher ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book showcases the history and theory of pragmatism and its alignment to the sensibilities of contemporary analytic philosophy. It does this not only by describing its mode of operation and explaining its legitimating rationale, but also by substantiating its claims by a series of instructive case studies.The unifying insight of this approach is that the natural criterion of merit within any ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Different Kinds of Specificity Across Languages

    Edited by Cornelia Ebert, Stefan Hinterwimmer ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This anthology of papers analyzes a range of specificity markers found in natural languages. It reflects the fact that despite intensive research into these markers, the vast differences between the markers across languages and even within single languages have been less acknowledged. Commonly regarded specific indefinites are by no means a homogenous class, and so this volume fills a gap in our ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Indian Philosophy of Language

    Studies in Selected Issues

    by Mark Siderits ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    What can the philosophy of language learn from the classical Indian philosophical tradition? As recently as twenty or thirty years ago this question simply would not have arisen. If a practitioner of analytic philosophy of language of that time had any view of Indian philosophy at all, it was most likely to be the stereotyped picture of a gaggle of navel gazing mystics making vaguely Bradley-esque ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Pronouns in Embedded Contexts at the Syntax-Semantics Interface

    Edited by Patrick Georg Grosz, Sarah Zobel, Pritty Patel-Grosz ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume presents studies on pronouns in embedded contexts, and offers fundamental insights into this central area of research. Much of the recent research on pronouns has shown that embedded environments, such as clausal complements of attitude predicates, provide a window into the nature of pronouns. Pronouns in such environments not only exhibit familiar distinctions such as that between ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Cognition, Agency and Rationality

    Proceedings of the Fifth International Colloquium on Cognitive Science

    Edited by E. Sosa, K. Korta, X. Arrazola ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    As usual, the Proceedings of the International Colloquium on Cognitive Science include leading-edge work by outstanding researchers in the field. This volume contains three kinds of papers corresponding to three of the main disciplines in cognitive science: philosophy, psychology, and artificial intelligence. The title - Cognition, Agency and Rationality - captures the main issues addressed by the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Semiotics of International Law

    Trade and Translation

    by Evandro Menezes de Carvalho ...
    Series Book 91 - Law and Philosophy Library
    Language carries more than meanings; language conveys a means of conceiving the world. In this sense, national legal systems expressed through national languages organize the Law based on their own understanding of reality. International Law becomes, in this context, the meeting point where different legal cultures and different views of world intersect.The diversity of languages and legal systems ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Indirect Reports and Pragmatics

    Interdisciplinary Studies

    Edited by Alessandro Capone, Ferenc Kiefer, Franco Lo Piparo ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume offers the reader a singular overview of current thinking on indirect reports. The contributors are eminent researchers from the fields of philosophy of language, theoretical linguistics and communication theory, who answer questions on this important issue. This exciting area of controversy has until now mostly been treated from the viewpoint of philosophy. This volume adds the views ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • The Meaning of Nouns

    Semantic Theory in Classical and Medieval India

    by M.M. Deshpande ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Kaun&ddotu;abhatta's Vaiyakarana-bhusana is a massive work on semantic theory written in India in the 17th century. Kaun&ddotu;abhatta belonged to the tradition of Sanskrit grammar and in this work he consolidated the philosophy of language developed in the Paninian tradition of Sanskrit grammar. Kaun&ddotu;abhatta's work takes account of the philosophical debate which occurred in classical and ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • The Nature of Truth

    An updated approach to the meaning of truth ascriptions

    by Maria Jose Frapolli ...
    Series 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. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Logical Form

    Between Logic and Natural Language

    by Andrea Iacona ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Logical form has always been a prime concern for philosophers belonging to the analytic tradition. For at least one century, the study of logical form has been widely adopted as a method of investigation, relying on its capacity to reveal the structure of thoughts or the constitution of facts. This book focuses on the very idea of logical form, which is directly relevant to any principled ... Read more

    $80.09 USD