Knowledge Of Meaning

Author : Richard K. Larson,Gabriel Segal
Publisher : Bradford Book
Page : 639 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0262621002

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Knowledge of Meaning by Richard K. Larson,Gabriel Segal Pdf

Current textbooks in formal semantics are all versions of, or introductions to, the same paradigm in semantic theory: Montague Grammar. Knowledge of Meaning is based on different assumptions and a different history. It provides the only introduction to truth- theoretic semantics for natural languages, fully integrating semantic theory into the modern Chomskyan program in linguistic theory and connecting linguistic semantics to research elsewhere in cognitive psychology and philosophy. As such, it better fits into a modern graduate or undergraduate program in linguistics, cognitive science, or philosophy. Furthermore, since the technical tools it employs are much simpler to teach and to master, Knowledge of Meaning can be taught by someone who is not primarily a semanticist. Linguistic semantics cannot be studied as a stand-alone subject but only as part of cognitive psychology, the authors assert. It is the study of a particular human cognitive competence governing the meanings of words and phrases. Larson and Segal argue that speakers have unconscious knowledge of the semantic rules of their language, and they present concrete, empirically motivated proposals about a formal theory of this competence based on the work of Alfred Tarski and Donald Davidson. The theory is extended to a wide range of constructions occurring in natural language, including predicates, proper nouns, pronouns and demonstratives, quantifiers, definite descriptions, anaphoric expressions, clausal complements, and adverbs. Knowledge of Meaning gives equal weight to philosophical, empirical, and formal discussions. It addresses not only the empirical issues of linguistic semantics but also its fundamental conceptual questions, including the relation of truth to meaning and the methodology of semantic theorizing. Numerous exercises are included in the book.

Author : John Henry McDowell,John McDowell
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0674557778

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Meaning, Knowledge, and Reality by John Henry McDowell,John McDowell Pdf

This is the second volume of John McDowell's selected papers. These 19 essays collectively report on McDowell's involvement with questions about the interface between the philosophies of language and mind and with issues in general epistemology.

Author : John Henry McDowell
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674007131

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Mind, Value, and Reality by John Henry McDowell Pdf

This book collects some of McDowell’s most influential papers of the last two decades. The essays deal with themes such as the interpretation of Aristotle’s and Plato’s ethical writings, questions in moral philosophy that arise out of the Greek tradition, Wittengensteinian ideas about reason in action, and issues central to philosophy of mind.

Author : Julian Stodd
Publisher : Julian Stodd
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781301838554

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Learning, knowledge and meaning by Julian Stodd Pdf

In the Social Age, knowledge is no longer enough: our value comes in our ability to create meaning. Tools like Google let us find out 'facts', but agile learners use those facts to inform their actions. But how do we do this? How do we make sense of the world around us and use that meaning to take action, to learn? This book, based upon five days of writing in Singapore, is a reflection on learning, knowledge and how we create meaning. It's a personal journey through the subject, based on reflections as diverse as the meaning of the Starbucks logo and the workings of the Singapore docklands. It's a journey of discovery, to discover how we create meaning.

Author : Annalisa Coliva
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199278053

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Mind, Meaning, and Knowledge by Annalisa Coliva Pdf

This volume is a collective exploration of major themes in the work of Crispin Wright, one of today's leading philosophers. The distinguished contributors address a variety of issues, including truth, realism, anti-realism, relativism, and scepticism, and testify to Wright's seminal work on language, mind, metaphysics, and epistemology.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:249339693

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Knowledge of Meaning ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Swift
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781443809030

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The Epicurean Theory of Mind, Meaning and Knowledge by David Swift Pdf

Ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus provided some of our most cherished assumptions about physics and ethics. He postulated an infinite universe made exclusively of atoms and void. He also treated slaves and women as equals and defined our standards of pleasure and luxury. Now David Swift turns to Epicurus for help with another significant mystery: the scientific explanation of mind. Using Epicurean ideas that our minds are in our chests and, perhaps even more radically, that meaning is understood in our sense organs he re-examines and reinterprets the works of philosophers like Descartes, Locke, Kant and Mill and scientists such as Pavlov, Freud, Skinner and Rogers. Seen in the light of the Epicurean concept, Renaissance philosophy and classic scientific psychology validate a surprisingly consistent and coherent scientific explanation of behaviour. The mechanisms of meaning, knowledge, learning and remembering are explained in terms of biological reflexes. The secrets of love, hate and loyalty are revealed as non-verbal knowledge only accessible as feelings. And success, failure, criminal and other behaviours are shown to be the results of learned experience not genetic predisposition. At last we have the possibility of a plausible biologically-based general psychological theory.

Author : Marcelo Gleiser
Publisher : Civitas Books
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780465031719

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The Island of Knowledge by Marcelo Gleiser Pdf

Why discovering the limits to science may be the most powerful discovery of allHow much can we know about the world? In this book, physicist Marcelo Gleiser traces our search for answers to the most fundamental questions of existence, the origin of the universe, the nature of reality, and the limits of knowledge. In so doing, he reaches a provocative conclusion: science, like religion, is fundamentally limited as a tool for understanding the world. As science and its philosophical interpretations advance, we face the unsettling recognition of how much we don't know. Gleiser shows that by aband.

Author : Eva Mestre Mestre,Carlos Periñán
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443887922

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Understanding Meaning and Knowledge Representation by Eva Mestre Mestre,Carlos Periñán Pdf

Today, there is a need to develop natural language processing (NLP) systems from deeper linguistic approaches. Although there are many NLP applications which can work without taking into account any linguistic theory, this type of system can only be described as “deceptively intelligent”. On the other hand, however, those computer programs requiring some language comprehension capability should be grounded in a robust linguistic model if they are to display the expected behaviour. The purpose of this book is to examine and discuss recent work in meaning and knowledge representation within theoretical linguistics and cognitive linguistics, particularly research which can be reused to model NLP applications.

Author : David Didau
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000331554

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Making Meaning in English by David Didau Pdf

What is English as a school subject for? What does knowledge look like in English and what should be taught? Making Meaning in English examines the broader purpose and reasons for teaching English and explores what knowledge looks like in a subject concerned with judgement, interpretation and value. David Didau argues that the content of English is best explored through distinct disciplinary lenses – metaphor, story, argument, pattern, grammar and context – and considers the knowledge that needs to be explicitly taught so students can recognise, transfer, build and extend their knowledge of English. He discusses the principles and tools we can use to make decisions about what to teach and offers a curriculum framework that draws these strands together to allow students to make sense of the knowledge they encounter. If students are going to enjoy English as a subject and do well in it, they not only need to be knowledgeable, but understand how to use their knowledge to create meaning. This insightful text offers a practical way for teachers to construct a curriculum in which the mastery of English can be planned, taught and assessed.

Author : John Canfield
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134935727

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Philosophy of Meaning, Knowledge and Value in the Twentieth Century by John Canfield Pdf

Volume 10 of the Routledge History of Philosophy presents a historical survey of the central topics in twentieth century Anglo-American philosophy. It chronicles what has been termed the 'linguistic turn' in analytic philosophy and traces the influence the study of language has had on the main problems of philosophy. Each chapter contains an extensive bibliography of the major writings in the field. All the essays present their large and complex topics in a clear and well organised way. At the end, the reader finds a helpful Chronology of the major political, scientific and philosophical events in the Twentieth Century and an extensive Glossary of technical terms.

Author : Walter A. Elwell
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 1312 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441200303

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Evangelical Dictionary of Theology (Baker Reference Library) by Walter A. Elwell Pdf

Fifteen years after its original publication comes a thoroughly revised edition of the Evangelical Dictionary of Theology. Every article from the original edition has been revisited. With some articles being removed, others revised, and many new articles added, the result is a completely new dictionary covering systematic, historical, and philosophical theology as well as theological ethics.

Author : Dariusz Jemielniak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317025955

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The Laws of the Knowledge Workplace by Dariusz Jemielniak Pdf

In The Laws of the Knowledge Workplace, Dr Jemielniak has collected research-based chapters providing deep, interdisciplinary insight into knowledge professions, addressing issues of professional identity, emotion, power and authority, trust and indoctrination, and management behaviour. This leads to an examination of issues related to time and work scheduling and its bearing on play, family, symbolic sacrifices, and employee burn-out. In particular, it delves into the identity shifts between knowledge workers and managers, nepotism and turnover intentions among knowledge workers, the implementation of engineering projects, coordination problems in offshore production systems, leadership in virtual teams, decision support systems; taking into account the moral aspects of consequences, netnography as a tool for studying knowledge work, and innovative networks in the aviation industry. The accounts and studies in this book come from management, organization studies, sociology, and anthropology of work perspectives and are fully international in scope. They highlight the scale of the serious changes in occupational roles and to the meaning of work that is taking place in knowledge-intensive environments and give a pointer to what might constitute good and bad management practice in knowledge-intensive companies.

Author : Carlos Periñán Pascual,Eva M. Mestre-Mestre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Cognitive grammar
ISBN : 1443884618

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Understanding Meaning and Knowledge Representation by Carlos Periñán Pascual,Eva M. Mestre-Mestre Pdf

Today, there is a need to develop natural language processing (NLP) systems from deeper linguistic approaches. Although there are many NLP applications which can work without taking into account any linguistic theory, this type of system can only be described as â oedeceptively intelligentâ . On the other hand, however, those computer programs requiring some language comprehension capability should be grounded in a robust linguistic model if they are to display the expected behaviour. The purpose of this book is to examine and discuss recent work in meaning and knowledge representation within theoretical linguistics and cognitive linguistics, particularly research which can be reused to model NLP applications.

Author : Gerhard Preyer,Georg Peter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Context (Linguistics)
ISBN : OCLC:300419351

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Contextualism in Philosophy by Gerhard Preyer,Georg Peter Pdf