Reference And Description

Author : Scott Soames
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400826452

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Reference and Description by Scott Soames Pdf

In this book, Scott Soames defends the revolution in philosophy led by Saul Kripke, Hilary Putnam, and David Kaplan against attack from those wishing to revive descriptivism in the philosophy of language, internalism in the philosophy of mind, and conceptualism in the foundations of modality. Soames explains how, in the last twenty-five years, this attack on the anti-descriptivist revolution has coalesced around a technical development called two-dimensional modal logic that seeks to reinterpret the Kripkean categories of the necessary aposteriori and the contingent apriori in ways that drain them of their far-reaching philosophical significance. Arguing against this reinterpretation, Soames shows how the descriptivist revival has been aided by puzzles and problems ushered in by the anti-descriptivist revolution, as well as by certain errors and missteps in the anti-descriptivist classics themselves. Reference and Description sorts through all this, assesses and consolidates the genuine legacy of Kripke and Kaplan, and launches a thorough and devastating critique of the two-dimensionalist revival of descriptivism. Through it all, Soames attempts to provide the outlines of a lasting, nondescriptivist perspective on meaning, and a nonconceptualist understanding of modality.

Author : Henry W. Roehler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Geology
ISBN : ERDC:35925002522651

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Description and Correlation of Eocene Rocks in Stratigraphic Reference Sections for the Green River and Washakie Basins, Southwest Wyoming : Includes Analyses of Eocene Rocks in the Washakie Basin by Henry W. Roehler Pdf

Author : Columbus Memorial Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Latin America
ISBN : UIUC:30112064057489

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List of Books on Latin American History and Description (with Reference to Articles in Magazines) in the Columbus Memorial Library ... by Columbus Memorial Library Pdf

Author : United States. National Security Agency/Central Security Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:30000010449886

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NSA/CSS supply catalog descriptive data listing by United States. National Security Agency/Central Security Service Pdf

Author : UNISIST (Program). International Centre for Bibliographic Descriptions,Unesco. General Information Programme
Publisher : General Information Programme and Unisist, Unesco
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Cataloging
ISBN : UOM:39015021963569

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Reference Manual for Machine-readable Bibliographic Descriptions by UNISIST (Program). International Centre for Bibliographic Descriptions,Unesco. General Information Programme Pdf

Allows the following functions: 1. creating bibliographic descriptions with the inclusion of all necessary entry points for cataloguing, identification, filing, search and other forms of processing. 2. providing a source for local systems design.

Author : William Jones
Publisher : Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781627050173

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Transforming Technologies to Manage Our Information by William Jones Pdf

With its theme, "Our Information, Always and Forever," Part I of this book covers the basics of personal information management (PIM) including six essential activities of PIM and six (different) ways in which information can be personal to us. Part I then goes on to explore key issues that arise in the "great migration" of our information onto the Web and into a myriad of mobile devices. Part 2 provides a more focused look at technologies for managing information that promise to profoundly alter our practices of PIM and, through these practices, the way we lead our lives. Part 2 is in five chapters: - Chapter 5. Technologies of Input and Output. Technologies in support of gesture, touch, voice, and even eye movements combine to support a more natural user interface (NUI). Technologies of output include glasses and "watch" watches. Output will also increasingly be animated with options to "zoom". - Chapter 6. Technologies to Save Our Information. We can opt for "life logs" to record our experiences with increasing fidelity. What will we use these logs for? And what isn’t recorded that should be? - Chapter 7. Technologies to Search Our Information. The potential for personalized search is enormous and mostly yet to be realized. Persistent searches, situated in our information landscape, will allow us to maintain a diversity of projects and areas of interest without a need to continually switch from one to another to handle incoming information. - Chapter 8. Technologies to Structure Our Information. Structure is key if we are to keep, find, and make effective use of our information. But how best to structure? And how best to share structured information between the applications we use, with other people, and also with ourselves over time? What lessons can we draw from the failures and successes in web-based efforts to share structure? - Chapter 9. PIM Transformed and Transforming: Stories from the Past, Present and Future. Part 2 concludes with a comparison between Licklider’s world of information in 1957 and our own world of information today. And then we consider what the world of information is likely to look like in 2057. Licklider estimated that he spent 85% of his "thinking time" in activities that were clerical and mechanical and might (someday) be delegated to the computer. What percentage of our own time is spent with the clerical and mechanical? What about in 2057?

Author : IBP USA
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781433079771

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Falkland Islands Taxation Laws and Regulations Handbook: Strategic Information and Regulations by IBP USA Pdf

2011 Updated Reprint. Updated Annually. Falkland Islands Taxation Laws and Regulations Handbook

Author : Alexander R. H. Smith
Publisher : Springer
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030110000

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Detectors, Reference Frames, and Time by Alexander R. H. Smith Pdf

This thesis uses the tools of quantum information science to uncover fascinating new insights about the intersection of quantum theory and relativity. It is divided into three self-contained parts, the first of which employs detector models to investigate how the information content of quantum fields depends on spacetime curvature and global spacetime topology. The behavior of Unruh-DeWitt detectors on curved spacetimes are investigated, following which these detectors are used to probe the vacuum state of a scalar field in various topologies. This leads to a generalization of the entanglement harvesting protocol involving detectors in arbitrary curved spacetimes admitting a Wightman function. The second part extends the theory of quantum reference frames to those associated with noncompact groups. Motivated by the pursuit of a relational relativistic quantum theory where the group of reference frames is the Poincaré group, the author then generalizes a communication protocol between two parties lacking a common reference frame to the scenario where the group of transformations of their reference frame is a one-dimensional noncompact Lie group. Finally, the third part, inspired by theories of quantum gravity, generalizes the conditional probability interpretation of time, a proposed mechanism for time to emerge from a fundamentally timeless Universe. While the conditional probability interpretation of time is based upon conditioning a solution to the Wheeler-DeWitt equation on a subsystem of the universe that acts a clock, the author extends this approach to include an interaction between the system being used as a clock and a system whose evolution the clock is tracking.

Author : Brian E. Travis,Dale C. Waldt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642578601

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The SGML Implementation Guide by Brian E. Travis,Dale C. Waldt Pdf

Foreword------------------------------------- SGML is misunderstood and underestimated. I have always wanted to write this book. I am pleased that two people with whom I have had the pleasure to work were finally able to do so. Since I have always been a bit of an evangelist, I feel pride when my "students" become recognized "teachers". In the early years of SGML we struggled to define a language that would bring the information to its rightful place. We succeeded. Then we had to explain these idea to technical adoptors. Again, I think we have succeeded. We have learned much about SGML in the process of implementing it. These experiences must now also be shared, along with comprehensible information on the lan guage itself. The word must move out of the lab and the computer center and reach the business people, the users, the movers and shakers. The next generation will do things with SGML that we can't even imagine yet- it is that versatile.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1022 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : HARVARD:32044103147682

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The Pacific Reporter by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jeanette K. Gundel,Nancy Hedberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190450250

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Reference by Jeanette K. Gundel,Nancy Hedberg Pdf

The ability to produce and understand referring expressions is basic to human language use and human cognition. Reference comprises the ability to think of and represent objects (both real and imagined/fictional), to indicate to others which of these objects we are talking about, and to determine what others are talking about when they use a nominal expression. The articles in this volume are concerned with some of the central themes and challenges in research on reference within the cognitive sciences - philosophy (including philosophy of language and mind, logic, and formal semantics), theoretical and computational linguistics, and cognitive psychology. The papers address four basic questions: What is reference? What is the appropriate analysis of different referring forms, such as definite descriptions? How is reference resolved? and How do speaker/writers select appropriate referring forms, such as pronouns vs. full noun phrases, demonstrative vs. personal pronouns, and overt vs. null/zero pronominal forms? Some of the papers assume and build on existing theories, such as Centering Theory and the Givenness Hierarchy framework; others propose their own models of reference understanding or production. The essays examine reference from a number of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, informed by different research traditions and employing different methodologies. While the contributors to the volume were primarily trained in one of the four represented disciplines-computer science, linguistics, philosophy and psychology, and use methodologies typical of that discipline, each of them bridges more than one discipline in their methodology and/or their approach.

Author : Great Britain. Ordnance Survey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Parishes
ISBN : OXFORD:555055291

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Book of Reference to the Plan of the Parish of ... by Great Britain. Ordnance Survey Pdf

Author : Himss
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781498772426

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HIMSS Dictionary of Health Information Technology Terms, Acronyms, and Organizations by Himss Pdf

This significantly expanded and newest edition of the bestselling HIMSS Dictionary of Health Information Technology Terms, Acronyms, and Organizations has been developed and extensively reviewed by more than 50 industry experts. The fourth edition of this dictionary serves as a quick reference for students, health information technology professionals and healthcare executives to better navigate the ever-growing health IT field. This valuable resource includes more than 3000 definitions, 30 new organizations and 76 new references. Definitions of terms for the information technology and clinical, medical and nursing informatics fields are updated and included. This fourth edition also includes an acronyms list with cross references to current definitions, new word-search capability, and a list of health IT-related associations and organizations, including contact information, mission statements and web addresses. Academic and certification credentials are also included. HIMSS North America, a business unit within HIMSS, positively transforms health and healthcare through the best use of information technology in the United States and Canada. As a cause-based non-profit, HIMSS North America provides thought leadership, community building, professional development, public policy, and events. HIMSS North America represents 64,000 individual members, 640 corporate members, and over 450 non-profit organizations. Thousands of volunteers work with HIMSS to improve the quality, cost-effectiveness, access, and value of healthcare through IT. HIMSS Vision Better health through information technology. HIMSS Mission Globally, lead endeavors optimizing health engagements and care outcomes through information technology.

Author : Saul A. Kripke
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674598466

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Naming and Necessity by Saul A. Kripke Pdf

If there is such a thing as essential reading in metaphysics or in philosophy of language, this is it. Ever since the publication of its original version, Naming and Necessity has had great and increasing influence. It redirected philosophical attention to neglected questions of natural and metaphysical necessity and to the connections between these and theories of reference, in particular of naming, and of identity. From a critique of the dominant tendency to assimilate names to descriptions and more generally to treat their reference as a function of their Fregean sense, surprisingly deep and widespread consequences may be drawn. The largely discredited distinction between accidental and essential properties, both of individual things (including people) and of kinds of things, is revived. So is a consequent view of science as what seeks out the essences of natural kinds. Traditional objections to such views are dealt with by sharpening distinctions between epistemic and metaphysical necessity; in particular by the startling admission of necessary a posteriori truths. From these, in particular from identity statements using rigid designators whether of things or of kinds, further remarkable consequences are drawn for the natures of things, of people, and of kinds; strong objections follow, for example to identity versions of materialism as a theory of the mind. This seminal work, to which today's thriving essentialist metaphysics largely owes its impetus, is here published with a substantial new Preface by the author.

Author : Susana Nuccetelli,Gary Seay
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199281725

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Themes from G. E. Moore by Susana Nuccetelli,Gary Seay Pdf

These sixteen original essays, whose authors include some of the world's leading philosophers, examine themes from the work of the Cambridge philosopher G. E. Moore (1873-1958), and demonstrate his considerable continuing influence on philosophical debate. Part I bears on epistemological topics, such as scepticism about the external world, the significance of common sense, and theories of perception. Part II is devoted to themes in ethics, such as Moore's open question argument, his non-naturalism, utilitarianism, and his notion of organic unities.