Referring To The World

Author : Kenneth A. Taylor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780195144741

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Referring to the World by Kenneth A. Taylor Pdf

Our words and ideas refer to objects and properties in the external world; this phenomenon is central to thought, language, communication, and science. But great works of fiction are full of names that don't seem to refer to anything! In this book Kenneth A. Taylor explores the myriad of problems that surround the phenomenon of reference. How can words in language and perturbations in our brains come to stand for external objects? Reference is essential to truth, but which is more basic: reference or truth? How can fictional characters play such an important role in imagination and literature, and how does this use of language connect with more mundane uses? Taylor develops a framework for understanding reference, and the theories that other thinkers-past and present-have developed about it. But Taylor doesn't simply tell us what others thought; the book is full of new ideas and analyses, making for a vital final contribution from a seminal philosopher.

Author : Thomas Stone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590946763

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The affairs of this world all ordered with a reference to the welfare of the Church, a sermon by Thomas Stone Pdf

Author : Bernard Bosanquet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Logic
ISBN : PSU:000008101433

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Logic by Bernard Bosanquet Pdf

Author : Thomas L. Friedman
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-07
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0374292787

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The World Is Flat [Further Updated and Expanded; Release 3.0] by Thomas L. Friedman Pdf

Explores globalization, its opportunities for individual empowerment, its achievements at lifting millions out of poverty, and its drawbacks--environmental, social, and political.

Author : Victor Preller
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005-05-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781597521987

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Divine Science and the Science of God by Victor Preller Pdf

In this book, Victor Preller examines the logical status of religious language in the light of recent developments in American analytic philosophy. The problem inherent in religious language is presented in terms of the referential status of the word God. The author argues that the significance of any referential term is dependent upon the ability of that term to play a significant role 'within' a unified conceptual system. The problem is shown to transcend the epistemological dogmas of Positivism and Conceptual Empiricism and to be inherent in any intelligible epistemology, including that of Thomas Aquinas, whose theological treatises serve as a model of religious language for the thesis of this book. According to Professor Preller, Divine Science (Aquinas' term for what we now call Natural Theology) results from a reflection upon the limitations encountered by the intellect in its attempt to render intelligible the objects of human experience. In the Science of God (Aquinas' term for that mode of knowing engendered by faith), the unknown meta-empirical referent of Divine Science becomes the object of the human intellect. While this study develops out of the discussions inaugurated by Flew and McIntyre in 'New Essays in Philosophical Theology', it rejects the excessively empirical approach of most other studies in that tradition. It applies post-positivistic analysis to specifically Catholic theological language, but it obviously applies to the theological language involved in any form of theism.

Author : Thomas Bonk
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401701518

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Language, Truth and Knowledge by Thomas Bonk Pdf

This collection will prove a valuable resource for our understanding of the historic Carnap and the living philosophical issues with which he grappled. It arose out of a symposium on Carnap's work (Vienna, 2001). With essays by Graham H. Bird, Jaakko Hintikka, Ilkka Niiniluoto, Jan Wolenski, this volume will interest graduate students of the philosophy of language and logic, as well as professional philosophers, historians of analytic philosophy, and philosophically inclined logicians.

Author : Dan Cardinal,Jeremy Hayward,Gerald Jones
Publisher : Hodder Education
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781471835094

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AQA AS Philosophy by Dan Cardinal,Jeremy Hayward,Gerald Jones Pdf

Help students navigate key concepts and philosophical arguments and develop their own points of view with our clear, engaging AS Philosophy textbook, written for the new AQA AS Philosophy specification Written by the authors of Philosophy in Focus, this book covers both units, Epistemology and Philosophy of Religion, and supports students in understanding difficult material through a clear style and visual examples of concepts and ideas. - Encourages students to engage with the anthology texts with clear prompts to read the relevant extracts, helpfully provided at the back of the book for ease of teaching and studying - Cements knowledge and understanding of key philosophical ideas through varied activities - Develops analytical skills and students' own philosophical viewpoints through practical tasks - Stretches students with clearly signposted extension material Contents Introduction Introduction to Descartes' Meditations Section 1: Epistemology Section 2: Philosophy of Religion Section 3: Preparing for the exam 3.1 How to approach the exam 3.2 How to read philosophy Section 4: Anthology extracts Glossary Notes Selected bibliography Index

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9780857861016

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Revelation by Anonim Pdf

The final book of the Bible, Revelation prophesies the ultimate judgement of mankind in a series of allegorical visions, grisly images and numerological predictions. According to these, empires will fall, the "Beast" will be destroyed and Christ will rule a new Jerusalem. With an introduction by Will Self.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015069385303

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Manford's Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1448 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Communism
ISBN : UCAL:B5203608

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Scope of Soviet Activity in the United States by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Author : Andrew Simpson,Audrey-Li Yen-hui
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006-03-03
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781134431380

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Functional Structure(s), Form and Interpretation by Andrew Simpson,Audrey-Li Yen-hui Pdf

Part PART I in the DP/NP -- chapter 1 NP as argument -- chapter 2 Copying variables -- chapter 3 Classi?ers and the count/mass distinction -- chapter 4 The demonstratives in modern Japanese -- part PART II of functional structure -- chapter 5 On the Re-Analysis of nominalizers in Chinese, Japanese and Korean -- chapter 6 Three types of existential quantification in Chinese -- chapter 7 On the history of place words and localizers in Chinese: A cognitive approach -- chapter PART III principles of organization -- chapter 8 Judgments, point of view and the interpretation of causee noun phrases -- chapter 9 A computational approach to case and word order in Korean -- chapter 10 Adjuncts and word order typology in east asian languages -- chapter 11 The distribution of negative NPS and some typological correlates.

Author : John H. Wiersema,Blanca León
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 1336 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781466576810

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World Economic Plants by John H. Wiersema,Blanca León Pdf

Given the frequent movement of commercial plants outside their native location, the consistent and standard use of plant names for proper identification and communication has become increasingly important. This second edition of World Economic Plants: A Standard Reference is a key tool in the maintenance of standards for the basic science underlyin

Author : Errol P. Mendes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781134443543

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Global Governance, Human Rights and International Law by Errol P. Mendes Pdf

This book offers a stimulating introduction to the links between areas of global governance, human rights global economy and international law. By drawing on a range of diverse subject areas, Errol P. Mendes argues that the foundations of global governance, human rights and international law are undermined by a conflict or ‘tragic flaw’, where insistence on absolute conceptions of state sovereignty are pitted against universally accepted principles of justice and human rights resulting in destructive self-interest for both the state and the global community. The book explores how human rights and international law are applied in some of the critical institutions of global governance and in the operations of the global private sector, and how States, institutions and global civil society struggle to fight this ‘tragic flaw’. The book is brought up to date by considering developments in the role of the IMF, the World Bank, bilateral investment treaties; the likely failure of the Doha round of WTO negotiations; the legacy of the 2008 financial crisis; and the role of the International Criminal Court and the evolving Responsibility to Protect doctrine in international peace and security crises in the Middle East, Central and West Africa among other regions of the world. With its intensely interdisciplinary approach, this book motivates new thinking in the realm of global governance and international law, and promotes the development of new strategies for negotiating between conflicting leadership and organisational values within global institutions. The book will be of great interest and use to students and researchers of public international law, international relations and political science, business and human rights, global governance and international trade and economic law.

Author : János Mátyás Kovács,Marton Tardos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1992-06-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134920266

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Reform and Transformation in Eastern Europe by János Mátyás Kovács,Marton Tardos Pdf

First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Daniel S. Campagna
Publisher : Mark Twain Media
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-22
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781624422393

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World Governments, Grades 6 - 12 by Daniel S. Campagna Pdf

Compare the US government to governments from around the world. While the text is supported with appropriate questions and activities for each level, the bonus content supplies essay options, puzzles, logic problems, and whiteboard resources. World Governments promotes content literacy, leveled reading, critical thinking, an understanding of technology, individual and small-group instruction, and more. Section topics include types of world governments, an examination of each continent, ratings and rankings, the United Nations, International Law, and more! It also supports NCSS standards. Mark Twain Media Publishing Company specializes in providing captivating, supplemental books and decorative resources to complement middle- and upper-grade classrooms. Designed by leading educators, the product line covers a range of subjects including mathematics, sciences, language arts, social studies, history, government, fine arts, and character. Mark Twain Media also provides innovative classroom solutions for bulletin boards and interactive whiteboards. Since 1977, Mark Twain Media has remained a reliable source for a wide variety of engaging classroom resources.