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    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    A speech for the defence in a Paris murder trial, a road-safety slogan, Hobbes' political theory; each appeals to reason of a kind, but it remains an oblique and rhetoricalldnd. Each relies on comparisons rather than on direct statements, and none can override or supersede the conclusions of ethical reasoning proper. Nevertheless, just as slogans may do more for road safety than the mere recital ... Read more

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  • Cognition, Agency and Rationality

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    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

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  • The Meaning of Nouns

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  • Procedural Semantics for Hyperintensional Logic

    Foundations and Applications of Transparent Intensional Logic

    Series Book 17 - Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science
    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 ... Read more

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    Edited by P. Égré, N. Klinedinst ...
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    This volume brings together twelve papers by linguists and philosophers contributing novel empirical and formal considerations to theorizing about vagueness. Three main issues are addressed: gradable expressions and comparison, the semantics of degree adverbs and intensifiers (such as 'clearly'), and ways of evading the sorites paradox. ... Read more

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