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  • Modality and Meaning

    by W.G. Lycan ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Part I of this book presents a theory of modal metaphysics in the possible-worlds tradition. `Worlds' themselves are understood as structured sets of properties; this `Ersatzist' view is defended against its most vigorous competitors, Meinongianism and David Lewis' theory of existent concrete worlds. Related issues of essentialism and linguistic reference are explored.Part II takes up the question ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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  • Procedural Semantics for Hyperintensional Logic

    Foundations and Applications of Transparent Intensional Logic

    by Pavel Materna, Marie Duží, Bjorn Jespersen ...
    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

    $188.09 USD

  • 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

  • Logic and Lexicon

    The Semantics of the Indefinite

    Translated by Geoffrey Simmons ...
    by Manfred Pinkal ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Semantic underspecification is an essential and pervasive property of natural language. This monograph provides a comprehensive survey of the various phenomena in the field of ambiguity and vagueness. The book discusses the major theories of semantic indefiniteness, which have been proposed in linguistics, philosophy and computer science. It argues for a view of indefiniteness as the potential for ... Read more

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  • Victor Dudman's Grammar and Semantics

    by J. Curthoys, V. Dudman ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Victor Dudman's revolutionary English Grammar brings grammar and logic together by conceiving grammar as 'the necessary preliminary to logic'. The focus, for logicians, is the discussion of 'conditionals'; for grammarians it is the concise and accurate explanation of the infamous English modals. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Singular Reference: A Descriptivist Perspective

    by Francesco Orilia ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Singular reference to ourselves and the ordinary objects surrounding us is a most crucial philosophical topic, for it looms large in any attempt to understand how language and mind connect to the world. This book explains in detail why in the past philosophers such as Frege, Russell and Reichenbach have favoured a descriptivist approach to this matter and why in more recent times Donnellan, Kripke ... Read more

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  • Lingua Universalis vs. Calculus Ratiocinator:

    An Ultimate Presupposition of Twentieth-Century Philosophy

    by Jaakko Hintikka ...
    Series Book 2 - Jaakko Hintikka Selected Papers
    R. G. Collingwood saw one of the main tasks of philosophers and of historians of human thought in uncovering what he called the ultimate presuppositions of different thinkers, of different philosophical movements and of entire eras of intellectual history. He also noted that such ultimate presuppositions usually remain tacit at first, and are discovered only by subsequent reflection. Collingwood ... Read more

    $206.99 USD

  • Individuals, Essence and Identity

    Themes of Analytic Metaphysics

    Edited by Massimiliano Carrara, P. Giaretta, A. Bottani ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Andrea Bottani Massimiliano Carrara Pierdaniele Giaretta What do we do when we do metaphysics? The aim of this introduction is to give a provisional answer to this question, and then to explain the subtitle of the volume. It is easy to observe that when we do meta physics we engage in a linguistic activity, mainly consisting of uttering declarative sentences that are not very clear to most people. ... Read more

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  • Vagueness: A Guide

    Edited by Giuseppina Ronzitti ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume explores how vagueness matters as a specific problem in the context of theories that are primarily about something else. After an introductory chapter on the Sorites paradox, which exposes the various forms the paradox can take and some of the responses that have been pursued, the book proceeds with a chapter on vagueness and metaphysics, which covers important questions concerning ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • Objects and Modalities

    A Study in the Semantics of Modal Logic

    by Tero Tulenheimo ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book develops a novel generalization of possible world semantics, called ‘world line semantics’, which recognizes worlds and links between world-bound objects (world lines) as mutually independent aspects of modal semantics. Addressing a wide range of questions vital for contemporary debates in logic and philosophy of language and offering new tools for theoretical linguistics and knowledge ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Narration as Argument

    Edited by Paula Olmos ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book presents reflections on the relationship between narratives and argumentative discourse. It focuses on their functional and structural similarities or dissimilarities, and offers diverse perspectives and conceptual tools for analyzing the narratives’ potential power for justification, explanation and persuasion. Divided into two sections, the first Part, under the title “Narratives as ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Judgment and Sachverhalt

    An Introduction to Adolf Reinach’s Phenomenological Realism

    by J.M. Dubois ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Adolf Reinach was one of the leading figures of the Munich and Göttingen circles of phenomenology, and Husserl's first real co-worker. Although his writings are highly original and remarkably clear, Reinach's tragic death in the First World War prevented him from formulating a definitive statement of his phenomenology, leaving his name virtually unknown to all but a small circle.In his ground ... Read more

    $89.09 USD