Bounded Meaning

Author : Matthew Mandelkern
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192697129
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bounded Meaning written by Matthew Mandelkern and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-08-20 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bounded Meaning investigates the dynamics of interpretation: how and why the interpretation of the building blocks of human language is sensitive, not just to the context in which the expression is used, but also to the expression's linguistic environment—in other words, how and why interpretation depends not just on global information, but also on local information. Matthew Mandelkern motivates a range of generalizations about the dynamics of interpretation, some known and some novel, involving modals, conditionals, and anaphora, and an overview of the best extant theory of those patterns, dynamic semantics, is provided. After bringing out the striking motivations and successes of that framework, the discussion turns to criticisms of dynamic semantics, focusing on its puzzling predictions about the logic of natural language. In response to these problems, Mandelkern develops a novel framework for explaining dynamic phenomena without dynamic semantics: the bounded theory of meaning. On the bounded theory, dynamic phenomena arise from the interaction of two dimensions of meaning. One dimension is a standard truth-conditional layer, which, relative to a context of use, associates each sentence with a proposition. The second dimension, the dimension of bounds, limits the admissible interpretations of an expression, relative to the expression's context of use and its local information. Bounds thus play an essential role in coordinating on the resolution of context-sensitive language, explaining dynamic effects in natural language while avoiding a variety of problematic predictions of dynamic semantics.

Author : Karl Endel Petersen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521215129
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brownian Motion, Hardy Spaces and Bounded Mean Oscillation written by Karl Endel Petersen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1977-05-19 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exposition of research on the martingale and analytic inequalities associated with Hardy spaces and functions of bounded mean oscillation (BMO) introduces the subject by concentrating on the connection between the probabilistic and analytic approaches. Short surveys of classical results on the maximal, square and Littlewood-Paley functions and the theory of Brownian motion introduce a detailed discussion of the Burkholder-Gundy-Silverstein characterization of HP in terms of maximal functions. The book examines the basis of the abstract martingale definitions of HP and BMO, makes generally available for the first time work of Gundy et al. on characterizations of BMO, and includes a probabilistic proof of the Fefferman-Stein Theorem on the duality of H11 and BMO.

Author : Anne Melville
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1448214394
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hardie Inheritance written by Anne Melville and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third novel in the Hardie series sees Grace Hardie choosing to stay out if the marriage race. Instead, she devotes her time to her work as a sculptor, living in Greystones, the mansion she has inherited but can no longer afford to maintain in the style it deserves. Her mother and brother are the only companions in her narrow existence. Then, one summer day in 1932, four uninvited guests arrive from the outside world. Lord Rupert Beverley has discovered that the Hardies are linked to his family by marriage. Andy Frith, the gardener's son who was Grace's childhood sweetheart, returns from France to see his dying father. Ellis Faraday, the son of the architect who designed Greystones, calls for permission to photograph his father's first major work. And with him he brings Trish, his charming young daughter. The arrival of the four together will change Grace's life for unexpected happiness, wealth and fulfilment follow. But so too do family squabbles and difficult decisions about who is to become the Greystones heir. The Hardie Inheritance, the last instalment in the Hardie series was first published in 1990.

Author : Janja A. Lalich
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520384024
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bounded Choice written by Janja A. Lalich and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heaven's Gate, a secretive group of celibate "monks" awaiting pickup by a UFO, captured intense public attention in 1997 when its members committed collective suicide. As a way of understanding such perplexing events, many have seen those who join cults as needy, lost souls, unable to think for themselves. This book, a compelling look at the cult phenomenon written for a wide audience, dispels such simple formulations by explaining how normal, intelligent people can give up years of their lives—and sometimes their very lives—to groups and beliefs that appear bizarre and irrational. Looking closely at Heaven's Gate and at the Democratic Workers Party, a radical political group of the 1970s and 1980s, Janja Lalich gives us a rare insider's look at these two cults and advances a new theoretical framework that will reshape our understanding of those who join such groups. Lalich's fascinating discussion includes her in-depth interviews with cult devotees as well as reflections gained from her own experience as a high-ranking member of the Democratic Workers Party. Incorporating classical sociological concepts such as "charisma" and "commitment" with more recent work on the social psychology of influence and control, she develops a new approach for understanding how charismatic cult leaders are able to dominate their devotees. She shows how members are led into a state of "bounded choice," in which they make seemingly irrational decisions within a context that makes perfect sense to them and is, in fact, consistent with their highest aspirations. In addition to illuminating the cult phenomenon in the United States and around the world, this important book also addresses our pressing need to know more about the mentality of those true believers who take extreme or violent measures in the name of a cause.

Author : Matthew Hughey
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804783314
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book White Bound written by Matthew Hughey and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-22 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussions of race are inevitably fraught with tension, both in opinion and positioning. Too frequently, debates are framed as clear points of opposition—us versus them. And when considering white racial identity, a split between progressive movements and a neoconservative backlash is all too frequently assumed. Taken at face value, it would seem that whites are splintering into antagonistic groups, with differing worldviews, values, and ideological stances. White Bound investigates these dividing lines, questioning the very notion of a fracturing whiteness, and in so doing offers a unique view of white racial identity. Matthew Hughey spent over a year attending the meetings, reading the literature, and interviewing members of two white organizations—a white nationalist group and a white antiracist group. Though he found immediate political differences, he observed surprising similarities. Both groups make meaning of whiteness through a reliance on similar racist and reactionary stories and worldviews. On the whole, this book puts abstract beliefs and theoretical projection about the supposed fracturing of whiteness into relief against the realities of two groups never before directly compared with this much breadth and depth. By examining the similarities and differences between seemingly antithetical white groups, we see not just the many ways of being white, but how these actors make meaning of whiteness in ways that collectively reproduce both white identity and, ultimately, white supremacy.

Author : John Garnett
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387497633
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bounded Analytic Functions written by John Garnett and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-04-05 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an account of the theory of Hardy spaces in one dimension, with emphasis on some of the exciting developments of the past two decades or so. The last seven of the ten chapters are devoted in the main to these recent developments. The motif of the theory of Hardy spaces is the interplay between real, complex, and abstract analysis. While paying proper attention to each of the three aspects, the author has underscored the effectiveness of the methods coming from real analysis, many of them developed as part of a program to extend the theory to Euclidean spaces, where the complex methods are not available.

Author : MATTHEW. MANDELKERN
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780192870049
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bounded Meaning written by MATTHEW. MANDELKERN and published by . This book was released on 2024-07-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bounded Meaning develops a new theory of how and why semantic interpretation depends not just on global information, but also on local information. Mandelkern provides criticisms of the dominant theory, dynamic semantics, and proposes a new theory of bounds as limits on admissible interpretations of an expression.

Author : A. D. Aleksandrov
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486157873
Total Pages : 1123 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mathematics written by A. D. Aleksandrov and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-07 with total page 1123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major survey offers comprehensive, coherent discussions of analytic geometry, algebra, differential equations, calculus of variations, functions of a complex variable, prime numbers, linear and non-Euclidean geometry, topology, functional analysis, more. 1963 edition.

Author : Finnur Lárusson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139511041
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lectures on Real Analysis written by Finnur Lárusson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-07 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a rigorous introduction to real analysis for undergraduate students, starting from the axioms for a complete ordered field and a little set theory. The book avoids any preconceptions about the real numbers and takes them to be nothing but the elements of a complete ordered field. All of the standard topics are included, as well as a proper treatment of the trigonometric functions, which many authors take for granted. The final chapters of the book provide a gentle, example-based introduction to metric spaces with an application to differential equations on the real line. The author's exposition is concise and to the point, helping students focus on the essentials. Over 200 exercises of varying difficulty are included, many of them adding to the theory in the text. The book is perfect for second-year undergraduates and for more advanced students who need a foundation in real analysis.

Author : Gerd Gigerenzer
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262571647
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bounded Rationality written by Gerd Gigerenzer and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2002-07-26 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a complex and uncertain world, humans and animals make decisions under the constraints of limited knowledge, resources, and time. Yet models of rational decision making in economics, cognitive science, biology, and other fields largely ignore these real constraints and instead assume agents with perfect information and unlimited time. About forty years ago, Herbert Simon challenged this view with his notion of "bounded rationality." Today, bounded rationality has become a fashionable term used for disparate views of reasoning. This book promotes bounded rationality as the key to understanding how real people make decisions. Using the concept of an "adaptive toolbox," a repertoire of fast and frugal rules for decision making under uncertainty, it attempts to impose more order and coherence on the idea of bounded rationality. The contributors view bounded rationality neither as optimization under constraints nor as the study of people's reasoning fallacies. The strategies in the adaptive toolbox dispense with optimization and, for the most part, with calculations of probabilities and utilities. The book extends the concept of bounded rationality from cognitive tools to emotions; it analyzes social norms, imitation, and other cultural tools as rational strategies; and it shows how smart heuristics can exploit the structure of environments.