Essays In Linguistic Ontology

Author : Jack Kaminsky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays in Linguistic Ontology written by Jack Kaminsky and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Metaphysical questions relating to what ex­ists do not seem to fade away" notes Jack Kaminsky in this book, which takes as its starting point the Quinian view that we de­termine what exists by means of the formal systems we construct to explain the world. This starting point, Kaminsky points out, is not novel; philosophers have often tried to construct formal systems, and from these systems they have been able to deduce what can be said to exist. Contemporary formal systems are different from earlier ones, how­ever, because they make more extensive use of the results of linguistics, logic, and mathe­matics studies. But these contemporary formal systems also must state eventually what their commitments to existence are, and they must be able to show their commit­ments to be free of paradox, ambiguity, and contradiction. Given these conditions, Kaminsky exam­ines the difficulties inherent in the existence claims of contemporary formal language systems. To do this he uses only a minimum of the technical elements of propositional and first-order quantificational logic. He concludes: many existential commitments are relative to the formal systems of time; some commitments seem to be absolute; and some problems--those relating to vacuous terms--arise only because no distinction is made between humanly constructed objects and naturally constructed objects.

Author : Christina Behme
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027263949
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays on Linguistic Realism written by Christina Behme and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains new articles by leading philosophers and linguists discussing a promising philosophical framework distinct from currently dominant ones: Linguistic Realism. As opposed to Nominalism and Chomskyian Conceptualism, this approach distinguishes between use of language, knowledge of language, and language as such. The latter is conceived as part of the realm of abstract objects. The authors show how adopting Linguistic Realism overcomes entrenched problems with other frameworks and suggest that Linguistic Realism will best serve those interested in formal linguistics, the cognitive dimension of natural language, and linguistic philosophy. The essays offer different perspectives on Linguistic Realism, either supporting this paradigm or taking it as a starting point for developing modified conceptions of linguistics and for further tying linguistics to the kind of formal theories of sensory cognition that were pioneered in visual perception by David Marr—whose work is predicated on exactly the object/knowledge distinction made by Linguistic Realists.

Author : Steven Gross
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815340386
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays on Linguistic Context-sensitivity and Its Philosophical Significance written by Steven Gross and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon research in philosophical logic, linguistics and cognitive science, this study explores how our ability to use and understand language depends upon our capacity to keep track of complex features of the contexts in which we converse.

Author : David Chalmers
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199546045
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Metametaphysics written by David Chalmers and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metaphysics asks questions about existence: for example, do numbers really exist? Metametaphysics asksquestions about metaphysics: for example, do its questions have determinate answers? If so, are these answers deep and important, or are they merely a matter of how we use words? What is the proper methodology for their resolution? These questions have received a heightened degree of attention lately with new varieties of ontological deflationism and pluralism challenging the kind of realism that has become orthodoxy in contemporary analytic metaphysics.This volume concerns the status and ambitions of metaphysics as a discipline. It brings together many of the central figures in the debate with their most recent work on the semantics, epistemology, and methodology of metaphysics.

Author : Francesco Orilia
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401150524
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thought, Language, and Ontology written by Francesco Orilia and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late Hector-Neri Castañeda, the Mahlon Powell Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University, and founding editor of Noûs, has deeply influenced current analytic pjilosophy with diverse contributions, including guise theory, the theory on indicators and quasi-indicators, and the proposition/practition theory. This volume collects 15 papers - for the most part previously unpublished - in ontology, philosophy of language, cognitive science and related areas by ex-students of Professor Castañeda, most of whom are now well-known researchers or even distinguished scholars. The authors share the conviction that Castañeda's work must continue to be explored and that his philosophical methodology must continue to be applied in an effort to further illuminate all the issues that he so deeply investigated. The topics covered by the contributions include intensional contexts, possible worlds, quasi-indicators, guise theory, property theory, Russell's substitutional theory of propositions, event theory, the adverbial theory of mental attitudes, existentialist ontology, and Plato's, Leibniz's, Kant's and Peirce's ontologies. An introduction by the editors relates all these themes to Castañeda's philosophical interests and methodology.

Author : Gaetano Licata, 1974- [VNV]
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788820458447
Total Pages : 168 pages
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Download or read book Philosophical Essays on Language, Ontology and Science written by Gaetano Licata, 1974- [VNV] and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Margaret Cameron
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191046337
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Linguistic Content written by Margaret Cameron and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-03-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophy of language has a rich and varied history stretching back to the Ancient Greeks. Twelve specially written essays explore this richness, from Plato and Aristotle, through the Stoics, to medieval thinkers, both Islamic and Christian; from the Renaissance and the early modern period, all the way up to the twentieth Century. Among the many topics that arise across this 2500-year trajectory are metaphysical questions about linguistic content. A first focal point of the volume is the issue of which broad ontological family linguistic contents belong to. Are linguistic contents mental ideas, physical particulars, abstract Forms, social practices, or something else again? And do different sorts of linguistic contents belong to different ontological categories-e.g., might it be that names stand for ideas, whereas logical terms stand for mental processes? The second focal point is the metaphysical grounding of linguistic content: that is, in virtue of what more basic facts do content facts obtain? Do words mean what they do because of natural resemblances? Because of causal relations? Because of arbitrary conventional usage? Or because of some combination of the above?

Author : Herbert Hochberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
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Download or read book Logic, Ontology, and Language written by Herbert Hochberg and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chase B. Wrenn
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781433102295
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Naturalism, Reference, and Ontology written by Chase B. Wrenn and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naturalism, Reference, and Ontology is a collection of twelve original essays honoring Roger F. Gibson, who has been a leading proponent and defender of W. V. Quine's philosophy for nearly thirty years. The essays address a wide range of topics, including normativity and naturalized epistemology, holism, consciousness, the philosophy of logic, perception, value theory, and the arts. The contributors are an international group of prominent philosophers as well as rising scholars including: Robert Barrett, Lars Bergström, Richard Creath, David Henderson, Terence Horgan, Ernest Lepore, Pete Mandik, Alex Orenstein, Kenneth Shockley, J. Robert Thompson, Josefa Toribio, Joseph Ullian, Josh Weisberg, and Chase B. Wrenn.

Author : Thomas Augustine Francis Kelly
Publisher : Maynooth Bicentenary Series
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language, World, and God written by Thomas Augustine Francis Kelly and published by Maynooth Bicentenary Series. This book was released on 1996 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To learn more about Rowman & Littlefield titles please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com.