Logical Or Ludicrous

Author : J. Peter Maher
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027209049
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creation and Tradition in Language written by J. Peter Maher and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest in word-meaning is on the increase among mainstream linguists again after a half-century of neglect. During this interval progress in phonology and syntax was great, but further progress in these sub-disciplines will remain blocked until it is recognized that the prime functional unit of speech is the word, that the central problem of language theory is lexis. Word-meaning is typically complicated by changes across time; for a theory of language creativity, these effects must be discerned from spontaneous creation. The articles brought together in this volume attempt to illuminate, on the basis of particular lexical studies, the dynamics of perception and word-meaning, of language and mind. [No further volumes appeared]

Author : Ben La Farge
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137465689
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Logic of Wish and Fear: New Perspectives on Genres of Western Fiction written by Ben La Farge and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving effortlessly from Greek to Shakespearean tragedies, to nineteenth and twentieth-century British, American and Russian drama, and fiction and contemporary television, this study sheds new light on the art of comedy.

Author : Floriane Place-Verghnes
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780861966592
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tex Avery written by Floriane Place-Verghnes and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-09 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by Floriane Place-Verghnes, this is a study of the work of the great animator Tex Avery.

Author : Michael Dummett
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191520055
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frege and Other Philosophers written by Michael Dummett and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1991-02-14 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ideas of the German philosopher and mathematician Gottlob Frege lie at the root of the analytic movement in philosophy; Michael Dummett is his leading modern critical interpreter and one of today's most eminent philosophers. This volume collects together fifteen of Dummett's classic essays on Frege and related subjects.

Author : Mark Johnson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022602699X
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Meaning of the Body written by Mark Johnson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-06-29 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Meaning of the Body, Mark Johnson continues his pioneering work on the exciting connections between cognitive science, language, and meaning first begun in the classic Metaphors We Live By. Johnson uses recent research into infant psychology to show how the body generates meaning even before self-consciousness has fully developed. From there he turns to cognitive neuroscience to further explore the bodily origins of meaning, thought, and language and examines the many dimensions of meaning—including images, qualities, emotions, and metaphors—that are all rooted in the body’s physical encounters with the world. Drawing on the psychology of art and pragmatist philosophy, Johnson argues that all of these aspects of meaning-making are fundamentally aesthetic. He concludes that the arts are the culmination of human attempts to find meaning and that studying the aesthetic dimensions of our experience is crucial to unlocking meaning's bodily sources. Throughout, Johnson puts forth a bold new conception of the mind rooted in the understanding that philosophy will matter to nonphilosophers only if it is built on a visceral connection to the world. “Mark Johnson demonstrates that the aesthetic and emotional aspects of meaning are fundamental—central to conceptual meaning and reason, and that the arts show meaning-making in its fullest realization. If you were raised with the idea that art and emotion were external to ideas and reason, you must read this book. It grounds philosophy in our most visceral experience.”—George Lakoff, author of Moral Politics

Author : Jacob M. Van Zyl
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1434314251
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Yeast of Yerushalaim written by Jacob M. Van Zyl and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE YEAST OF YERUSHALAIM. Jesus said that the Kingdom of God is like yeast. As yeast is worked into the dough and changes its structure positively, so the gospel is dispersed into societies and changes them from the inside. To mix the yeast of the gospel into societies, Jesus sent His disciples out to make disciples of all nations: "You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth" (Acts 1:8). Jerusalem is pronounced Yerushalaim in Hebrew. In this city Jesus was crucified, raised from the dead, and ascended to heaven, and to this city He will return. In Jerusalem, the Holy Spirit came into the hearts of believers, inspiring them to spread the gospel worldwide. The Acts and letters of the apostles show how the yeast spread throughout the Roman empire in the first century. When the yeast of Yerushalaim has done its work, Christ will return to renew heaven, earth, and Jerusalem.

Author : William Henry Stanley Monck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Logic written by William Henry Stanley Monck and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. C. Gregory
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
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Download or read book The Nature of Laughter written by J. C. Gregory and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Burke
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226080703
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dewey's New Logic written by Thomas Burke and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998-05-22 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated for his work in the philosophy of education and acknowledged as a leading proponent of American pragmatism, John Dewey might have had more of a reputation for his philosophy of logic had Bertrand Russell not so fervidly attacked him on the subject. This book analyzes the debate between Russell and Dewey that followed the 1938 publication of Dewey's Logic: The Theory of Inquiry, and argues that, despite Russell's early resistance, Dewey's logic is surprisingly relevant to recent developments in philosophy and cognitive science. Since Dewey's logic focuses on natural language in everyday experience, it poses a challenge to Russell's formal syntactic conception of logic. Tom Burke demonstrates that Russell misunderstood crucial aspects of Dewey's theory - his ideas on propositions, judgments, inquiry, situations, and warranted assertibility - and contends that logic today has progressed beyond Russell and is approaching Dewey's broader perspective. Burke relates Dewey's logic to issues in epistemology, philosophy of language and psychology, computer science, and formal semantics.

Author : Mike Hockney
Publisher : Magus Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gödel Versus Wittgenstein written by Mike Hockney and published by Magus Books. This book was released on with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps nothing has been more misinterpreted than Gödel's incompleteness theorems. Stephen Hawking, adopting the popular misconception, said, "Thus mathematics is either inconsistent, or incomplete. The smart money is on incomplete." If mathematics is tautology, as Wittgenstein said, mathematics cannot be inconsistent and/or incomplete, and so Gödel's work cannot be about mathematics. If mathematics is not tautological, mathematics is mired in inconsistency and/or incompleteness, just as Stephen Hawking said, hence is unreliable. If mathematics is non-ontological, it cannot say anything about reality. If mathematics is ontological, it's the only thing that can say anything true about reality. There can't be a world where math is a bit true and a bit false. Either the world is wholly mathematical – in which case math and not science is how we must study the world – or the world isn't mathematical at all, in which case it's absurd for science to use math.