Things Facts And Events

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900445781X
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Things, Facts and Events written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume deals with ontological and semantical issues concerning things, facts and events. Ontology tells us about what there is, whereas semantics provides answers to how we refer to what there is. Basic ontological categories are commonly accepted along with basic linguistic types, and linguistic types are accepted as basic if and because they refer to acknowledged ontological categories. In that sense, both disciplines are concerned with structure - the structure of the world and the structure of our language. An extended introduction overviews the topic as a whole, presenting in detail its history and the main contemporary approaches and discussions. More than 20 contributions by internationally acknowledged scholars make the volume a comprehensive study of some very fundamental philosophical entities.

Author : Joe Rhatigan
Publisher : Charlesbridge
ISBN 13 : 160734419X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bizarre History written by Joe Rhatigan and published by Charlesbridge. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is history served up high-octane, with all of the fun and none of the boredom. It's not about memorizing lists of dates or names, or remembering which general won what battle. Instead, BIZARRE HISTORY merrily digs up the scandals, the strangeness, and the scintillating details that illuminate personalities, events, and real life. Think of it not as a textbook, but as history?s juicy unauthorized biography--a historical document in which relevance never gets in the way of a good read. There are humorous quotes from famous figures such as Mark Twain and Napoleon ("History is a myth that men agree to believe"), as well as witty commentary about leaders of the past. After all, while you're probably familiar with William the Conquerer, have you heard of Charles the Simple, ruler of France and son of Louis the Stammerer? What about the emperor who entered Rome in a chariot drawn by 50 naked slaves?and invented the first whoopee cushion, too? But you can find lots of wildness closer to home: George Washington wrote love letters to a married woman; "Old Hickory" Andrew Jackson had been in at least seven duels before becoming president; and Benjamin Franklin fathered an illegitimate child. Paranoia also plagued a few of our presidents: the only thing Franklin Roosevelt had to fear was the number 13: he wouldn't invite 13 guests to a dinner party or travel on the 13th. And both Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan had encounters with UFOs! The fun facts span the globe, covering the crazy acts of Caligula in the Roman Empire; the "Dog Shogun" in 17th century Japan; the "Pork and Beans" war between the US and Canada; and even details about fashion, medicine, sports, and the real Dracula. It's a wild journey that no one could resist!

Author : Hugh Chisholm
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1016 pages
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Download or read book The Encyclopaedia Britannica written by Hugh Chisholm and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Hirstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199231907
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mindmelding written by William Hirstein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-26 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this important and controversial new book, William Hirstein argues that it is possible for one person to directly experience the conscious states of another, by way of what he calls mindmelding. Drawing on a range of research from neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy, he presents a highly original new account of consciousness.

Author : David NASMITH (Barrister-at-Law)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
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Download or read book The Institutes of English Public Law, Etc written by David NASMITH (Barrister-at-Law) and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Frederic Chamberlayne
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1030 pages
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Download or read book Hand Book on the Law of Evidence written by Charles Frederic Chamberlayne and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : P.L. Peterson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401589593
Total Pages : 417 pages
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Download or read book Fact Proposition Event written by P.L. Peterson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `Peterson is an authority of a philosophical and linguistic industry that began in the 1960s with Vendler's work on nominalization. Natural languages distinguish syntactically and semantically between various sorts of what might be called `gerundive entities' - events, processes, states of affairs, propositions, facts, ... all referred to by sentence nominals of various kinds. Philosophers have worried for millennia over the ontology of such things or `things', but until twenty years ago they ignored all the useful linguistic evidence. Vendler not only began to straighten out the distinctions, but pursued more specific and more interesting questions such as that of what entities the causality relation relates (events? facts?). And that of the objects of knowledge and belief. But Vendler's work was only a start and Peterson has continued the task from then until now, both philosophically and linguistically. Fact Proposition Event constitutes the state of the art regarding gerundive entities, defended in meticulous detail. Peterson's ontology features just facts, proposition, and events, carefully distinguished from each other. Among his more specific achievements are: a nice treatment of the linguist's distinction between `factive' and nonfactive constructions; a detailed theory of the subjects and objects of causation, which impinges nicely on action theory; an interesting argument that fact, proposition, events are innate ideas in humans; a theory of complex events (with implications for law and philosophy of law); and an overall picture of syntax and semantics of causal sentences and action sentences. Though Peterson does not pursue them here, there are clear and significant implications for the philosophy of science, in particular for our understanding of scientific causation, causal explanation and law likeness.' Professor William Lycan, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Author : Noah Webster
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1120 pages
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Download or read book An American Dictionary of the English Language written by Noah Webster and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 1120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Austin
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
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Download or read book Lectures on Jurisprudence, Or, The Philosophy of Positive Law written by John Austin and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rüdiger Bittner
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0195143647
Total Pages : 217 pages
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Download or read book Doing Things for Reasons written by Rüdiger Bittner and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2001 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People do things for reasons, but what are reasons and how are they related to the resulting actions? Bittner explores this question and proposes an answer: a reason is a response to that state of affairs.