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Word Meaning and Belief

Author : S.G. Pulman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134995075
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Word Meaning and Belief written by S.G. Pulman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1983, the aim of this book is to diagnose linguists’ failure to advance satisfactory theories of lexical meaning, then to propose the requirements that such a theory should meet and, drawing on work in philosophy and psychology, to take the first steps towards satisfying these requirements. It begins by discussing the work of Quine on the indeterminacy of translation and it is shown that attempts by linguists to answer Quine’s arguments by proposing universal ‘semantic primitives’ or their equivalents is unsatisfactory. The relation between the theory of word meaning and the theory of categorisation is explored, and an alternative to Rosch’s ‘family resemblance’ account of the ‘prototype’ effect in both nouns and verbs is provided. The author argues that identification of certain implicit categories like ‘action’ and ‘event’ can be related to principles of individuation, and builds on the work of Kripke and Putnam on proper names and natural kind terms. This book will be of interest to students of linguistics and the philosophy of language.

The Meaning of Belief

Author : Tim Crane
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674982738
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book The Meaning of Belief written by Tim Crane and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] lucid and thoughtful book... In a spirit of reconciliation, Crane proposes to paint a more accurate picture of religion for his fellow unbelievers.” —James Ryerson, New York Times Book Review Contemporary debate about religion seems to be going nowhere. Atheists persist with their arguments, many plausible and some unanswerable, but these make no impact on religious believers. Defenders of religion find atheists equally unwilling to cede ground. The Meaning of Belief offers a way out of this stalemate. An atheist himself, Tim Crane writes that there is a fundamental flaw with most atheists’ basic approach: religion is not what they think it is. Atheists tend to treat religion as a kind of primitive cosmology, as the sort of explanation of the universe that science offers. They conclude that religious believers are irrational, superstitious, and bigoted. But this view of religion is almost entirely inaccurate. Crane offers an alternative account based on two ideas. The first is the idea of a religious impulse: the sense people have of something transcending the world of ordinary experience, even if it cannot be explicitly articulated. The second is the idea of identification: the fact that religion involves belonging to a specific social group and participating in practices that reinforce the bonds of belonging. Once these ideas are properly understood, the inadequacy of atheists’ conventional conception of religion emerges. The Meaning of Belief does not assess the truth or falsehood of religion. Rather, it looks at the meaning of religious belief and offers a way of understanding it that both makes sense of current debate and also suggests what more intellectually responsible and practically effective attitudes atheists might take to the phenomenon of religion.

The Meaning of Belief

Author : Tim Crane
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674088832
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Meaning of Belief written by Tim Crane and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion and the atheist's point of view -- The religious impulse -- Identification -- Religion and violence -- The meaning of tolerance

Words Without Meaning

Author : Christopher Gauker
Publisher : Christopher Gauker
ISBN 13 : 0262072424
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Words Without Meaning written by Christopher Gauker and published by Christopher Gauker. This book was released on 2003 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critique of, and alternative to, the received view of linguistic communication.

Maps of Meaning

Author : Jordan B. Peterson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135961751
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Maps of Meaning written by Jordan B. Peterson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why have people from different cultures and eras formulated myths and stories with similar structures? What does this similarity tell us about the mind, morality, and structure of the world itself? From the author of 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos comes a provocative hypothesis that explores the connection between what modern neuropsychology tells us about the brain and what rituals, myths, and religious stories have long narrated. A cutting-edge work that brings together neuropsychology, cognitive science, and Freudian and Jungian approaches to mythology and narrative, Maps ofMeaning presents a rich theory that makes the wisdom and meaning of myth accessible to the critical modern mind.

The Meaning of the Word

Author : S. R. Burge
Publisher : Qur'anic Studies
ISBN 13 : 9780198724131
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (241 download)

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Download or read book The Meaning of the Word written by S. R. Burge and published by Qur'anic Studies. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-487) and index.

The Belief in a Just World

Author : Melvin Lerner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1489904484
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (899 download)

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Download or read book The Belief in a Just World written by Melvin Lerner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "belief in a just world" is an attempt to capmre in a phrase one of the ways, if not the way, that people come to terms with-make sense out of-find meaning in, their experiences. We do not believe that things just happen in our world; there is a pattern to events which conveys not only a sense of orderli ness or predictability, but also the compelling experience of appropriateness ex pressed in the typically implicit judgment, "Yes, that is the way it should be." There are probably many reasons why people discover or develop a view of their environment in which events occur for good, understandable reasons. One explanation is simply that this view of reality is a direct reflection of the way both the human mind and the environment are constructed. Constancies, patterns which actually do exist in the environment-out there-are perceived, represented symbolically, and retained in the mind. This approach cenainly has some validity, and would probably suffice, if it were not for that sense of "appropriateness," the pervasive affective com ponent in human experience. People have emotions and feelings, and these are especially apparent in their expectations about their world: their hopes, fears, disappointments, disillusionment, surprise, confidence, trust, despondency, anticipation-and certainly their sense of right, wrong, good, bad, ought, en titled, fair, deserving, just.

The Meaning of Meaning

Author : Charles Kay Ogden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book The Meaning of Meaning written by Charles Kay Ogden and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Meaning and End of Religion

Author : Wilfred Cantwell Smith
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 9781451420142
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Meaning and End of Religion written by Wilfred Cantwell Smith and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilfred Cantwell Smith, maintained in this vastly important work that Westerners have misperceived religious life by making "religion" into one thing. He shows the inadequacy of "religion" to capture the living, endlessly variable ways and traditions in which religious faith presents itself in the world.

The Life of Meaning

Author : Bob Abernethy
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 1609800001
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Meaning written by Bob Abernethy and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PBS's Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly, which Bob Abernethy conceived and anchors, has been described as "the best spot on the television landscape to take in the broad view of the spiritual dimension of American life . . ." by the Christian Science Monitor. "Finally," wrote the San Francisco Chronicle, "something intelligent on TV about religion." Now, together with his coauthor William Bole, Abernethy has turned his attention to making a book that asks all the big questions—and elicits the most surprising answers from a who’s-who of today’s serious religious and spiritual thinkers from across the spectrum of faiths and denominations. In this thoughtful collection, extraordinary people give their personal and private accounts of their own spiritual struggle. Their insights on community, prayer, suffering, religious observance, the choice to live with or without a god, and the meanings that are gleaned from everyday life form an elegant meditation on the desire for something beyond what we can see and measure. More than fifty contributors, including Jimmy Carter, Francis Collins, The Dalai Lama, Robert Franklin, Irving Greenberg, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Harold Kushner, Anne Lamott, Madeleine L’Engle, Thomas Lynch, Martin Marty, Mark Noll, Rachel Remen, Marilynne Robinson, Barbara Brown Taylor, Studs Terkel, Thich Nhat Hanh, Phyllis Tickle, Desmond Tutu, Jean Vanier, and Marianne Williamson.

Vocabulary for the study of religion

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789004290433
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Vocabulary for the study of religion written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Meaning and Normativity

Author : Allan Gibbard
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198708025
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Meaning and Normativity written by Allan Gibbard and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014-08 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does talk of meaning mean? All thinking consists in natural happenings in the brain. Talk of meaning though, has resisted interpretation in terms of anything that is clearly natural, such as linguistic dispositions. This, Kripke's Wittgenstein suggests, is because the concept of meaning is normative, on the 'ought' side of Hume's divide between is and ought. Allan Gibbard's previous books Wise Choices, Apt Feelings and Thinking How to Live treated normative discourse as a natural phenomenon, but not as describing the world naturalistically. His theory is a form of expressivism for normative concepts, holding, roughly, that normative statements express states of planning. This new book integrates his expressivism for normative language with a theory of how the meaning of meaning could be normative. The result applies to itself: metaethics expands to address key topics in the philosophy of language, topics which in turn include core parts of metaethics. An upshot is to lessen the contrast between expressivism and nonnaturalism: in their strongest forms, the two converge in all their theses. Still, they differ in the explanations they give. Nonnaturalists' explanations mystify, whereas expressivists render normative thinking intelligible as something to expect from beings like us, complexly social products of natural selection who talk with each other.

The Oxford Dictionary of World Religions

Author : John Bowker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780198662426
Total Pages : 1111 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of World Religions written by John Bowker and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 1111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Dictionary of World Religion is the most wide-ranging A-Z reference guide to all aspects of the world's religions past and present. Whether the reader seeks quick, accessible answers from the short entries or more detailed discussion from the longer more discursive articles, it offers a wealth of unrivalled and unbiased authoritative detail. With a total of over 8,200 entries, an extensive topic index, and an original and in-depth introductory essay this new dictionary, drawing on the latest research, is the definitive compendium on the subject. Religions; movements, sects, and cults; texts books; individuals; sacred sites; customs; themes on general topics relevant to all religions such as prayer, biogenetics, asceticism, confession, cosmology, art and architecture, music and dance; accessible reference hundreds of quotations many translated specially for this book; and a topic index listing 13,000 entries on major themes such as Brahman, breathing, death beliefs and rituals, heavens and paradises, kami, mandala, mantra, mysticism, Sufism, yoga, and Zen practice.

Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1034 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Improvement Era

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Improvement Era written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Study of Religion and its Meaning

Author : J.E. Barnhart
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 311081000X
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Study of Religion and its Meaning written by J.E. Barnhart and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-11-21 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sinceits founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline.

Brümmer on Meaning and the Christian Faith

Author : Vincent Brümmer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351162306
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Brümmer on Meaning and the Christian Faith written by Vincent Brümmer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a wide-ranging selection from the writings of a leading contemporary philosophical theologian, Vincent Brümmer. In his many books and articles Brümmer has demonstrated how the tools of philosophical analysis are not only fruitful but also essential for dealing with the central issues of systematic theology. The title of this volume, Meaning and the Christian Faith, highlights two characteristic themes that recur throughout the many writings of Vincent Brümmer. Much of his work has been devoted to exploring the meaning of the Christian faith, and especially of its central claim that God is a personal being whose fellowship believers may enjoy. On the other hand, Brümmer has also shown that religious belief should not be understood as an explanatory theory but rather as a way in which believers understand the meaning of their lives and their experience of the world and direct their lives accordingly. Thus in the Christian tradition believers claim that their lives are meaningful because they seek to attain ultimate happiness in the love of God. In the introductory sections throughout this volume Vincent Brümmer describes how he came to pay attention to the various themes dealt with in his writings and explains why he came to deal with them in the ways he did.