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Words without Objects

Author : Henry Laycock
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191535915
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Words without Objects written by Henry Laycock and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-04-06 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A picture of the world as chiefly one of discrete objects, distributed in space and time, has sometimes seemed compelling. It is however one of two main targets of Henry Laycock's book; for it is seriously incomplete. The picture, he argues, leaves no space for stuff like air and water. With discrete objects, we may always ask 'how many?', but with stuff the question has to be 'how much?' Within philosophy, stuff of certain basic kinds is central to the ancient pre-Socratic world-view; but it also constitutes the field of modern chemistry and is a major factor in ecology. Philosophers these days, in general, are unlikely to deny that stuff exists. But they are very likely to deny that it is ('ultimately') to be contrasted with things, and it is on this account that logic and semantics figure largely in the framework of the book. Elementary logic is a logic which takes values for its variables; and these values are precisely distinct individuals or things. Existence is then symbolized in just such terms; and this, it is proposed, creates a pressure for 'reducing' stuff to things. Non-singular expressions, which include words for stuff, 'mass' nouns, and also plural nouns, are 'explicated' as semantically singular. Here then is the second target of the book. The posit that both mass and plural nouns name special categories of objects (set-theoretical 'collections' of objects in the one case, mereological 'parcels' or 'portions' of stuff in the other) represents, so Laycock urges, the imposition of an alien logic upon both the many and the much.

Words Without Objects

Author : Henry Laycock
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199281718
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Words Without Objects written by Henry Laycock and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2006-04-06 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A picture of the world as chiefly one of discrete objects, distributed in space and time, has sometimes seemed compelling. It is however one of two main targets of Henry Laycock's book; for it is seriously incomplete. The picture, he argues, leaves no space for stuff like air and water. With discrete objects, we may always ask 'how many?', but with stuff the question has to be 'how much?' Within philosophy, stuff of certain basic kinds is central to the ancient pre-Socraticworld-view; but it also constitutes the field of modern chemistry and is a major factor in ecology.Philosophers these days, in general, are unlikely to deny that stuff exists. But they are very likely to deny that it is ('ultimately') to be contrasted with things, and it is on this account that logic and semantics figure largely in the framework of the book. Elementary logic is a logic which takes values for its variables; and these values are precisely distinct individuals or things. Existence is then symbolized in just such terms; and this, it is proposed, creates a pressure for 'reducing'stuff to things. Non-singular expressions, which include words for stuff, 'mass' nouns, and also plural nouns, are 'explicated' as semantically singular.Here then is the second target of the book. The posit that both mass and plural nouns name special categories of objects (set-theoretical 'collections' of objects in the one case, mereological 'parcels' or 'portions' of stuff in the other) represents, so Laycock urges, the imposition of an alien logic upon both the many and the much.

The Midworld of Symbols and Functioning Objects

Author : John William Miller
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393015799
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book The Midworld of Symbols and Functioning Objects written by John William Miller and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1982 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miller uses argument, aphorism, and plays on words to make points. . . . [A] fascinating . . . book. --Library Journal

Objects of Metaphor

Author : Samuel Guttenplan
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 019153580X
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Objects of Metaphor written by Samuel Guttenplan and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2005-05-19 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Objects of Metaphor contains a philosophical account of the phenomenon of metaphor radically different from those currently on offer. Yet for all that it is different, the underlying rationale of the account is genuinely ecumenical. If one adopts its perspective, one should be able to see how substantially correct many other accounts are, whilst at the same time seeing why they are not in the end completely correct. The book opens with a transparent classification of types of account, and concludes with detailed discussions of three important recent contributions to the subject. The origins of the account lie in our conception of predication. Unreflectively thought of as a task accomplished by words, it is argued that predication, or something very much like it, can also be accomplished by objects. So understood, predication becomes the genuinely equal partner of reference - a function no one doubts can be as easily accomplished by objects as by words - and, liberated in this way, predication becomes one central element in the account of metaphor. The other element is the move from language to objects which, adapting an idea of Quine's, is thought of as semantic descent. Whilst Samuel Guttenplan's account allows us to see other accounts in a new light, its main importance lies in what it tells us about metaphor itself. Powerful and flexible enough to cope with the syntactic complexity typical of genuine metaphor, it offers novel conceptions of both the relationship between simile and metaphor and the notion of dead metaphor. Additionally, it allows us to see why metaphor is a robust theoretic kind, related to certain other tropes, but not to be confused with tropes generally, or with the figurative and non-literal. Metaphor has often been thought merely an ornament to language. Whilst acknowledging the truth in this thought, Guttenplan shows the fundamental importance of metaphor to language. Rather than being a specialist topic in philosophy and related disciplines, he thus suggests that the study of metaphor is central to the study of language.

Making Objects and Events

Author : Simon J. Evnine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191085251
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Making Objects and Events written by Simon J. Evnine and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simon J. Evnine explores the view (which he calls amorphic hylomorphism) that some objects have matter from which they are distinct but that this distinctness is not due to the existence of anything like a form. He draws on Aristotle's insight that such objects must be understood in terms of an account that links what they are essentially with how they come to exist and what their functions are (the coincidence of formal, final, and efficient causes). Artifacts are the most prominent kind of objects where these three features coincide, and Evnine develops a detailed account of the existence and identity conditions of artifacts, and the origins of their functions, in terms of how they come into existence. This process is, in general terms, that they are made out of their initial matter by an agent acting with the intention to make an object of the given kind. Evnine extends the account to organisms, where evolution accomplishes what is effected by intentional making in the case of artifacts, and to actions, which are seen as artifactual events.

Fewer, Better Things

Author : Glenn Adamson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1632869640
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (328 download)

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Download or read book Fewer, Better Things written by Glenn Adamson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the former director of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, a timely and passionate case for the role of the well-designed object in the digital age. Curator and scholar Glenn Adamson opens Fewer, Better Things by contrasting his beloved childhood teddy bear to the smartphones and digital tablets children have today. He laments that many children and adults are losing touch with the material objects that have nurtured human development for thousands of years. The objects are still here, but we seem to care less and know less about them. In his presentations to groups, he often asks an audience member what he or she knows about the chair the person is sitting in. Few people know much more than whether it's made of wood, plastic, or metal. If we know little about how things are made, it's hard to remain connected to the world around us. Fewer, Better Things explores the history of craft in its many forms, explaining how raw materials, tools, design, and technique come together to produce beauty and utility in handmade or manufactured items. Whether describing the implements used in a traditional Japanese tea ceremony, the use of woodworking tools, or the use of new fabrication technologies, Adamson writes expertly and lovingly about the aesthetics of objects, and the care and attention that goes into producing them. Reading this wise and elegant book is a truly transformative experience.

Discovering Modernism

Author : Louis Menand
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199774714
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Discovering Modernism written by Louis Menand and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Discovering Modernism was first published, it shed new and welcome light on the birth of Modernism. This reissue of Menand's classic intellectual history of T.S. Eliot and the singular role he played in the rise of literary modernism features an updated Afterword by the author, as well as a detailed critical appraisal of the progression of Eliot's career as a poet and critic. The new Afterword was adapted from Menand's critically lauded essay on Eliot in The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Volume Seven: Modernism and the New Criticism. Menand shows how Eliot's early views on literary value and authenticity, and his later repudiation of those views, reflect the profound changes regarding the understanding of literature and its significance that occurred in the early part of the twentieth century. It will prove an eye-opening study for readers with an interest in the writings of T.S. Eliot and other luminaries of the Modernist era.

Space, Objects, Minds and Brains

Author : Lynn C. Robertson
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1135433259
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book Space, Objects, Minds and Brains written by Lynn C. Robertson and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004-06-02 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lynn Robertson has been studying how brain lesions affect spatial abilities for over 20 years, and her work has revealed some surprising facts about space and its role in visual perception. In this book she combines evidence collected in her laboratory with findings from others to explore the cognitive and neural basis of spatial representations and their contributions to spatial awareness, object formation, attention, and binding.

International Law's Objects

Author : Jessie Hohmann
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198798202
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book International Law's Objects written by Jessie Hohmann and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019-01-20 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International law's rich existence in the world can be illuminated by its objects. International law is often developed, conveyed, and authorized through its objects and/or their representation. From the symbolic (the regalia of the head of state and the symbols of sovereignty), to the mundane (a can of dolphin-safe tuna certified as complying with international trade standards), international legal authority can be found in the objects around us. Similarly, the practice of international law often relies on material objects or their image, both as evidence (satellite images, bones of the victims of mass atrocities) and to found authority (for instance, maps and charts). This volume considers these questions: firstly what might the study of international law through objects reveal? What might objects, rather than texts, tell us about sources, recognition of states, construction of territory, law of the sea, or international human rights law? Secondly, what might this scholarly undertaking reveal about the objects-as aims or projects-of international law? How do objects reveal, or perhaps mask, these aims, and what does this tell us about the reasons some (physical or material) objects are foregrounded, and others hidden or ignored. Thirdly what objects, icons, and symbols preoccupy the profession and academy? The personal selection of these objects by leading and emerging scholars worldwide will illuminate the contemporary and historical fascinations of international lawyers. By considering international law in the context of its material culture the authors offer a new and exciting theoretical perspective on the subject. With an image of each object reproduced in full colour, the book will make an engaging and interesting read for scholars, practitioners, and students alike.

Bulletin of the Philosophical Society of Washington

Author : Philosophical Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Bulletin of the Philosophical Society of Washington written by Philosophical Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.) and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 818 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Appendix to the House and Senate Journals of the ... General Assembly of the State of Missouri

Author : Missouri. General Assembly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1946 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Appendix to the House and Senate Journals of the ... General Assembly of the State of Missouri written by Missouri. General Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 1946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Report of the Superintendent of Public Schools

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1050 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Report of the Superintendent of Public Schools written by and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 1050 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Report of the Public Schools of the State of Missouri

Author : Missouri. Dept. of Education
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Report of the Public Schools of the State of Missouri written by Missouri. Dept. of Education and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Imagined Causes: Hume's Conception of Objects

Author : Stefanie Rocknak
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400721862
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Imagined Causes: Hume's Conception of Objects written by Stefanie Rocknak and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-09-14 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the first comprehensive account of Hume’s conception of objects in Book I of A Treatise of Human Nature. What, according to Hume, are objects? Ideas? Impressions? Mind-independent objects? All three? None of the above? Through a close textual analysis, Rocknak shows that Hume thought that objects are imagined ideas. But, she argues, he struggled with two accounts of how and when we imagine such ideas. On the one hand, Hume believed that we always and universally imagine that objects are the causes of our perceptions. On the other hand, he thought that we only imagine such causes when we reach a “philosophical” level of thought. This tension manifests itself in Hume’s account of personal identity; a tension that, Rocknak argues, Hume acknowledges in the Appendix to the Treatise. As a result of Rocknak’s detailed account of Hume’s conception of objects, we are forced to accommodate new interpretations of, at least, Hume’s notions of belief, personal identity, justification and causality.

The Public-school Journal

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Public-school Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Werner's Voice Magazine

Author : Edgar S. Werner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Werner's Voice Magazine written by Edgar S. Werner and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: