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Logic as grammar
"A Bradford book."How is the meaning of natural language interpreted? Taking as its point of departure the logical problem of natural language acquisition, this book elaborates a theory of meaning based on syntactical rather than semantical processes. Hornstein argues that the traditional neoFregean approach taken by Davidson, Barwise and Perry, and Montague, among others--an approach that make…
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- 0262081377
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- 1 online resource (x, 176 pages)
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Logic and information flow
"The thirteen chapters written expressly for this book by logicians, theoretical computer scientists, philosophers, and semanticists address, from the perspective of mathematical logic, the problems of understanding and studying the flow of information through any information-processing system. The logic of information flow has applications in both computer science and natural language processi…
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- 0585358451
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- 1 online resource (233 pages) :illustrations.
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The linguistic turn in hermeneutic philosophy
Annotation The linguistic turn in German philosophy was initiated in the eighteenth century in the work of Johann Georg Hamann, Johann Gottfried von Herder, and Wilhelm von Humboldt. It was further developed in this century by Martin Heidegger, and Hans-Georg Gadamer extended its influence to contemporary philosophers such as Karl-Otto Apel and J?Habermas. This tradition focuses on the world-di…
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- 0585190097
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 377 pages).
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Methods for assessing children's syntax
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- 9780262279413
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 390 pages).
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The metaphysics of meaning
"A Bradford book."In "The Metaphysics of Meaning, Jerrold J. Katz offers a radical reappraisal of the "linguistic turn" in twentieth century philosophy. He shows that the naturalism which emerged to become the dominant philosophical position was never adequately proven. Katz critiques the major arguments for contemporary naturalism and develops a new conception of the naturalistic fallacy. This…
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- 9780262276795
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- 1 online resource (xi, 356 pages).
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A Prosodic Model of Sign Language Phonology.
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- 9780262269261
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- 1 online resource (396 pages).
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A Programmer's Guide to ZPL.
This guide illustrates typical ZPL usage and explains in an intuitive manner how the constructs work. The emphasis is on teaching the reader to be a ZPL programmer. Scientific computations are used as examples throughout.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262287739
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- 1 online resource (172 pages).
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LISP 1.5 programmer's manual :the Computation Center and Research Laboratory …
Includes index.The manual describes LISP, a formal mathematical language. LISP differs from most programming languages in three important ways. The first way is in the nature of the data.The LISP language is designed primarily for symbolic data processing used for symbolic calculations in differential and integral calculus, electrical circuit theory, mathematical logic, game playing, and other …
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- 9780262287722
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- 1 online resource (vi, 106 pages)
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The prism of grammar :how child language illuminates humanism
"A Bradford book."Exploring the creativity of mind through children's language: how the tiniest utterances can illustrate the simple but abstract principles behind modern grammar--and reveal the innate structures of the mind.Every sentence we hear is instantly analyzed by an inner grammar; just as a prism refracts a beam of light, grammar divides a stream of sound, linking diverse strings of in…
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- 9780262257794
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 355 pages) :illustrations
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Semantics, tense, and time :an essay in the metaphysics of natural language
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- 0585101175
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