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A History of American Puritan Literature
For generations, scholars have imagined American puritans as religious enthusiasts, fleeing persecution, finding refuge in Massachusetts, and founding 'America'. The puritans have been read as a product of New England and the origin of American exceptionalism. This History challenges the usual understanding of American puritans, offering new ways of reading their history and their literary cult…
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A History of American Puritan Literature
For generations, scholars have imagined American puritans as religious enthusiasts, fleeing persecution, finding refuge in Massachusetts, and founding 'America'. The puritans have been read as a product of New England and the origin of American exceptionalism. This History challenges the usual understanding of American puritans, offering new ways of reading their history and their literary cult…
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Belief's own ethics
"A Bradford book."The fundamental question of the ethics of belief is "What ought one to believe?" According to the traditional view of evidentialism, the strength of one's beliefs should be proportionate to the evidence. Conventional ways of defending and challenging evidentialism rely on the idea that what one ought to believe is a matter of what it is rational, prudent, ethical, or personall…
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- 1 online resource (xv, 357 pages)
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Artificial experts :social knowledge and intelligent machines
In Artificial Experts, Collins explains what computers can't do, but he also studies the ordinary and extraordinary things that they can do. He argues that the machines we create are limited because we cannot reproduce in symbols what every community knows, yet we give our machines abilities by the way we embed them in our society. He unfolds a compelling account of the difference between human…
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- 0262255936
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 266 pages) :illustrations.
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As time goes by :tense and universal grammar
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262275712
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- 1 online resource (xii, 242 pages) :illustrations
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Associative engines :connectionism, concepts, and representational change
"A Bradford book."Connectionist approaches, Andy Clark argues, are driving cognitive science toward a radical reconception of its explanatory endeavor. At the heart of this reconception lies a shift toward a new and more deeply developmental vision of the mind - a vision that has important implications for the philosophical and psychological understanding of the nature of concepts, of mental ca…
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 252 pages) :illustrations
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Asymmetry in morphology
Di Sciullo argues that the asymmetric property of morphological relations is part of the language facility. She proposes a theory of grammar, Asymmetry Theory, according to which generic operations have specific instantiations in parallel deviations of the computational space.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262302845
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- 1 online resource (xix, 234 pages) :illustrations.
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Convergent evolution :limited forms most beautiful
An analysis of convergent evolution from molecules to ecosystems, demonstrating the limited number of evolutionary pathways available to life. Charles Darwin famously concluded On the Origin of Species with a vision of “endless forms most beautiful” continually evolving. More than 150 years later many evolutionary biologists see not endless forms but the same, or very similar, forms evol…
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Universals in comparative morphology :suppletion, superlatives, and the struc…
An argument for, and account of linguistic universals in the morphology of comparison, combining empirical breadth and theoretical rigor. This groundbreaking study of the morphology of comparison yields a surprising result: that even in suppletion (the wholesale replacement of one stem by a phonologically unrelated stem, as in good-better-best) there emerge strikingly robust patterns, virtually…
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- 9780262305525
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 313 pages) :illustrations.
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The connectives
A comprehensive investigation of the sentence connectives--and, or, if, not--with special attention to their logical properties.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 1492 pages)
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