Branching Futures
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Branching Futures
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Author : Barrett Williams
language : en
Publisher: Barrett Williams
Release Date : 2025-01-04
Branching Futures written by Barrett Williams and has been published by Barrett Williams this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-01-04 with Gardening categories.
Unlock the ancient art of miniaturization with "Branching Futures," an inspiring exploration of the world of bonsai design with a special focus on the captivating realm of Mame Bonsai. Whether you’re a seasoned bonsai artist or a budding enthusiast, this eBook takes you on a journey through the meticulous craft of creating breathtaking miniature trees. Delve into the evolution of bonsai aesthetics and discover how Eastern philosophies shape the serene beauty of these living sculptures. "Branching Futures" intricately details the iconic styles and forms that are a hallmark of bonsai artistry, providing a deep dive into the graceful broom style, elegant literati aesthetics, and the dramatic cascade forms. Master the art of miniature mastery with step-by-step guidance on cultivating Mame Bonsai, from selecting the perfect plant species to shaping tiny giants through precise pruning and wiring techniques. Learn how to achieve harmony through pot selection, balancing proportions, materials, and textures to create stunning displays. This comprehensive guide unveils the science behind soil composition and watering practices essential for maintaining vitality within limited spaces. Understand how to adapt lighting and environmental conditions for year-round care, ensuring your miniatures thrive both indoors and outdoors. Embark on a historical journey with the annals of Mame, exploring its roots, cultural influences, and modern innovations. Conquer challenges unique to miniatures, from growth limitations to pest management, and explore advanced propagation methods for creating unique variations. "Branching Futures" also shares personal stories from passionate enthusiasts who have transformed their lives through bonsai, illustrating the deep connection and tranquility this art brings. Engage with the bonsai community, discover workshops, clubs, and exhibitions, and access valuable resources for continuing education. Begin your artistic journey today with "Branching Futures" and transform not just trees but your perspective on nature and creativity. Your future in bonsai starts here.
The Many Futures Of A Decision
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Author : Jay Lampert
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-06-28
The Many Futures Of A Decision written by Jay Lampert and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-28 with Philosophy categories.
Combining two a central topics in philosophy in the 20th Century, this book considers the ethics and impact of decision-making alongside the philosophy of time. When we make simple decisions, like the decision to wake up at 8 a.m. tomorrow, we make use of a linear model of the future. But when we make open-ended decisions, like the decision to get fitter, or more involved in politics, we presuppose a much more complex model of the future. We project a variety of virtual futures. We can carry out a decision in many different ways at once, which may converge and diverge at different points in time. Using a phenomenological approach, The Many Futures of a Decision explores what we learn about the structure of the future specifically from decision-making. Most theories of decision concentrate on the rationality: the evidence and value assessments that build up grounds for a rational decision. Instead, this book innovatively engages with the nature of the future as a multi-layered decisions project. Through interpretations of the theories of decision in philosophers like Husserl and Heidegger, Schmitt and Habermas, Derrida and Deleuze, along with other decision theories, Lampert develops an original theory of multiple futures.
A Future For Presentism
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Author : Craig Bourne
language : en
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Release Date : 2006-12-07
A Future For Presentism written by Craig Bourne and has been published by Clarendon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-12-07 with Philosophy categories.
Presentism, the view that only the present exists, was a much neglected position in the philosophy of time for a number of years. Recently, however, it has been enjoying a renaissance among philosophers. A Future for Presentism is meant as a timely contribution to this fast growing and exciting debate. After discussing rival positions in the philosophy of time, in Part I Craig Bourne shows how presentism is the only viable alternative to the tenseless theory of time. He then develops a distinctive version of presentism that avoids the mistakes of the past, and which sets up the framework for solving problems traditionally associated with the position, such as what makes past-tensed statements true, how to give the proper semantics for statements about the future, how to deal with transtemporal relations, how we can meaningfully talk about past individuals, and how causation can be accommodated. Part I concludes with a discussion of the direction of time and causation, the decision-theoretic problem known as 'Newcomb's problem', and the possibility of time travel and causal loops. In Part II Bourne focuses on the problems for presentism raised by relativity theory. He begins with by giving a self-contained exposition of the concepts of special relativity that are important for understanding the later discussion of its philosophical implications. The last two chapters explore the philosophical implications of certain cosmological models that arise from general relativity, namely the expanding models, which seem to represent our universe, and Gödel's infamous model, which allows us to take a journey into our future and arrive in our past. The necessary physics is explained with the aid of diagrams, throughout.
The Diachronic Development Of Modal Expressions In Chinese
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Author : Barbara Meisterernst
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2024-11-18
The Diachronic Development Of Modal Expressions In Chinese written by Barbara Meisterernst and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-11-18 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The present study is the first to apply a syntactic approach to the grammaticalization of Chinese modals, based on hypotheses on cross-linguistic diachronic developments of modals from lexical to functional categories as upward movement on a functional spine. The temporal framework of the study covers Late Archaic and Middle Chinese. Early Middle Chinese is a crucial turning point for the development of Chinese from a more synthetic to a more analytic language. This change is attributed e.g. to the loss of a former morphology, which also affects the modal system. Against this background, the negative cycle of Chinese, the relevance of polarity contexts, and the development of a new system of deontic, epistemic and future markers are analyzed. In addition to a comprehensive analysis of the syntactic processes involved in the diachronic changes of the Chinese modal system, the study also provides a comparison with the syntax of grammaticalization of the thoroughly discussed Germanic modals. This constitutes a broad basis for further analyses of the changes in the Chinese language during its long written history, but also for cross-linguistic studies on the syntax of grammaticalization and on linguistic universals.
The World Time Parallel
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Author : A. A. Rini
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-01-19
The World Time Parallel written by A. A. Rini and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-19 with Philosophy categories.
The only book to investigate the parallel between what happens at other times and what happens in other possible worlds.
Tense And Aspect
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Author : Phillip Tedeschi
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-01-13
Tense And Aspect written by Phillip Tedeschi and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-13 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Preliminary Material /Philip J. Tedeschi and Annie Zaenen --The Ancient Greek Aorist as the Aspect of Countable Action /David Armstrong --Of Tense and Aspect: One Analysis /Michael Bennett --Aspect and Quantification /Lauri Carlson --Aspect and Voice: Some Reflections on Perfect and Passive /Bernard Comrie --On the Definition of the Telic-Atelic (Bounded-Nonbounded) Distinction /Östen Dahl --Aspectual “Skewing” in Two Australian Languages: Mara, Nunggubuyu /Jeffrey Heath --Remarks on Noch and Schon in German /J. Hoepelman and C. Rohrer --Aspect Theory and Georgian Aspect /Dee Ann Holisky --A Unified Temporal Theory of Tense and Aspect /Marion R. Johnson --Aspect, Markedness, and t0 /Henry Kučera --Events, Processes, and States /Alexander P. D. Mourelatos --Semantic and Syntactic Constraints on Temporal Interpretation /Carlota S. Smith --Some Evidence for a Branching-Futures Semantic Model /Philip J. Tedeschi --The Semantics of the Progressive /Frank Vlach --Subject Index /Philip J. Tedeschi and Annie Zaenen --Contents of Previous Volumes /Philip J. Tedeschi and Annie Zaenen.
Fragmenting Reality
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Author : Samuele Iaquinto
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-10-06
Fragmenting Reality written by Samuele Iaquinto and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-06 with Philosophy categories.
The growing interest in fragmentalism is one of the most exciting trends in philosophy of time and is gradually reshaping the contemporary debate. Providing an extensive interpretation of this view, Samuele Iaquinto and Giuliano Torrengo articulate a novel theory of the passage of time and argue that it is the most effective in vindicating the inherent dynamism of reality. Iaquinto and Torrengo offer the first full-range application of fragmentalism to a number of metaphysical topics, including the open future, causation, the A-theoretic interpretation of special relativity and time travel. The resulting picture, they argue, conveys the potential of a radically new understanding of time.
Adverbial Modification
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Author : M.J. Cresswell
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Adverbial Modification written by M.J. Cresswell and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
Adverbial modification is probably one of the least understood areas of linguistics. The essays in this volume all address the problem of how to give an analysis of adverbial modifiers within truth-conditional semantics. Chapters I-VI provide analyses of particular modifiers within a possible worlds framework, and were written between 1974 and 1981. Original publication details of these chapters may be found on p. vi. Of these, all but Chapter I make essential use of the idea that the time reference involved in tensed sentences should be a time interval rather than a single instant. The final chapter (Chapter VII) was written especially for this volume and investigates the question of how the 'situation semantics' recently devised by Jon Barwise and John Perry, as a rival to possible-worlds semantics, might deal with adverbs. In addition I have included an appendix to Chapter III and an introduction which links all the chapters together.
God And The Nature Of Time
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Author : Garrett J. DeWeese
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-03-02
God And The Nature Of Time written by Garrett J. DeWeese and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-02 with Religion categories.
Is God temporal, 'in time', or atemporal, 'outside of time'? Garrett DeWeese begins with contemporary metaphysics and physics, developing a causal account of dynamic time. Drawing on biblical material as well as discussions of divine temporality in medieval and contemporary philosophical theology, DeWeese concludes that God is temporal but not in physical time as we measure it. Interacting with issues in the history of philosophy, contemporary philosophy of science, and philosophy of religion, this book offers students a thorough introduction to the key issues and key figures in historical and contemporary work on the philosophy of time and time in theology.
Word Meaning And Montague Grammar
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Author : D. R. Dowty
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Word Meaning And Montague Grammar written by D. R. Dowty and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
The most general goal of this book is to propose and illustrate a program of research in word semantics that combines some of the methodology and results in linguistic semantics, primarily that of the generative semantics school, with the rigorously formalized syntactic and semantic framework for the analysis of natural languages developed by Richard Montague and his associates, a framework in which truth and denotation with respect to a model are taken as the fundamental semantic notions. I hope to show, both from the linguist's and the philosopher's point of view, not only why this synthesis can be undertaken but also why it will be useful to pursue it. On the one hand, the linguists' decompositions of word meanings into more primitive parts are by themselves inherently incomplete, in that they deal only in distinctions in meaning without providing an account of what mean ings really are. Not only can these analyses be made complete by a model theoretic semantics, but also such an account of these analyses renders them more exact and more readily testable than they could ever be otherwise.