Language And Reality
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Language And Reality
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Author : Michael Devitt
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 1999
Language And Reality written by Michael Devitt and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
What is language? How does it relate to the world? How does it relate to the mind? Should our view of language influence our view of the world? These are among the central issues covered in this spirited and unusually clear introduction to the philosophy of language. Making no pretense of neutrality, Michael Devitt and Kim Sterelny take a definite theoretical stance. Central to that stance is naturalism--that is, they treat a philosophical theory of language as an empirical theory like any other and see people as nothing but complex parts of the physical world. This leads them, controversially, to a deflationary view of the significance of the study of language: they dismiss the idea that the philosophy of language should be preeminent in philosophy. This highly successful textbook has been extensively rewritten for the second edition to reflect recent developments in the field.
Language Vs Reality
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Author : N.J. Enfield
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2022-03-29
Language Vs Reality written by N.J. Enfield and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-29 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
A fascinating examination of how we are both played by language and made by language: the science underlying the bugs and features of humankind’s greatest invention. Language is said to be humankind’s greatest accomplishment. But what is language actually good for? It performs poorly at representing reality. It is a constant source of distraction, misdirection, and overshadowing. In fact, N. J. Enfield notes, language is far better at persuasion than it is at objectively capturing the facts of experience. Language cannot create or change physical reality, but it can do the next best thing: reframe and invert our view of the world. In Language vs. Reality, Enfield explains why language is bad for scientists (who are bound by reality) but good for lawyers (who want to win their cases), why it can be dangerous when it falls into the wrong hands, and why it deserves our deepest respect. Enfield offers a lively exploration of the science underlying the bugs and features of language. He examines the tenuous relationship between language and reality; details the array of effects language has on our memory, attention, and reasoning; and describes how these varied effects power narratives and storytelling as well as political spin and conspiracy theories. Why should we care what language is good for? Enfield, who has spent twenty years at the cutting edge of language research, argues that understanding how language works is crucial to tackling our most pressing challenges, including human cognitive bias, media spin, the “post-truth” problem, persuasion, the role of words in our thinking, and much more.
Reference Truth And Reality
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Author : Mark de Bretton Platts
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 1980
Reference Truth And Reality written by Mark de Bretton Platts and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Language and Languages categories.
The Language And Reality Of Time
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Author : Thomas Sattig
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2006-05-11
The Language And Reality Of Time written by Thomas Sattig and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-11 with Philosophy categories.
Thomas Sattig's book develops a comprehensive framework for doing philosophy of time. He brings together a variety of different perspectives, linking our ordinary conception of time with the physicist's conception, and linking questions about time addressed in metaphysics with questions addressed in the philosophy of language. Within this framework, Sattig explores the temporal dimension of the material world in relation to the temporal dimension of our ordinary discourse about theworld.The discussion is centred around the dispute between three-dimensionalists and four-dimensionalists about whether the temporal profile of ordinary objects mirrors their spatial profile. Are ordinary objects extended in time in the same way in which they are extended in space? Do they have temporal as well as spatial parts? Four-dimensionalists say 'yes', three-dimensionalists say 'no'. Sattig develops an original three-dimensionalist picture of the material world, and argues that this pictureis preferable to its four-dimensionalists rivals if ordinary thought and talk are taken seriously. Among the issues that Sattig discusses are the metaphysics of persistence, change, composition, location, coincidence, and relativity; the ontology of past, present, and future; and the semantics ofpredication, tense, temporal modifiers, and sortal terms.
Logic Language And Reality
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Author : Bimal Krishna Matilal
language : en
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Release Date : 1990
Logic Language And Reality written by Bimal Krishna Matilal and has been published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Philosophy categories.
About the Book :In this book, the author has choosen deliberatly a very dominant trend of the classical philosophical literature as his subject of study. The age of the material used here demands both philological scholaship and philosophical amplificati
Language And Reality
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Author : Wilbur Marshall Urban
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-06-03
Language And Reality written by Wilbur Marshall Urban and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-03 with Philosophy categories.
First published in 2002. This is Volume XV of seventeen in the Library of Philosophy series on Metaphysics. Written in 1939, this book looks at Language and Reality and the Philosophy of Language and the Principles of Symbolism and is related to the movement of Logical Positivism, initiated by Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.
Unified Discourse Analysis
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Author : James Paul Gee
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-06-20
Unified Discourse Analysis written by James Paul Gee and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-20 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Discourse Analysis is becoming increasingly "multimodal", concerned primarily with the interplay of language, image and sound. Video Games allow humans to create, live in and have conversations with new multimodal worlds. In this ground-breaking new textbook, best-selling author and experienced gamer, James Paul Gee, sets out a new theory and method of discourse analysis which applies to language, the real world, science and video games. Rather than analysing the language of video games, this book uses discourse analysis to study games as communicational forms. Gee argues that language, science, games and everyday life are deeply related and each is a series of conversations. Discourse analysis should not be just about language, but about human interactions with the world, with games, and with each other, interactions that make meaning and sustain lives amid risk and complexity. Written in a highly accessible style and drawing on a wide range of video games from World of Warcraft and Chibi-Robo to Tetris, this engaging textbook is essential reading for students in discourse analysis, new media and digital culture.
The Linguistic Construction Of Reality
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Author : George William Grace
language : en
Publisher: George Grace
Release Date : 1987
The Linguistic Construction Of Reality written by George William Grace and has been published by George Grace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Speech And Reality
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Author : Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
language : en
Publisher: Argo Books
Release Date : 1970-06
Speech And Reality written by Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and has been published by Argo Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970-06 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Inventing Reality
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Author : Bruce Gregory
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 1988
Inventing Reality written by Bruce Gregory and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Science categories.
This volume traces the history of the basic concepts in physics and the evolution of its language, showing that science is the imaginative creation of the inquisitive human mind. The author discusses the work of such scientists as Bohr, Einstein and Weinberg.