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  • Curves and Surfaces

    by M. Abate, F. Tovena ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    The book provides an introduction to Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces. The theory of curves starts with a discussion of possible definitions of the concept of curve, proving in particular the classification of 1-dimensional manifolds. We then present the classical local theory of parametrized plane and space curves (curves in n-dimensional space are discussed in the complementary ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Fine Structure of Polarity Sensitivity

    by Lucia M. Tovena ...
    Series series Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics
    First Published in 1998. Part of the Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics series, this study investigates the phenomenon of polarity sensitivity. It proposes a new perspective which focuses on the behaviour and properties of sensitive items and the phrases they form. It originated in the observation that the fine structure of the phenomenon requires a more articulated analysis than the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • Pragmatics

    by Stephen C. Levinson ...
    Series series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
    Those aspects of language use that are crucial to an understanding of language as a system, and especially to an understanding of meaning, are the acknowledged concern of linguistic pragmatics. This textbook provides a lucid and integrative analysis of the central topics in pragmatics - deixis, implicature, presupposition, speech acts, and conversational structure. A central concern of the book is ... Read more

    $78.99 USD

  • Godel's Proof

    by Ernest Nagel, James R. Newman ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    'Nagel and Newman accomplish the wondrous task of clarifying the argumentative outline of Kurt Godel's celebrated logic bomb.' – The GuardianIn 1931 the mathematical logician Kurt Godel published a revolutionary paper that challenged certain basic assumptions underpinning mathematics and logic. A colleague of physicist Albert Einstein, his theorem proved that mathematics was partly based on ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Meaning and Necessity - A Study in Semantics and Modal Logic

    by Rudolf Carnap ...
    The main purpose of this book is the development of a new method for the semantical analysis of meaning, that is, a new method for analyzing and describing the meanings of linguistic expressions. This method, called the method of extension and intension, is developed by modifying and extending certain customary concepts, especially those of class and property. The method will be contrasted with ... Read more

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  • Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations

    A Critical Guide

    Edited by Arif Ahmed ...
    Series series Cambridge Critical Guides
    Published in 1953, Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations had a deeply unsettling effect upon our most basic philosophical ideas concerning thought, sensation and language. Its claim that philosophical questions of meaning necessitate a close analysis of the way we use language continues to influence Anglo-American philosophy today. However, its compressed and dialogic prose is not always ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Meaning and Argument

    An Introduction to Logic Through Language

    by Ernest Lepore, Sam Cumming ...
    Meaning and Argument is a popular introduction to philosophy of logic and philosophy of language.Offers a distinctive philosophical, rather than mathematical, approach to logicConcentrates on symbolization and works out all the technical logic with truth tables instead of derivationsIncorporates the insights of half a century's work in philosophy and linguistics on anaphora by Peter Geach, Gareth ... Read more

    $51.00 USD

  • Vagueness

    by Timothy Williamson ...
    Series series Problems of Philosophy
    If you keep removing single grains of sand from a heap, when is it no longer a heap? From discussions of the heap paradox in classical Greece, to modern formal approaches like fuzzy logic, Timothy Williamson traces the history of the problem of vagueness. He argues that standard logic and formal semantics apply even to vague languages and defends the controversial, realist view that vagueness is a ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax

    Edited by Marcel den Dikken ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    Syntax – the study of sentence structure – has been at the centre of generative linguistics from its inception and has developed rapidly and in various directions. The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax provides a historical context for what is happening in the field of generative syntax today, a survey of the various generative approaches to syntactic structure available in the literature ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Phonology

    A Cognitive View

    by Jonathan Kaye ...
    Series series Tutorial Essays in Cognitive Science Series
    Designed to acquaint the reader with the field of phonology -- the study of the systems of linguistically significant sounds -- this book begins with a brief introduction to linguistics and a discussion of phonology's place within that field. It then goes on to cover a variety of topics including the nature of phonological units, phonological rules, which types of phenomena interest phonologists, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Paradoxes

    by Roy T. Cook ...
    Series series Key Concepts in Philosophy
    Paradoxes are arguments that lead from apparently true premises, via apparently uncontroversial reasoning, to a false or even contradictory conclusion. Paradoxes threaten our basic understanding of central concepts such as space, time, motion, infinity, truth, knowledge, and belief.In this volume Roy T Cook provides a sophisticated, yet accessible and entertaining, introduction to the study of ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • Re-reading Saussure

    The Dynamics of Signs in Social Life

    by Paul J. Thibault ...
    Through a detailed re-reading of Saussures's work in the light of contemporary developments in the human, life and physical sciences, Paul Thibault provides us with the means to redefine and refocus our theories of social meaning-making. Saussure's theory of language is generally considered to be a formal theory of abstract sign-types and sign-systems, separate from our individual and social ... Read more

    $66.99 USD