Ambiguities in intensional contexts - Heny
KORTE INHOUD
9027711674.
The essays in this book deal with a number of problems in the analysis of intensional language - more especially with the analysis of the personal modalities in natural language. Together they cover a representative spectrum of the problems of contemporary ,interest in this area, in a way that should make them of interest to linguists, logicians and philosophers concerned with natural language. The contributors are mostly more linguists than logicians or philosophers but some are more logicians or philosophers than linguists. As far as possible, we have tried to conduct the discussion in terms that will enable students from any of these fields to come to grips with the central issues. This volume will provide, I think, material for a very stimulating course. I have used it as the basis for a course at the introductory level in the philosophy of language. The essays in the book led us back to look at the classic texts and a good deal of the intervening literature crept in of its own accord. Out of ...
The essays in this book deal with a number of problems in the analysis of intensional language - more especially with the analysis of the personal modalities in natural language. Together they cover a representative spectrum of the problems of contemporary ,interest in this area, in a way that should make them of interest to linguists, logicians and philosophers concerned with natural language. The contributors are mostly more linguists than logicians or philosophers but some are more logicians or philosophers than linguists. As far as possible, we have tried to conduct the discussion in terms that will enable students from any of these fields to come to grips with the central issues. This volume will provide, I think, material for a very stimulating course. I have used it as the basis for a course at the introductory level in the philosophy of language. The essays in the book led us back to look at the classic texts and a good deal of the intervening literature crept in of its own accord. Out of ...
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2007Uitgever: Kluwer Academic342 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 9027711674ISBN-13: 9789027711670Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Original cloth, dustjacket. lviii,286 pp.; 22.5x15.5 cm. " Synthese language library. Volume 12 " Text in English. - (dust-jacket slightly damaged, previous owner's name) Although very good, see picture 680 [Auteur: Heny, Frank (ed.).] [Uitgever: D. Reidel.] [Jaar: 1981] [Titel: Ambiguities in Intensional Contexts.]
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1981, cloth hardcover, with dust jacket, dust jacket, taped, name on first page, good copy [Auteur: Heny, Frank] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Kluwer Academic. Synthese Language Library] [Jaar: 1981] [Titel: Ambiguities in intensional contexts]
