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Perplexities : Rational Choice, the Prisoner's Dilemma, Metaphor, Poetic Ambiguity, and Other Puzzles /

Shortly before his death in 1988, Max Black brought together for this collection previously published major essays on ten intriguing questions concerning ordinary language, rational choice, and literature.Individual chapters explore such fundamental problems as the puzzles posed by meaning and verif...

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Autor principal: Black, Max (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Publisher's Note --   |t Introduction: The Articulation of Concepts --   |t MEANING AND VERIFICATION --   |t 1. Some Puzzles about Meaning --   |t 2. Verificationism Revisited: A Conversation --   |t METAPHOR --   |t 3. More about Metaphor --   |t 4. How Metaphors Work: A Reply to Donald Davidson --   |t RATIONALITY --   |t 5. Ambiguities of Rationality --   |t 6. The "Prisoner's Dilemma" and the Limits of Rationality --   |t CHOICE THEORY --   |t 7. Making Intelligent Choices: How Useful Is Decision Theory? --   |t 8. Some Questions about Bayesian Decision Theory --   |t APPLICATIONS --   |t 9. On Demystifying Space --   |t 10. The Radical Ambiguity of a Poem --   |t Index 
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