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Dividing reality /
Why does our language divide up reality one way rather than another? On what rational basis does our language contain certain kinds of general words rather than others? Hirsch shows that a language can be constructed which describes reality in ways we would find absurdly irrational, for example by c...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1993.
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| Colección: | OUP E-Books.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. The Division Problem; 2. Projectibility and Strange Languages; 3. Reality's Joints I: Properties; 4. Reality's Joints II: Things; 5. The Pragmatic Response; 6. The Order of Understanding; 7. Ontology and the Division Problem; Appendix 1. Projectible Terms; Appendix 2. Similarity and Natural Properties; Appendix 3. The Fine-Grained Doctrine; References; Index