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Models and metaphors : studies in language and philosophy /

Author Max Black argues that language should conform to the discovered regularities of experience it is radically mistaken to assume that the conception of language is a mirror of reality.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Black, Max, 1909-1988 (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 1962.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Language and reality
  • Explanations of meaning
  • Metaphor
  • Presupposition and implication
  • Necessary statements and rules
  • The analysis of rules
  • Possibility
  • Making something happen
  • Can the effect precede the cause?
  • The "direction" of time
  • Can induction be vindicated?
  • Self-supporting inductive arguments
  • Models and archetypes
  • Linguistic relativity : the views of Benjamin Lee Whorf.