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Paperback. In clear and lively prose that avoids jargon, the author carefully and systematically examines the many kinds of subtly nuanced words or word-pairs of everyday discourse such as 'and'-'but', 'before'-'ere', 'Chinese'-'Chink', and 'sweat'-'perspiration', that have proven resistant to truth-conditional explanations of meaning. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CBX; CFA; CFG; CFGA; HPCF; HPCF5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 273
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349442591
- ISBN
- 9781349442591
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Condition: New
€ 66.28
€ 66.28
Hardback. This volume analyzes how vagueness occurs and matters as a specific problem in the context of theories that are primarily about something else. Topics include vagueness and metaphysics, vagueness and logic, vagueness and linguistics, and vagueness and law. Editor(s): Ronzitti, Giuseppina. Series: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; HPK; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 164 x 18. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Publisher
- Springer
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 2011th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400703742
- ISBN
- 9789400703742
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Condition: New
€ 231.34
€ 231.34
Hardback. This volume brings together twelve papers by linguists and philosophers contributing novel empirical and formal considerations to theorizing about vagueness. Three main issues are addressed: gradable expressions and comparison, the semantics of degree adverbs and intensifiers (such as 'clearly'), and ways of evading the sorites paradox. Editor(s): Egre, Paul; Klinedinst, Nathan. Series: Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language & Cognition. Num Pages: 331 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; CFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 147 x 23. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 331
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230238619
- ISBN
- 9780230238619
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.11
€ 68.11
paperback. This volume brings together twelve papers by linguists and philosophers contributing novel empirical and formal considerations to theorizing about vagueness. Three main issues are addressed: gradable expressions and comparison, the semantics of degree adverbs and intensifiers (such as 'clearly'), and ways of evading the sorites paradox. Editor(s): Egre, Paul; Klinedinst, Nathan. Series: Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language & Cognition. Num Pages: 331 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CBX; CFA; CFGA; HPM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- Number of pages
- 331
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349315741
- ISBN
- 9781349315741
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Condition: New
€ 67.33
€ 67.33
Hardback. Challenging the linear view of history which confines or predetermines the outcome of politics, this book argues for an 'untimely' politics, rendering the past problematic and the future unpredictable. Series: Taking on the Political. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: CFA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748617661
- ISBN
- 9780748617661
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Condition: New
€ 124.85€ 120.22
€ 124.85
€ 120.22
Paperback. The Liar Paradox challenges logicians' and semanticists' theories of truth and meaning. This book, entirely written in dispute style, provides a formal reconstruction of several medieval theories of truth, demonstrating their relevance to modern research. Editor(s): Rahman, Shahid; Tulenheimo, Tero; Genot, Emmanuel. Series: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science. Num Pages: 362 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; CFG; HPCB; HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 557.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 2008
- Number of pages
- 362
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048178889
- ISBN
- 9789048178889
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Condition: New
€ 194.82
€ 194.82
Paperback. BIC Classification: CFA. Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349579792
- ISBN
- 9781349579792
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844650774
- ISBN
- 9781844650774
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Condition: New
€ 50.29
€ 50.29
Hardcover. Sharing a commitment to the theory of communication to Habermas' Theory of Communicative Action, Grant here issues a range of challenges to it. He critiques theories of dialogism and intersubjectivity, proposes a rethinking of the communicating subject in society and explores the new contingencies of culture and media in today's world. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; CFG; GTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230517622
- ISBN
- 9780230517622
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Paperback. Sharing a commitment to the theory of communication to Habermas' Theory of Communicative Action, Grant here issues a range of challenges to it. He critiques theories of dialogism and intersubjectivity, proposes a rethinking of the communicating subject in society and explores the new contingencies of culture and media in today's world. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CBX; CFA; DSB; HP; JFD; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349355259
- ISBN
- 9781349355259
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Condition: New
€ 65.80
€ 65.80
Paperback. Num Pages: 367 pages. BIC Classification: CFA; HPCB; HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 234 x 23. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Paul Dry Books, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 367
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781589880962
- ISBN
- 9781589880962
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Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 31.82
€ 47.99
€ 31.82
Paperback. This book contains an original analysis of the existential there-sentence from a philosophical-linguistic perspective. At its core is the claim that there-sentences' form is distinct from that of ordinary subject predicate sentences, and that this fundamental difference explains the construction's unusual grammatical and discourse properties." Series: Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language & Cognition. Num Pages: 177 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CBX; CFA; CFGA; CFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Number of pages
- 177
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349503216
- ISBN
- 9781349503216
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. aeo Constitutes a self--contained introduction to the key issues and results of the philosophy of language. aeo Accessible to both undergraduate and more advanced students of philosophy. aeo Includes many "sidebars" which expand on points made in the main text which may be either skipped or included. Num Pages: 416 pages, 0. BIC Classification: CFA; CFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 165 x 22. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781577180494
- ISBN
- 9781577180494
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.25
€ 50.25
Hardcover. This wide-ranging volume is an introduction to the key issues and results of the philosophy of language. In particular, it focuses on the philosophical foundations of semantics, including the main challenges to and prospects for a truth conditional semantics. Num Pages: 416 pages, 0. BIC Classification: CFA; CFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 165 x 32. Weight in Grams: 768.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781577180487
- ISBN
- 9781577180487
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.15
€ 138.15
Hardback. Based on the foundation of Wittgenstein's Tractatus and related writings of Bertrand Russell, Truth and Knowledge explores the basic problems of knowledge through the process of developing a theory of truth, uniquely the author's own. Num Pages: 204 pages. BIC Classification: CFA; HP; HR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 144 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761802686
- ISBN
- 9780761802686
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.66
€ 116.66
Hardback. The nature of truth is one of the central philosophical problems of all time. This work draws together contributions from analytic philosophers who approach the problem within the context established by the results of Alfred Tarski. It is devoted to a reconsideration of some of the classical ideas about truth. Editor(s): Peregrin, Jaroslav. Series: Synthese Library. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; HPK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 505.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 221
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792358657
- ISBN
- 9780792358657
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.21
€ 132.21
Paperback. Regardless of its particular topic, each of Donald Davidsona s essays is part of a comprehensive progrqamme to address questions about language, mind and action, and their interconnections. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: CFA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 33. Weight in Grams: 812.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631169482
- ISBN
- 9780631169482
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.25
€ 50.25
Paperback. Editor(s): McDonald, Christie V.; Wihl, Gary. Series: Literature & Philosophy. Num Pages: 224 pages, 15 illustrations. BIC Classification: CFA; DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 513. Fine copy.
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press Pennsylvania
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- SKU
- KNH0011474
- ISBN
- 9780271010113
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
paperback. Series: Synthese Library. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; HPJ; HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer/Sci-Tech/Trade Netherlands
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2002
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048161218
- ISBN
- 9789048161218
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.88
€ 127.88
Hardback. Illustrates how second-language acquisition (SLA) data can instigate linguistic exploration and help inform linguistic and acquisition theory. The work also aims to further understanding of the relationship between FLA and SLA, universal grammar and the target-language input. Series: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics. Num Pages: 292 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; CFDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 609.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792324638
- ISBN
- 9780792324638
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.73
€ 133.73