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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Knowledge and Language
    sub title: Selected Essays of L. Jonathan Cohen
  name:
    name part: Cohen, L. Jonathan.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2002
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (352 pages)
  abstract: This collection of twenty papers deals with a wide range of issues in philosophy of language, epistemology, history of philosophy, philosophy of psychology, jurisprudence and philosophy of science. It should be of interest to, and prove a stimulus for new work by, researchers and practitioners working in any of these fields. Tracing a route backwards through the papers as presented here, the final group is largely concerned with how empirical knowledge may be acquired through evidence in states of uncertainty; the middle group explores how such evidence often requires or results in conceptual innovation and is given to us in language the meaning of which may be difficult to determine; the first group explores how a theory of meaning can be constructed for natural and artificial languages. The papers exhibit a distinctive analytical perspective and a great deal of thematic continuity, underpinned by commitment to the richness both of language and of enquiry and opposition to simplistic or dogmatic formalisations and analyses.
  table of contents: Preface. Introduction -- 1. On the Project of a Universal Character -- 2. On a Concept of Degree of Grammaticalness -- 3. The Semantics of Metaphor -- 4. Can the Logic of Indirect Discourse be Formalised?- 5. Grice's Views About the Logical Particles of Natural Language -- 6. Can the Conversationalist Hypothesis be Defended?- 7. How is Conceptual Innovation Possible?- 8. Natural Language Definitions -- 9. A Problem About Ambiguity in Truth-Theoretical Semantics -- 10. The Individuation of Proper Names -- 11. Third World Epistemology -- 12. Guessing -- 13. Bayesianism versus Baconianism in the Evaluation of Medical Diagnoses -- 14. Are People Programmed to Commit Fallacies?- 15. Inductive Logic 1945-1977 -- 16. Some Remarks on the Baconian Conception of Probability -- 17. Twelve Questions about Keynes's Concept of Weight -- 18. Some Steps towards a General Theory of Relevance -- 19. Should a Jury Say What it Believes or what it Accepts?- 20. Ethical Reasons for Being, or not Being, a Scientific Realist.
  note: by L. Jonathan Cohen.
  note: Electronic resource.
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy (General)
  subject:
    topic: Genetic epistemology
  subject:
    topic: Linguistics
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Philosophy
  classification: BD143-237
  classification: 120
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; 227
  identifier: 9789401720205 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9401720207 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9789048159550
  identifier: 9048159555
  identifier: 9401720207
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  record info:
    record content source: AU@
    record creation date: 130109
    record change date: 20260422211353.4
    record identifier: in00003578035
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng