Knowledge and language
Subtitle: selected essays of L. Jonathan Cohen
By: by L. Jonathan Cohen ; edited and with an introduction by James Logue.
Contributors: Logue, James.
Series: Boston studies in the philosophy of science,; v. 227
Publisher: Kluwer Academic
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Dordrecht; Boston, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
Subjects: Semantics (Philosophy); Language and languages; Knowledge, Theory of; Psycholinguistics; Linguistics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Collection of previously published texts.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Preface vii; title: Publisher's Note ix; title: Introduction xi; title: James Logue; title: 1 On the Project of A Universal Character 1; title: 2 On A Concept Of Degree Of Grammaticalness 15; title: 3 The semantics of metaphor 27; title: 4 Can The Logic Of Indirect Discourse Be Formalised? 41; title: 5 Some Remarks On Grice's Views About The Logical Particles Of 49; title: Natural Language; title: 6 Can The Conversationalist Hypothesis Be Defended? 67; title: 7 How Is Conceptual Innovation Possible? 77; title: 8 Natural Language Definitions 95; title: 9 A Problem About Ambiguity In Truth-Theoretical Semantics 113; title: 10 The Individuation of Proper Names 119; title: 11 Third World Epistemology 141; title: 12 Guessing 155; title: 13 Bayesianism versus Baconianism in the Evaluation of Medical Diagnoses 175; title: 14 Are People Programmed to Commit Fallacies? 195; title: 15 Inductive Logic 1945-1977 221; title: 16 Some Historical Remarks On the Baconian Conception of Probability 245; title: 17 Twelve Questions about Keynes's Concept of Weight 261; title: 18 Some Steps towards a General Theory of Relevance 279; title: 19 Should A Jury Say What It Believes Or What It Accepts? 293; title: 20 Are There Ethical Reasons For Being, Or Not Being, A Scientific 313; title: Realist?.