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Book An Analysis of Resemblance

Download or read book An Analysis of Resemblance written by Ralph W. Church dec'd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-24 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1952, An Analysis of Resemblance has two-fold aims. The opening chapters seek to present what it is not about. It is not concerned with any sense of resemblance in which that term is used by thinkers generally and widely called Hegelian Idealists. The several subsequent chapters of the work advance an analysis of four senses of resemblance. Two of these four senses would seem to be radical – in the etymological sense of the term. The other two senses are derivative. The concluding chapter advances some considerations as to the bearing of an analysis of resemblance on the matters of universals and taxonomy. Professor Church’s clearly stated ideas will arouse much discussion among students of philosophy. This book helps to round off his studies in this field and is a worthy successor to his earlier works.

Book Resemblance and Representation

Download or read book Resemblance and Representation written by Ben Blumson and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2014-09-21 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s a platitude – which only a philosopher would dream of denying – that whereas words are connected to what they represent merely by arbitrary conventions, pictures are connected to what they represent by resemblance. The most important difference between my portrait and my name, for example, is that whereas my portrait and I are connected by my portrait’s resemblance to me, my name and I are connected merely by an arbitrary convention. The first aim of this book is to defend this platitude from the apparently compelling objections raised against it, by analysing depiction in a way which reveals how it is mediated by resemblance. It’s natural to contrast the platitude that depiction is mediated by resemblance, which emphasises the differences between depictive and descriptive representation, with an extremely close analogy between depiction and description, which emphasises the similarities between depictive and descriptive representation. Whereas the platitude emphasises that the connection between my portrait and me is natural in a way the connection between my name and me is not, the analogy emphasises the contingency of the connection between my portrait and me. Nevertheless, the second aim of this book is to defend an extremely close analogy between depiction and description. The strategy of the book is to argue that the apparently compelling objections raised against the platitude that depiction is mediated by resemblance are manifestations of more general problems, which are familiar from the philosophy of language. These problems, it argues, can be resolved by answers analogous to their counterparts in the philosophy of language, without rejecting the platitude. So the combination of the platitude that depiction is mediated by resemblance with a close analogy between depiction and description turns out to be a compelling theory of depiction, which combines the virtues of common sense with the insights of its detractors.

Book Reflections on Resemblance  Ritual  and Religion

Download or read book Reflections on Resemblance Ritual and Religion written by Brian K. Smith and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe. This book was released on 1998 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classical Vedic texts that deal with large-scale sacrificial ritual and those writings that deal with domestic ritual have traditionally been treated as unrelated. The former are devoted to the explication of rituals that are dominated by wealthy male elites; the latter concern humble private ceremonies more open to famale participation. Reflections on Resemblance, Ritual and Religion argues that there is in fact, a fundamental connection between these two large and important bodies of Indic religious literature.

Book Family Resemblance

Download or read book Family Resemblance written by Marcela Malek Sulak and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Nonfiction. Hybrid Genre. Poetry. Fiction. Art. Cultural Studies. When we talk about hybrid literary genres, what do we mean? Unprecedented in both its scope and approach, FAMILY RESEMBLANCE is the first anthology to explore the answer to that question in depth, providing craft essays and examples of hybrid forms by 43 distinguished authors. In this study of eight hybrid genres--including lyric essay, epistolary, poetic memoir, prose poetry, performative, short-form nonfiction, flash fiction, and pictures made of words--the family tree of hybridity takes delightful shape, showcasing how cross-genre works blend features from multiple literary parents to create new entities, forms that feel more urgent than ever in today's increasingly heterogeneous landscape. Introductions and an afterword discuss the importance and current popularity of hybridity in literature and culture and offer methods for teaching hybrid works. Intended for both scholarly and general readers, this seminal collection sparkles with inventiveness and creative zeal--an essential guidebook to a developing field. Contributors: Kazim Ali - Susanne Paola Antonetta - Andrea Baker - Jennifer Bartlett - Mira Bartók - Jenny Boully - Julie Carr - Katie Cortese - Nick Flynn - Sarah Gorham - Arielle Greenberg - Carol Guess - Terrance Hayes - Robin Hemley - Takashi Hiraide - Tung-Hui Hu - Mark Jarman - A. Van Jordan - Etgar Keret - Joy Ladin - Miriam Libicki - Bret Lott - Stan Mack - Sabrina Orah Mark - Brenda Miller - Ander Monson - Maggie Nelson - Amy Newman - Gregory Orr - Julio Ortega - Jena Osman - Kathleen Ossip - Pamela Painter - Craig Santos Perez - Khadijah Queen - David Shields - Mary Szybist - Sarah Vap - Patricia Vigderman - Julie Marie Wade - Diane Wakoski - Joe Wenderoth - Rachel Zucker

Book Resemblance Nominalism

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2002-07-04
  • ISBN : 0199243778
  • Pages : 251 pages

Download or read book Resemblance Nominalism written by Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-04 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gardeners, poets, lovers, and philosophers are all interested in the redness of roses; but only philosophers wonder how it is that two different roses can share the same property. Are red things red because they resemble each other? Or do they resemble each other because they are red? Since the 1970s philosophers have tended to favour the latter view, and held that a satisfactory account of properties must involve the postulation of either universals or tropes. But Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra revives the dormant alternative theory of resemblance nominalism, showing first that it can withstand the attacks of such eminent opponents as Goodman and Armstrong, and then that there are reasons to prefer it to its rival theories. The clarity and rigour of his arguments will challenge metaphysicians to rethink their views on properties.

Book The Elements of Biblical Interpretation      Together with an Analysis of the Rationalistic and Mystic Modes of Interpreting  Etc

Download or read book The Elements of Biblical Interpretation Together with an Analysis of the Rationalistic and Mystic Modes of Interpreting Etc written by Leicester Ambrose SAWYER and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Rule of Metaphor

Download or read book The Rule of Metaphor written by Paul Ricoeur and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book Transactions

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  • Author : Medico-Legal Society (Great Britain)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1925
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book Transactions written by Medico-Legal Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Elements of Physiological Psychology     thoroughly Rev  and Re written  by George Trumbull Ladd    Robert Sessions Woodworth

Download or read book Elements of Physiological Psychology thoroughly Rev and Re written by George Trumbull Ladd Robert Sessions Woodworth written by George Trumbull Ladd and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings of the 48th Industrial Waste Conference Purdue University  May 1993

Download or read book Proceedings of the 48th Industrial Waste Conference Purdue University May 1993 written by Ronald F. Wukasch and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1993-12-28 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known and used throughout the world, the Purdue Industrial Waste Conference Proceedings books are the most highly regarded in the waste treatment field. New research, case histories, and operating data cover every conceivable facet of today's big problems in environmental control, treatment, regulation, and compliance. This volume representing the proceedings from the 48th conference provides unparalled information and data for your current waste problems.

Book Readings in Cognitive Science

Download or read book Readings in Cognitive Science written by Allan Collins and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-02 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readings in Cognitive Science: A Perspective from Psychology and Artificial Intelligence brings together important studies that fall in the intersection between artificial intelligence and cognitive psychology. This book is composed of six chapters, and begins with the complex anatomy and physiology of the human brain. The next chapters deal with the components of cognitive science, such as the semantic memory, similarity and analogy, and learning. These chapters also consider the application of mental models, which represent the domain-specific knowledge needed to understand a dynamic system or natural physical phenomena. The remaining chapters discuss the concept of reasoning, problem solving, planning, vision, and imagery. This book is of value to psychologists, psychiatrists, neurologists, and researchers who are interested in cognition.

Book The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics

Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics written by Berys Nigel Gaut and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing fifty-four chapters written by leading international scholars and covering all aspects of aesthetics, this fully revised second edition includes eight new entries and updated further reading.

Book The Revival of Philosophical Scepticism

Download or read book The Revival of Philosophical Scepticism written by Davidson Hume and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Mechanical Mind

Download or read book The Mechanical Mind written by Tim Crane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can the human mind represent the external world? What is thought, and can it be studied scientifically? Should we think of the mind as a kind of machine? Is the mind a computer? Can a computer think? Tim Crane sets out to answer these questions and more in a lively and straightforward way, presuming no prior knowledge of philosophy or related disciplines. Since its first publication, The Mechanical Mind has introduced thousands of people to some of the most important ideas in contemporary philosophy of mind. Crane explains the fundamental ideas that cut across philosophy of mind, artificial intelligence and cognitive science: what the mind–body problem is; what a computer is and how it works; what thoughts are and how computers and minds might have them. He examines different theories of the mind from dualist to eliminativist, and questions whether there can be thought without language and whether the mind is subject to the same causal laws as natural phenomena. The result is a fascinating exploration of the theories and arguments surrounding the notions of thought and representation. This third edition has been fully revised and updated, and includes a wholly new chapter on externalism about mental content and the extended and embodied mind. There is a stronger emphasis on the environmental and bodily context in which thought occurs. Many chapters have been reorganised to make the reader’s passage through the book easier. The book now contains a much more detailed guide to further reading, and the chronology and the glossary of technical terms have also been updated. The Mechanical Mind is accessible to anyone interested in the mechanisms of our minds, and essential reading for those studying philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, or cognitive psychology.

Book The Philosophical Review

Download or read book The Philosophical Review written by Jacob Gould Schurman and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international journal of general philosophy.