Download or read book And written by Barry Schein and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-07-21 with total page 1035 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold argument that “and” always means “&,” the truth-functional sentential connective. In this book, Barry Schein argues that “and” is always the sentential logical connective with the same, one, meaning. “And” always means “&,” across the varied constructions in which it is tokened in natural language. Schein examines the constructions that challenge his thesis, and shows that the objections disappear when these constructions are translated into Eventish, a neo-Davidsonian event semantics, and, enlarged with Cinerama Semantics, a vocabulary for spatial orientation and navigation. Besides rescuing “and” from ambiguity, Eventish and Cinerama Semantics solve general puzzles of grammar and meaning unrelated to conjunction, revealing the book's central thesis in the process: aspects of meaning mistakenly attributed to “and” are discovered to reflect neighboring structures previously unseen and unacknowledged. Schein argues that Eventish and Cinerama Semantics offer a fundamental revision to clause structure and what aspects of meaning are represented therein. Eventish is distinguished by four features: supermonadicity, which enlarges verbal decomposition so that every argument relates to its own event; descriptive event anaphora, which replaces simple event variables with silent descriptive pronouns; adverbialization, which interposes adverbials derived from the descriptive content of every DP; and AdrPs, which replace all NPs with Address Phrases that locate what nominals denote within scenes or frames of reference. With 'And,' Schein rehabilitates an old rule of transformational, generative grammar, answering the challenges to it exhaustively and meticulously.
Download or read book First Book in Arithmetic written by Daniel Fish and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-04-18 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Download or read book Making Numbers Count written by Chip Heath and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clear, practical, first-of-its-kind guide to communicating and understanding numbers and data—from bestselling business author Chip Heath. How much bigger is a billion than a million? Well, a million seconds is twelve days. A billion seconds is…thirty-two years. Understanding numbers is essential—but humans aren’t built to understand them. Until very recently, most languages had no words for numbers greater than five—anything from six to infinity was known as “lots.” While the numbers in our world have gotten increasingly complex, our brains are stuck in the past. How can we translate millions and billions and milliseconds and nanometers into things we can comprehend and use? Author Chip Heath has excelled at teaching others about making ideas stick and here, in Making Numbers Count, he outlines specific principles that reveal how to translate a number into our brain’s language. This book is filled with examples of extreme number makeovers, vivid before-and-after examples that take a dry number and present it in a way that people click in and say “Wow, now I get it!” You will learn principles such as: -SIMPLE PERSPECTIVE CUES: researchers at Microsoft found that adding one simple comparison sentence doubled how accurately users estimated statistics like population and area of countries. -VIVIDNESS: get perspective on the size of a nucleus by imagining a bee in a cathedral, or a pea in a racetrack, which are easier to envision than “1/100,000th of the size of an atom.” -CONVERT TO A PROCESS: capitalize on our intuitive sense of time (5 gigabytes of music storage turns into “2 months of commutes, without repeating a song”). -EMOTIONAL MEASURING STICKS: frame the number in a way that people already care about (“that medical protocol would save twice as many women as curing breast cancer”). Whether you’re interested in global problems like climate change, running a tech firm or a farm, or just explaining how many Cokes you’d have to drink if you burned calories like a hummingbird, this book will help math-lovers and math-haters alike translate the numbers that animate our world—allowing us to bring more data, more naturally, into decisions in our schools, our workplaces, and our society.
Download or read book Their Secret Twins written by Tara Taylor Quinn and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2023-06-27 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He showed up on her doorstep with a surprise… The lure of big-city finance launched Jordon Lawrence away from Shelter Valley—and broke the heart of his fiancée, Mia Jones. But the once picture-perfect couple donated embryos while they were together, and they live on…in the form of orphaned four-year-old twins! When Jordon is tapped to be the girls’ guardian, the first person he thinks to turn to is Mia. Finally, the dream of motherhood is within her grasp…if they can mend the wounds of the past! From Harlequin Special Edition: Believe in love. Overcome obstacles. Find happiness. Sierra's Web Book 1: His Lost and Found Family Book 2: Reluctant Roommates Book 3: Tracking His Secret Child Book 4: Her Best Friend's Baby Book 5: Cold Case Sheriff Book 6: The Bounty Hunter's Baby Search Book 7: On the Run with His Bodyguard Book 8: Their Secret Twins Book 9: Old Dogs, New Truths Book 10: Not Without Her Child Book 11: A Firefighter's Hidden Truth Book 12: Last Chance Investigation Book 13: A Family-First Christmas Book 14: Danger on the River
Download or read book The Second Mrs Gioconda written by E.L. Konigsburg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did Leonardo da Vinci lavish three years on painting the second wife of an unimportant merchant when all the nobles of Europe were begging for a portrait by his hand? In E. L. Konigsburg's intriguing novel, the answer lies with the complex relationship between the genius, his morally questionable young apprentice, and a young duchess whose plain features belie the sensitivity of her soul.
Download or read book The American Cyclop dia written by George Ripley and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Hermead Philosophers written by Surazeus Astarius and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hermead of Surazeus is an epic poem about the development of philosophy over 600 years in the lives and ideas of 26 of the greatest philosophers who contributed to the growth of civilization. This single volume edition presents in 126,680 lines of pentameter blank verse the tales of Hermes, Prometheus, Kadmos, Asklepios, Zethos Hesiodos, Thales, Anaximandros, Pythagoras, Herakleitos, Parmenides, Anaxagoras, Empedokles, Leukippos, Philolaos, Demokritos, Aristokles Platon, Aristoteles, Demetrios Phalereus, Epikouros, Arkhimedes, Ktesibios, Eratosthenes, Krates, Hipparkhos, Philodemos, and Lucretius.
Download or read book The Talmud of Jerusalem written by Moïse Schwab and published by Christian Classics Reproductions. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jerusalem Talmud probably originated in Tiberias in the School of Johanan ben Nappaha. It is a compilation of teachings of the schools of Tiberias, Sepphoris and Caesarea. It is written largely in a western Aramaic dialect that differs from its Babylonian counterpart.
Download or read book The Hand book of Games written by Henry George Bohn and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Miranda and Caliban written by Jacqueline Carey and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dutiful and tenderhearted Miranda loves her father but is terribly lonely. She finds solace and companionship with Caliban, the strange and feral boy Prospero has bewitched to serve him. As Prospero weaves his magic and dreams of revenge, Miranda and Caliban battle the dark, unknowable forces that bind them to the island even as the pangs of adolescence create a new awareness of each other and their doomed relationship.
Download or read book A Summary of the Law and Practice of Real Actions written by Asahel Stearns and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Makeovers by Marcia written by Claudia Mills and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2005-03-09 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pretty is as pretty does Pretty, popular Marcia Faitak is not her usual self. Over the summer she gained five pounds, and when school begins, Marcia, desperate for an invitation from Alex Ryan to the October dance, goes on a diet. In art class, she's supposed to bring a red apple to life on paper, but all she wants to do is eat it. Mr. Morrison doesn't like her work anyway: disdainfully, he calls her drawing of a beautiful girl "Barbie." Worse than art is social studies. This is the year that kids have to choose their community service project. When Ms. Williams signs up Marcia to work at the local nursing home, she's aghast. What can she possibly do for a bunch of old people in wheelchairs? Since experimenting with makeup is Marcia's favorite activity, her half sister suggests "Makeovers by Marcia." In the fifth and final story in Claudia Mills's funny, philosophical series about the West Creek Middle School kids, Marcia discovers the nature of true beauty - and even learns to draw it.
Download or read book The Astronomical Calculations and Ramadan written by Zulfiqar Ali Shah and published by IIIT. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shatters the myth that naked-eye sighting of the new moon and completing thirty days in the case of weather-related or other obscurities are the only two valid methods of determining the month of Ramadan. The author explains that certainty, not actual sighting, is the real objective of the Shariah and that the Qur'an does not mandate physical sighting. A careful analysis shows that those hadiths that seemingly require sighting actually require certainty. The assertion that all Muslim scholars prohibit the use of astronomical calculations, both in affirming or negating the month of Ramadan, is not correct. As calculation is now more accurate than naked-eye sighting, due to certain astronomical and scientific advancements, the use of calculation is the closest to the real objective of the Shari'ah and to the spirit of the hadiths.
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