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Beyond the letter : a philosophical inquiry into ambiguity, vagueness, and metaphor in language / Israel Scheffler.
- Title
- Beyond the letter : a philosophical inquiry into ambiguity, vagueness, and metaphor in language / Israel Scheffler.
- Author
- Scheffler, Israel
- Publication
- London ; Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Quine, W. V. (Willard Van Orman)
- Description
- xiii, 146 p.; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- International library of philosophy and scientific method
- Uniform Title
- International library of philosophy and scientific method
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Association copies (Provenance)
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-143) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction. Idealisation and deviation ; Varieties of uuderstanding ; Theoretical accounts and their difficulties ; Inscriptionalistic assumptions -- Ambiguity. Introduction to the problem ; Inscriptions and extensions: elementary ambiguity ; E-ambiguity, generality, vagueness ; Ambiguity of occurrence: I-ambiguity ; Ambiguity of occurrence: M-ambiguity ; A new problem: Green centaurs ; Difference in meaning ; Constituent ambiguity ; Compound ambiguity ; Mention-selection -- Vagueness. Vagueness and I-ambiguity ; Vagueness, generality, precision ; Vagueness and molecular compounds ; Vagueness, atomic compounds and mention-selection ; Relativitivity and the universality of vagueness ; The possibility of vagueness ; Open texture, compounds and mention-selection ; Open texture and analyticity ; Open texture and relative terms ; Open texture and classification ; Vagueness and logic ; Vagueness, meaning and fact -- Metaphor. Metaphor, mention-selection and E-ambiguity ; Intuitionistic approach to metaphor ; Emotivism and metaphor ; Formulaic approach to metaphor ; Intensional approach to metaphor ; Evaluation of intensionalism ; Interactionsm and metaphor ; Evaluation of interactionism ; Contextualism and metaphor ; Evaluation of contextualism ; Metaphor and exploration.
- ISBN
- 0710003153
- LCCN
- ^^^79040095^//r924
- OCLC
- 5966165
- SCSB-11947232
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library