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Modality, Morality, and God

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God, Modality, and Morality

✍ William E. Mann 📂 Library 📅 2015 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English

Suppose that God exists: what difference would that make to the world? The answer depends on the nature of God and the nature of the world. In this book, William E. Mann argues in one new and sixteen previously published essays for a modern interpretation of a traditional conception of God as a simp

Decision Making: Descriptive, Normative,

📁 Decision Making: Descriptive, Normative, and Prescriptive Interactions

✍ David E. Bell, Howard Raiffa, Amos Tversky 📂 Library 📅 1988 🌐 English

The analysis of decision making under uncertainty has again become a major focus of interest. This volume presents contributions from leading specialists in different fields and provides a summary and synthesis of work in this area. It is based on a conference held at the Harvard Business School. Th

Mixing metaphor: a descriptive and presc

📁 Mixing metaphor: a descriptive and prescriptive analysis

✍ Jr, Raymond W Gibbs(Editor) 📂 Library 📅 2016 🏛 John Benjamins Publishing Company 🌐 English

Mixing metaphors in speech, writing, and even gesture, is traditionally viewed as a sign of inconsistency in thought and language. Despite the prominence of mixed metaphors, there have been surprisingly few attempts to comprehensively explain why people mix their metaphors so frequently and in the p

Modality in English: Theory and Descript

📁 Modality in English: Theory and Description

✍ Johan van der Auwera, Pierre Busuttil 📂 Library 📅 2009 🏛 Mouton de Gruyter 🌐 English

This volume presents strongly empirical, corpus-based studies of a range of English modal auxiliaries and modal constructions in specific uses. It also approaches some of the classic issues in the field of modality from new perspectives, notably that of the ??;Theory of Enunciative Operations?? deve

Modality in English: Theory and Descript

📁 Modality in English: Theory and Description

✍ Raphael Salkie (editor); Pierre Busuttil (editor); Johan van der Auwera (editor) 📂 Library 📅 2009 🏛 De Gruyter Mouton 🌐 English

This volume presents two kinds of studies on English modality. On the one hand, there are strongly empirical, corpus-based studies of individual uses of English modal auxiliaries and modal constructions, such as may in interrogatives, might in concessive clauses, shal