This is part of a three-volume collection of most of David Lewis' papers in philosophy, except for those that previously appeared in his Philosophical Papers (Oxford University Press, 1983 and 1986). They are now offered in a readily accessible form. This second volume is devoted to Lewis' work in m
Writing in Water / Ins Wasser Schreiben. Studies in the Epistemology of Metaphor / Studien zur Epistemologie der Metapher
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- Publisher
- FF press
- Year
- 2023
- Tongue
- English, German
- Leaves
- 460
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
The book contains a collection of historical and systematic studies on interactionist theories of metaphor and related topics, in German and English. Grouped in sections, they do not represent versions of the same text in two different language but provide individual elaborations of interrelated topics. Each begins with different problems of both historical and systematic nature and each ends by tempting to elaborate new points to their respective topic. As a result, every chapter can be read either as an alternative to the paper it is paired with in the respective section or as a supplement to other texts.
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This is part of a three-volume collection of most of David Lewis' papers in philosophy, except for those that previously appeared in his Philosophical Papers (Oxford University Press, 1983 and 1986). They are now offered in a readily accessible form. This second volume is devoted to Lewis' work in m
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This book elucidates how the so-called problem of inference, long a matter of debate among philosophers of logic, epistemology, language, and other domains of speculation, is inextricably tied to the issue of how, in the classical idiom, Knowing is of Being. Motivating this project is an underlying