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.
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- London ; Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979.
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- Description
- xiii, 146 p.; 23 cm.
- Series statement
- International library of philosophy and scientific method
- Uniform title
- International library of philosophy and scientific method
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- Association copies (Provenance)
- 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.
- Owning institution
- Harvard Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-143) and index.
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- committed to retain