Télécharger le livre :  Conjoining Meanings
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Humans naturally acquire languages that connect meanings with pronunciations. Paul M. Pietroski presents an account of these distinctive languages as generative procedures that respect substantive constraints. Children acquire meaningful lexical items that can be...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2018-04-12

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Télécharger le livre :  Events and Semantic Architecture
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This book explores how grammatical structure is related to meaning. The meaning of a phrase clearly depends on its constituent words and how they are combined. But how does structure contribute to meaning in natural language? Does combining adjectives with nouns (as in...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2004-11-11

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Télécharger le livre :  Causing Actions
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Thoughts often cause deeds. Actions are done for reasons. But do actions and their mental causes also have descriptions that do not involve reasons? Various considerations can make it seem that human mental events must be biochemical events. Paul Pietroski, however,...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2000-03-23

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