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9780691144955 | Princeton Univ Pr, May 11, 2014, cover price $45.00

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9780691173658 | Reprint edition (Princeton Univ Pr, November 1, 2016), cover price $27.95

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Product Description: Conditionals are sentences of the form 'If A, then B', and they play a central role in scientific, logical, and everyday reasoning. They have been in the philosophical limelight for centuries, and more recently, they have been receiving attention from psychologists, linguists, and computer scientists...read more

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9781107111455 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 31, 2015, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: Conditionals are sentences of the form 'If A, then B', and they play a central role in scientific, logical, and everyday reasoning.

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9781107009752 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 30, 2015, cover price $110.00

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Product Description: The word 'ought' is one of the core normative terms, but it is also a modal word. In this book Matthew Chrisman develops a careful account of the semantics of 'ought' as a modal operator, and uses this to motivate a novel inferentialist account of why ought-sentences have the meaning that they have...read more

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9780199363001, titled "The Meaning of 'Ought': Beyond Descriptivism and Expressivism in Metaethics" | Oxford Univ Pr, October 23, 2015, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: The word 'ought' is one of the core normative terms, but it is also a modal word.

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9780515128062, titled "Game of Chance" | Jove Pubns, May 1, 2000, cover price $5.99 | also contains Game of Chance | About this edition: Dex Yancy's smooth-running plan to pose as a hitman and collect three thousand dollars is derailed by the beautiful woman he is supposed to kill.

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9780199967407 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 2, 2013, cover price $73.00

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9780190275549 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, October 1, 2015), cover price $35.00

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Product Description: The problem of the unity of the proposition is almost as old as philosophy itself, and was one of the central themes of early analytical philosophy, greatly exercising the minds of Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, and Ramsey. The problem is how propositions or meanings can be simultaneously unities (single things) and complexes, made up of parts that are autonomous of the positions they happen to fill in any given proposition...read more

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9780199694846 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 15, 2011, cover price $66.00

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9780198709329 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, July 28, 2015), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: The problem of the unity of the proposition is almost as old as philosophy itself, and was one of the central themes of early analytical philosophy, greatly exercising the minds of Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, and Ramsey.

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Product Description: Truth Be Told explains how truth and falsity result from relations that sentences have to the contexts in which they occur and the circumstances at which they are evaluated. It offers a precise conception of truth and a clear diagnosis of the Liar and Grelling paradoxes...read more

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9781433130090 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, July 29, 2015, cover price $67.95 | About this edition: Truth Be Told explains how truth and falsity result from relations that sentences have to the contexts in which they occur and the circumstances at which they are evaluated.

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9780415553001, titled "Blind Obedience: Paradox and Learning in the Later Wittgenstein" | 1 edition (Routledge, January 31, 2010), cover price $155.00

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Product Description: First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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9780415009393 | Routledge, October 1, 1992, cover price $170.00 | About this edition: First published in 1992.

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9781138871380 | Routledge, November 10, 2014, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: First published in 1992.

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9780203169001 | Routledge, May 20, 2003, cover price $150.00

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Product Description: In this study two strands of inferentialism are brought together: the philosophical doctrine of Brandom, according to which meanings are generally inferential roles, and the logical doctrine prioritizing proof-theory over model theory and approaching meaning in logical, especially proof-theoretical terms...read more

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9781137452955 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 7, 2014, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: In this study two strands of inferentialism are brought together: the philosophical doctrine of Brandom, according to which meanings are generally inferential roles, and the logical doctrine prioritizing proof-theory over model theory and approaching meaning in logical, especially proof-theoretical terms.

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Product Description: While lying has been a topic in the philosophy of language, there has been a lack of genuine linguistic analysis of lying. Exploring lying at the semantics-pragmatics interface, this book takes a contextualist stand by arguing that untruthful implicatures and presuppositions are part of the total signification of the act of lying...read more

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9781614510925 | Mouton De Gruyter, May 31, 2014, cover price $154.00 | About this edition: While lying has been a topic in the philosophy of language, there has been a lack of genuine linguistic analysis of lying.

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This book is a great book for term definition memorization.

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9780077630799 | 9 pck har/ edition (Irwin Professional Pub, February 27, 2012), cover price $332.65
9780078029240 | 9 edition (Irwin Professional Pub, January 17, 2012), cover price $333.35
9780078137198 | 8 edition (Irwin Professional Pub, January 18, 2010), cover price $237.85
9780073260716 | 6 pck har/ edition (Irwin Professional Pub, December 30, 2005), cover price $173.60
9780073102559 | 6 edition (McGraw-Hill College, December 1, 2005), cover price $184.60
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9780077437602 | 9 unbnd edition (Irwin Professional Pub, January 21, 2012), cover price $253.50
9780071287982 | 7 edition (McGraw-Hill Education, March 1, 2008), cover price $89.75
9781428812420 | 5th edition (Academic Internet Pub Inc, October 31, 2006), cover price $38.95 | About this edition: This book is a great book for term definition memorization.
9781428805071 | Academic Internet Pub Inc, October 30, 2006, cover price $31.95
9780317940268, titled "Dom Perignon: Man and Myth" | Fetters Pubns, May 1, 1989, cover price $8.95 | also contains Dom Perignon: Man and Myth

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Product Description: This textbook introduces undergraduate students of language and linguistics to the basic ideas, insights, and techniques of contemporary semantic theory. The book starts with everyday observations about word meaning and use and then gradually zooms in on the question of how speakers manage to meaningfully communicate with phrases, sentences, and texts they have never come across before...read more

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9783110308006 | Mouton De Gruyter, May 31, 2013, cover price $42.00 | About this edition: This textbook introduces undergraduate students of language and linguistics to the basic ideas, insights, and techniques of contemporary semantic theory.

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Product Description: Wittgenstein is one of the most important and influential twentieth-century philosophers in the western tradition. In his Philosophical Investigations he undertakes a radical critique of analytical philosophy's approach to both the philosophy of language and the philosophy of mind...read more

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9780415452564 | Reprint edition (Routledge, March 22, 2013), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Wittgenstein is one of the most important and influential twentieth-century philosophers in the western tradition.

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Product Description: Philosophy of language explores some of the fundamental yet most technical problems in philosophy, such as meaning and reference, semantics, and propositional attitudes. Some of its greatest exponents, including Gottlob Frege, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell are amongst the major figures in the history of philosophy...read more

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9780415517836 | Reprint edition (Routledge, April 23, 2013), cover price $160.00 | About this edition: Philosophy of language explores some of the fundamental yet most technical problems in philosophy, such as meaning and reference, semantics, and propositional attitudes.

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9780415517843 | Reprint edition (Routledge, April 19, 2013), cover price $47.95 | About this edition: Philosophy of language explores some of the fundamental yet most technical problems in philosophy, such as meaning and reference, semantics, and propositional attitudes.

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By Dagfinn Follesdal (foreword by)

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9780262518314 | New edition (Mit Pr, January 25, 2013), cover price $40.00

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Product Description: Victor Dudman's revolutionary English Grammar brings grammar and logic together by conceiving grammar as 'the necessary preliminary to logic'. The focus, for logicians, is the discussion of 'conditionals'; for grammarians it is the concise and accurate explanation of the infamous English modals...read more

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9781137029249 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 24, 2012, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: Victor Dudman's revolutionary English Grammar brings grammar and logic together by conceiving grammar as 'the necessary preliminary to logic'.

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Product Description: International führende Autoren wenden sich in Originalbeiträgen dem wichtigsten Problem der Sprachphilosophie zu, der Frage, wie - angesichts einflussreicher skeptischer Attacken, die insbesondere von Willard Van Quine und Saul Kripke und ihren Anhängern gegen den Begriff der Bedeutung geführt wurden -, die Aussichten zu beurteilen sind, eine haltbare Theorie der Bedeutung zu entwickeln...read more
By Richard Schantz (editor)

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9783110196238, titled "Prospects for Meaning: Prospects for Meaning" | Walter De Gruyter Inc, September 30, 2012, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: International führende Autoren wenden sich in Originalbeiträgen dem wichtigsten Problem der Sprachphilosophie zu, der Frage, wie - angesichts einflussreicher skeptischer Attacken, die insbesondere von Willard Van Quine und Saul Kripke und ihren Anhängern gegen den Begriff der Bedeutung geführt wurden -, die Aussichten zu beurteilen sind, eine haltbare Theorie der Bedeutung zu entwickeln.

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Product Description: How are humorous meanings generated and interpreted? Understanding a joke involves knowledge of the language code (a matter mostly of semantics) and background knowledge necessary for making the inferences to get the joke (a matter of pragmatics)...read more

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9781107004634 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, June 30, 2012), cover price $110.00 | About this edition: How are humorous meanings generated and interpreted?

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9780521181068 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 30, 2012, cover price $39.99 | About this edition: How are humorous meanings generated and interpreted?

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