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Common terms and phrasesabstract analogy analytic-synthetic distinction animal approach atom attributes Black boolean lattice canonical graph capture Carnap chapter class inclusion color common supertype comparison view concept nodes concept type conceptual graphs context determinate determinate-determinable relation distinction domains DTH theory dynamic type hierarchy entails entities example expression family resemblance theory first-order logic Frege's Furthermore inheritance interaction view interpretation kind knowledge representation lambda abstraction language-game literal logic mapping mask meaning modal logic natural language natural language processing necessary and sufficient Nominalist objects open texture ordinary language philosophy Ortony parse tree predicate calculus primitives problem propositions prototype prototype theory represent salience schemata Searle second-order properties semantic hierarchy semantic network sentence similarity solar system Sowa specifier speech statements structure subtype sufficient conditions supertypes in common tenor and vehicle theory of metaphor things Tourangeau type node view of metaphor Wittgenstein word sense Popular passagesPage 1 - But yet if we would speak of things as they are, we must allow that all the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, all the artificial and figurative application of words eloquence hath invented, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move thii passions, and thereby mislead the judgment, and so indeed are perfect cheats... Page 205 - language-game' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, or of a form of life. Page 61 - The saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is, to my mind, a very dangerous adage. If knowledge is real and genuine, I do not believe that it is other than a very valuable possession, nowever infinitesimal its quantity may be. Indeed, if a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger... Page 14 - Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, half-way down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight to the depths, perhaps a tear formed; a tear fell; the waters swayed this way and that, received it, and were at rest. Never did anybody look so sad. Page 33 - ... taken to be stylistic. We are told that the metaphorical expression may (in its literal use) refer to a more concrete object than would its literal equivalent; and this is supposed to give pleasure to the reader (the pleasure of having one's thoughts diverted from Richard to the irrelevant lion). Again, the reader is taken to enjoy problem-solving — or to delight in the author's skill at half-concealing, half-revealing his meaning. Or metaphors provide a shock of "agreeable surprise" — and... Page 27 - What I am pointing out is that unless you are at home in the metaphor, unless you have had your proper poetical education in the metaphor, you are not safe anywhere. Because you are not at ease with figurative values: you don't know the metaphor in its strength and its weakness. You don't know how far you may expect to ride it and when it may break down with you. Page 130 - Some metaphors enable us to see aspects of reality that the metaphor's production helps to constitute Page 62 - Any mechanically embodied intelligent process will be comprised of structural ingredients that (a) we as external observers naturally take to represent a prepositional account of the knowledge that the overall process exhibits, and (b) independent of such external semantical attribution, play a formal but causal and essential role in engendering the behaviour that manifests that knowledge. Page 11 - Human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when all the time we are longing to move the stars to pity. References to this bookFrom other books
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