Partial differential equations : modeling, analysis and numerical approximation / Hervé Le Dret, Brigitte Lucquin

• Record Nr.: UNICAMPANIASUN0115263
• Autore: Le Dret, Hervé
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: XI, 395 p., : ill. ; 24 cm
• Edizione: [Cham : Birkhäuser : Springer, 2016]
• Descrizione fisica: Pubblicazione in formato elettronico
• Altri autori (Persone): Lucquin, Brigitte
• Soggetti: 35J25 - Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations [MSC 2020]; 35K05 - Heat equation [MSC 2020]; 65N30 - Finite elements, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods, finite methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs [MSC 2020]; 35L05 - Wave equation [MSC 2020]; 35K20 - Initial-boundary value problems for second-order parabolic equations [MSC 2020]; 65M06 - Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs [MSC 2020]; 65M12 - Stability and convergence of numerical methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs [MSC 2020]; 35J20 - Variational methods for second-order elliptic equations [MSC 2020]; 65M08 - Finite volume methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs [MSC 2020]; 35L03 - Initial value problems for first-order hyperbolic equations [MSC 2020]
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Directival Theory of Meaning : From Syntax and Pragmatics to Narrow Linguistic Content / / by Paweł Grabarczyk

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910337693303321
• Autore: Grabarczyk Paweł
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019
• ISBN: 3-030-18783-7
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2019.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XIV, 238 p. 1 illus.)
• Collana: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, , 0166-6991 ; ; 409
• Disciplina: 149.94; 410.1; 410.184
• Soggetti: Language and languages—Philosophy; Semantics; Philosophy of mind; Philosophy of Language; Philosophy of Mind
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Preface -- Chapter 1. The Directival Theory of Meaning -- Chapter 2. Aims and ambitions of the DTM -- Chapter 3. Troubles ahead -- Chapter 4. The DTM among classic theories -- Chapter 5. Stepping outside the original DTM -- Chapter 6. New Directival Theory of Meaning -- Chapter 7. The nDTM among contemporaries -- Afterword.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book presents a new approach to semantics based on Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz’s Directival Theory of Meaning (DTM), which in effect reduces semantics of the analysed language to the combination of its syntax and pragmatics. The author argues that the DTM was forgotten because for many years philosophers didn’t have conceptual tools to appreciate its innovative nature, and that the theory was far ahead of its time. The book shows how a redesigned and modernised version of the DTM can deliver a new solution to the problem of defining linguistic meaning and that the theory can be understood as a new type of functional role semantics. The defining feature of the DTM is that it ; presents meaning as a product of constraints on the usage of words. According to the DTM meaning is not use, but the avoidance of misuse. Readers will see how the DTM was shelved for reasons that we don’t find so dramatic anymore, and how it contains enough original ideas and solutions to warrant developing it into a full-blown contemporary account. It is shown how many of the underlying ideas of the theory have been embraced later by philosophers and treated simply as brute facts about natural languages or even as new philosophical discoveries. Philosophers of language and researchers with an interest in how languages and the mind work will find this book a fascinating read.