1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990000116520203316

Autore

Shi, Jian-Yi

Titolo

The Kazhdan-Lusztig cells in certain affine weyl groups / Shi Jian-Yi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin [etc.] : Springer-Verlag, copyr. 1986

ISBN

3-540-16439-1

Descrizione fisica

X, 307 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Collana

Lecture notes in mathematics ; 1179

Disciplina

5122

Collocazione

510 LNM (1179)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910812077203321

Autore

Cooper David E (David Edward), <1942-, >

Titolo

Meaning / / David E. Cooper

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2014

ISBN

1-317-48931-4

1-317-48932-2

1-315-71056-0

1-282-92148-7

9786612921483

1-84465-347-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (152 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Central problems of philosophy

Disciplina

121.68

Soggetti

Meaning (Philosophy)

Language and languages - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2003 by Acumen.



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; 1 Preliminaries; 2 The reach of meaning; 3 Language; 4 Knowledge, meaning and world; 5 Meaning, society and the human sciences; 6 Meaning and the Arts; 7 The meaning of life; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Meaning is one of our most central and most ubiquitous concepts. Anything at all may, in suitable contexts, have meaning ascribed to it. In this wide-ranging book, David Cooper departs from the usual focus on linguistic meaning to discuss how works of art, ceremony, social action, bodily gesture, and the purpose of life can all be meaningful. He argues that the notion of meaning is best approached by considering what we accept as explanations of meaning in everyday practice and shows that in these situations we are explaining the appropriate fit of an item – whether a word or an artwork – with something larger than or outside of itself. This fuller account of meaning explores questions of the meaning of meaning and tackles issues such as whether meaning is just a misleading "folk" term for something more basic, whether there really is meaning at all, and whether we should strive for meaning or let our lives "just be" rather than mean. By taking the problem of meaning out of the technical philosophy of language and providing a more general account Cooper is able to offer new insights into the import, function, and status of meaning that will be of interest not only to philosophers of language but to students and philosophers working in areas such as epistemology and metaphysics.