Showing papers on "Exemplification published in 1992"

Mind-Body Identity Theories

Abstract: One of the most central and familiar problems in the philosophy of mind is that of explaining the relation between mind and body. It seems that whatever mind is, it is inextricably bound up with the body of a person. Cynthia Macdonald believes that mind-body identity theories offer the best promise of a unified account of mind in its relation to body and of the phenomenon of causal interaction. The author traces the complex history of the mind-body identity theory. She concentrates on the type-type identity theories of Central State Materialists J.J.C. Smart and U.T. Place, the causal role identity theories of David Lewis and D.M. Armstrong, and the token-token identity theories of Jaegwan Kim and Donald Davidson. She goes on to give an extended and sophisticated defence of the theory of non-reductive monism, in the light of a view of events known as the property exemplification account. This book should be of interest to advanced students and lecturers of philosophy.

The sociolinguistics of exemplification in spoken French in Montréal

Abstract: Exemplification is considered to be a rhetorical procedure used to illustrate a point. In spoken discourse, we can attribute to it an argumentative and pragmatic character. In this study, the data base is constituted of utterances marked by exemplification particles ( par exemple, comme, genre, style, mettons , and disons ‘for example’, ‘like’, ‘of the (…) kind’, ‘of the (…) variety’, ‘let's say’) extracted from two corpora of spoken French in Montreal. One goal is to describe the constraints which govern the choice of discourse variant and at the same time to get the deepest insights possible into the procedure that interrelates these constraints. The main objective is to observe to what extent we can have access to the characteristics of a complex rhetorical phenomenon by using sociolinguistic data.

Robert Boyle's epistemology: The interaction between scientific and religious knowledge 1

Abstract: Boyle distinguished clearly between the areas which we would call scientific and theological. However, he felt that they overlapped seamlessly, and that the truths we discovered (or which were revealed to us) in one of these areas would be relevant to us in the other. In this paper I outline and discuss Boyle's views on the limitations of human knowing, Boyle's arguments in favour of accepting the revelations of the Christian faith, and his views on the kind of epistomological standing that scientific knowledge claims have. Given this background I then consider the relation between hypotheses, theories and facts in Boyle's work, and consider a particular case, that of Boyle's Law, as an exemplification of the claims made in the rest of the paper.

Exemplification and the Example.

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Lexical semantics without thematic roles By Yael Ravin (review)

Abstract: Case or agr. Just as abstract Case and AGR are cover terms for syntactic features with often idiosyncratic morphological realization, thematic roles seem most useful simply as syntactic designations for positions that enter into argument and adjunct relations. This is a good book, not just for its critique of theta theory, but also for the positive contribution of further development of the Decompositional Theory. Although the book is a revised dissertation, it doesn't read like one: the style is engaging and philosophical, and the exemplification is detailed and clear. And while it does not cover every thematic-role-based proposal ever made, the book is nevertheless to be recommended to anyone who has puzzled over the content of thematic roles. [Edwin Battistella, University of Alabama in Birmingham] Psychology of language: An introduction to sentence and discourse processes. By Murray Singer. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1990. Pages xi, 308. $24.95. Recent years have seen the emergence of an essentially interdisciplinary, cognitive-science approach to natural language processing, with some of the most fruitful work focusing on discourse structure and processing. Singer's book is intended as an introductory graduate textbook, though it is also suitable as a desk reference for the linguist, cognitive psychologist, or computer scientist with an interest in natural language processing. An introductory graduate textbook must accomplish several purposes: (i) familiarize students with key theoretical concepts; (ii) refer them to the fundamental literature in which those concepts are discussed; (iii) provide them with exemplars that teach them how to apply the concepts insightfully to the data; and (iv) inculcate a sense of relevance that enables students to read professional articles and evaluate their theoretical significance. S's book is probably above average by these standards. Key concepts are clearly if succinctly explained, fundamental articles are cited in each of the relevant disciplines, and examples are frequent and detailed enough to satisfy the most exacting linguist. The book's weaknesses are those endemic to any introductory text: it emphasizes consensus, spending more time summarizing established results than exploring open issues and controversies, and the passages which explain key concepts are often terse, so that the instructor may sometimes wish to assign source articles as background reading. Overall, the book appears to be a valuable introductory textbook for a course in psycholinguistics or discourse processing. It is divided into ten chapters, as follows: Ch. 1, 'Introduction'; Ch. 2, 'Language and meaning: Representing and remembering discourse'; Ch. 3, 'Syntax and parsing processes'; Ch. 4, The role of knowledge in language comprehension'; Ch. 5, 'Understanding coherent discourse'; Ch. 6, Theme'; Ch. 7, 'Inference processes'; Ch. 8, 'Understanding stories'; Ch. 9, 'Question answering and sentence verification'; and Ch. 10, 'Natural language understanding by computers—and people'. One of the noteworthy aspects of the book is its thorough integration of psycholinguistic data with the concepts of discourse analysis, including coherence, the givennew contract, thematic structure, and scripts. [Paul Deane, University of Central Florida.] An essay on grammar-parser relations. By Jan van de Koot. Dordrecht: Foris, 1990. Pp. xii, 152. Paper $24.50. In this monograph, K investigates the possible relations between grammars and parsers. Any theory of the mind that postulates separate