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1	Philosophical investigations more books like this by Ludwig Wittgenstein add to wishlist Incorporating significant editorial changes from earlier editions, the fourth edition of Ludwig Wittgenstein's "Philosophical Investigations" is the definitive en face German-English version of the most important work of 20th-century philosophy. The extensively revised English translation incorporates many hundreds of changes to Anscombe's ... see all copies from $13.99! new only from $21.84! \| first editions \| SVS
2	A rhetoric of motives more books like this by Kenneth Burke add to wishlist As critic, Kenneth Burke's preoccupations were at the beginning purely aesthetic and literary; but after "Counter-Statement" (1931), he began to discriminate a 'rhetorical' or persuasive component in literature, and thereupon became a philosopher of language and human conduct. In "A Grammar of Motives" (1945) and "A Rhetoric of Motives" (1950), ... see all copies from $12.99! new only from $33.54! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics more books like this by Alfred Korzybski add to wishlist see all copies from $5.00! new only from $99.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Logic of sense more books like this by Professor Gilles Deleuze add to wishlist Since its first publication, Logic of Sense has become a famous work of philosophical criticism, Working from Stoic philosophy to Lewis Carroll's literary and logical paradoxes and on to psychoanalysis, Deleuze seeks to determine the status of meaning and meaninglessness. Deleuze's exploration takes the reader through a series of inquiries with ... see all copies from $11.50! new only from $20.42! \| first editions \| SVS
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6	The Rediscovery of Meaning and Other Essays more books like this by Owen Barfield add to wishlist "Owen Barfield has unusual ideas about human nature and reality.. Now this seasoned British thinker.offers a collection of [essays] that reflects the entire range of his interests, including the philosophy of science, physics, biology, psychology, metaphysics, aesthetics, literature, linguistics, and religion.. He is a prophet of the New ... see all copies from $18.00! new only from $21.91! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Talking Right: How Conservatives Turned Liberalism Into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-Reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show more books like this by Geoff Nunberg add to wishlist This is a captivating, witty story of the 'Great Re-labelling' of American language and thought from a master linguist, broadcaster and popular intellectual. Modern linguistics has become a leading edge of the political fight, and in America, the right is winning the (re) presentation battle time after time. The Republican Party has become harder, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Fictional Worlds more books like this by Thomas G Pavel add to wishlist Creators of fiction demand that we venture into alien spaces, into the worlds of Antigone, Don Quixote, Faust, Sherlock Holmes. Created worlds may resemble the actual world, but they can just as easily be deemed incomplete, precarious, or irrelevant. Why, then, does fiction continue to pull us in and, more interesting perhaps, how? In this ... see all copies from $23.98! new only from $23.98! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Dehumanizing the Vulnerable: When Word Games Take Lives more books like this by William Brennan add to wishlist Shockingly relevant today, this hard-hitting study shows how dehumanizing language was and is being used to justify violent acts against vulnerable peoples--past and present--including the unborn, the elderly, women, Jews, and victims of Soviet tyranny. Dr. Brennan's argument focuses on the plight of today's unwanted, before and after birth and in ... see all copies from $2.74! new only from $51.45! \| first editions
10	The Art of Awareness: A Handbook on Epistemics and General Semantics more books like this by Joseph Samuel Bois add to wishlist see all copies from $3.24! new only from $58.00! \| SVS
11	Insights for the Age of Aquarius more books like this by Gina Cerminara, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. add to wishlist General semantics reveals ambiguities in the Bible. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.81! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12	The art of awareness; a textbook on general semantics and epistemics more books like this by Joseph Samuel Bois add to wishlist see all copies from $3.19! first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Formal Semantics and Pragmatics for Natural Language Querying more books like this by James Clifford add to wishlist This book discusses the connection between two areas of semantics, namely the semantics of databases and the semantics of natural language, and links them via a common view of the semantics of time. It is argued that a coherent theory of the semantics of time is an essential ingredient for the success of efforts to incorporate more 'real world' ... see all copies from $11.45! new only from $41.52! \| SVS
14 view cover	Questions and Answers in Embedded Contexts more books like this by Utpal Lahiri add to wishlist Linguists (and others) have realised for some time that predicates of the 'know' and 'wonder' classes behave differently, in semantic terms, with respect to their interrogative complements, but have not so far fully understood how or why. This book seeks to explore and to provide solutions to this and to related problems in explaining the meaning ... see all copies from $21.02! new only from $57.31! \| SVS
15 view cover	Long Words Bother Me more books like this by Tom Burton, Michael Atchison (Illustrator) add to wishlist 'Long words bother me' confessed Winnie the Pooh, but the fact is that the short ones are just as problematic. This book is about the craziness of words, and how they can change their meanings in the most unpredictable ways over time. Synonyms can become antonyms and words that sound different can turn into homonyms. They can die for no apparent ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
16	Semantics of natural language more books like this by Donald Davidson, Gilbert Harman (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $27.20!
17 view cover	Cultural Semiosis: Tracing the Signifier more books like this by Hugh J Silverman (Editor) add to wishlist The Super Bowl is "the" annual American rite. Around the country, friends gather together around the television with beer and potato chips and gear up for the game of the season. This text integrates newspaper clips, quotes from "players" both on and off the field, NFL rules and regulations, photographers' first-person accounts of their ... see all copies from $14.50! new only from $22.00! \| first editions
18	The labyrinth of language more books like this by Max Black add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
19	Mathsemantics: 2making Numbers Talk Sense more books like this by Edward MacNeal add to wishlist Entertaining, anecdotal, and immensely practical, this book demonstrates that math can't be divorced from meaning, that numbers have inherent semantic content that makes them much easier to handle. A sensible and novel solution to the math block that afflicts our society today. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.40! \| first editions
20	Semantics: An Interdisciplinary Reader in Philosophy, Linguistics and Psychology more books like this by Danny D Steinberg, Leon A Jakobovits add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
21 view cover	Developing Sanity in Human Affairs more books like this by Susan Presby Kodish (Editor), Robert P Holston (Editor) add to wishlist General semantics, developed by Alfred Korzybski, is concerned with how humans can learn to evaluate and act more responsibly in conducting their individual and social lives. The chapters in this collection deal with these issues in education and counseling, social and cultural areas, critical thinking, communications, humanism, and ethics. ... see all copies from $11.95! new only from $11.95! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Comparative Metric Semantics of Programming Languages, Nondeterminism and Recursion more books like this by Frank Van Breugel, Franck Van Breugel, Franck Van Breugel add to wishlist This is a book in theoretical computer science that explores the semantics of programming languages with topological methods. Aimed at research workers and advanced graduate students in computer science, the book presents an important contribution to the theory of programming languages ami the semantics that underlie their construction. see all copies from $4.48! new only from $4.99! \| first editions \| SVS
23	Explanation and Meaning: An Introduction to Philosophy more books like this by Daniel M Taylor add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
24	Language Habits in Human Affairs: An Introduction to General Semantics more books like this by Irving J Lee add to wishlist see all copies from $2.75! new only from $70.21! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25	Formal semantics and logic more books like this by Bas C. Van Fraassen add to wishlist see all copies from $12.50! first editions

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