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1	Philosophical Investigations: The German Text, with a Revised English Translation more books like this by Ludwig Wittgenstein, G E M Anscombe $20.15 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations presents his own distillation of two decades of intense work on the philosophies of mind, language and meaning. When first published in 1953, it immediately entered the center of philosophical debate, and achieved a classic status it has retained ever since. This revised German-English edition is ... see all copies from $20.15! new only from $22.46! \| first editions
2	A rhetoric of motives more books like this by Kenneth Burke $11.75 (used softcover, see detail)* 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	Logic, Language, and Meaning, Volume 1: Introduction to Logic more books like this by L T F Gamut, Babette Greiner (Translator), Michael Morreau (Translator) $23.49 (new softcover, see detail) add to wishlist The Dutch not only have what must be the greatest number of linguists per capita in the world, they also have a very long and rich tradition of combining linguistics, logic, and philosophy of language. So it should not be a surprise that it is an interdisciplinary collaboration of Dutch scholars that has produced the first comprehensive ... see all copies from $6.33! new only from $23.49! \| first editions
4	Tractatus Logico Philosophicus more books like this by Ludwig Wittgenstein $4.00 (new softcover, see detail) add to wishlist In his proposal of the solution to most philosophic problems by means of a critical method of linguistic analysis, Wittgenstein sets the stage for the development of logical positivism. Introduction by Bertrand Russell. see all copies from $3.70! new only from $4.00! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Philosophical investigations more books like this by Ludwig Wittgenstein $20.00 (used hardcover, see detail)* 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 $23.65! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language more books like this by John R Searle $23.62 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist Written in an outstandingly clear and lively style, it provokes its readers to rethink issues they may have regarded as long since settled. see all copies from $17.95! new only from $32.01! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Ontological Relativity: And Other Essays more books like this by Professor W V Quine $7.90 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist Intended to clarify the meaning of the philosophical doctrines propounded by W. V. Quine in "Word and Objects," the essays included herein are intimately related and concern themselves with three philosophical preoccupations: the nature of meaning, the meaning of existence and the nature of natural knowledge. see all copies from $7.90! new only from $35.65! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Word and object. more books like this by W. V. Quine $17.40 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist Language consists of dispositions, socially instilled, to respond observably to socially observable stimuli. Such is the point of view from which a noted philosopher and logician examines the notion of meaning and the linguistic mechanisms of objective reference. In the course of the discussion, Professor Quine pinpoints the difficulties involved ... see all copies from $14.32! new only from $24.38! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Meaning and Necessity: A Study in Semantics and Modal Logic more books like this by Rudolf Carnap $10.00 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist This book is valuable as expounding in full a theory of meaning that has its roots in the work of Frege and has been of the widest influence...The chief virtue of the book is its systematic character. From Frege to Quine most philosophical logicians have restricted themselves by piecemeal and local assaults on the problems involved. The book is ... see all copies from $5.63! new only from $29.00! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The measurement of meaning more books like this by Charles Egerton Osgood $12.90 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.66! \| SVS
11 view cover	Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Wittgenstein and the Philosophical Investigations more books like this by Marie McGinn, Ludwig Wittgenstein $7.40 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist The Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks painlessly introduce students to the classic works of philosophy. Each GuideBook considers a major philosopher and a key area of their philosophy by focusing on an important text - situating the philosopher and the work in an historical context, considering the text in question and assessing the philosopher's ... see all copies from $7.40! new only from $15.95! \| SVS
12 view cover	The Rhetoric of Religion more books like this by Kenneth Burke $13.50 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist see all copies from $13.50! new only from $26.71! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Philosophical remarks more books like this by Ludwig Wittgenstein $12.50 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist When in May 1930, the Council of Trinity College, Cambridge, had to decide whether to renew Wittgenstein's research grant, it turned to Bertrand Russell for an assessment of the work Wittgenstein had been doing over the past year. His verdict: "The theories contained in this new work... are novel, very original and indubitably important. Whether ... see all copies from $12.50! new only from $30.00! \| first editions \| SVS
14	Philosophy of language more books like this by William P. Alston $9.14 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
15 view cover	The Nature of Science in Science Education: Rationales and Strategies more books like this by William F McComas $12.12 (new softcover, see detail) add to wishlist "The Nature of Science in Science Education: Rationales and Strategies" is the first book to blend a justification for the inclusion of the history and philosophy of science in science teaching with methods by which this vital content can be shared with a variety of learners. This book provides a definition of the elements of the nature of science ... see all copies from $20.03! new only from $20.03! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Meaning and Grammar, 2nd Edition: An Introduction to Semantics more books like this by Gennaro Chierchia, Sally McConnell-Ginet $21.98 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist This self-contained introduction to natural language semantics addresses the major theoretical questions in the field. The authors introduce the systematic study of linguistic meaning through a sequence of formal tools and their linguistic applications. Starting with propositional connectives and truth conditions, the book moves to quantification ... see all copies from $14.69! new only from $53.00!
17 view cover	Logic, Semantics, Metamathematics: Papers from 1923 to 1938 more books like this by Alfred Tarski $44.93 (new hardcover, see detail) add to wishlist see all copies from $25.00! new only from $46.40! \| first editions
18	Signs more books like this by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Richard C. McCleary (Translator) $14.00 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist see all copies from $8.35! first editions
19 view cover	Introduction to Montague Semantics more books like this by David R Dowty, Robert E Wall, Stanley Peters $13.91 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist see all copies from $13.85! new only from $13.86! \| SVS
20	Thinking, language, and experience more books like this by Hector-Neri Castañeda $2.00 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist see all copies from $2.00! new only from $3.80! \| first editions
21 view cover	Meaning and Mental Representation more books like this by Umberto Eco (Editor), Patrizia Violi (Editor), Marco Santambrogio (Editor) $3.12 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist This is an important collection of original essays by well-known scholars debating the questions of logical versus psychologically-based interpretations of language. see all copies from $3.12! new only from $16.80! \| SVS
22 view cover	Wittgenstein: Understanding and Meaning Part One: Essays more books like this by G P Baker, P M S Hacker $51.52 (new hardcover, see detail) add to wishlist This is a new edition of the first volume of G.P.Baker and P.M.S. Hacker's definitive reference work on Wittgenstein's "Philosophical Investigations". This is a new edition of the first volume of the monumental four-volume "Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations". This title takes into account much material that was unavailable ... see all copies from $41.33! new only from $41.33! \| first editions
23 view cover	Logic of sense more books like this by Professor Gilles Deleuze $12.95 (used softcover, see detail)* 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 $21.71! \| first editions
24	Readings in the Philosophy of Language, more books like this by Jay F Rosenberg $7.00 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist see all copies from $3.68! first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Thought and World: An Austere Portrayal of Truth, Reference, and Semantic Correspondence more books like this by Christopher S Hill, Ernest Sosa (Editor), Jonathan Dancy (Editor) $2.99 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist There is an important family of semantic notions that we apply to thoughts and to the conceptual constituents of thoughts - as when we say that the thought that the Universe is expanding is true. Thought and World presents a theory of the content of such notions. The theory is largely deflationary in spirit, in the sense that it represents a broad ... see all copies from $2.32! new only from $2.32! \| first editions \| SVS

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