Author: Werner Abraham
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027260877
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Thetics and Categoricals do not belong to the categories of German grammar. Thetics were introduced in logic as impersonal and broad focus constructions. They left profound and extensive traces in the logic of the late 19th century. For the class of thetic propositions, the criterion of textual exclusion plays the major role, i.e. the absence of any common grounds and of any anaphorism and background. In the foreground are sentences with subject inversion, subject suppression and detopicalization. These and only these are suitable for text beginnings, jokes, stage advertisements and solipsistic exclamatives, thus speech acts without communicative goals – free expressives in the true sense of the word. The contributions in this volume not only guide the reader through the history of philosophical logic and distributions of impersonals in contrast to Kantian categorical sentences, but also the correspondences in Japanese and Chinese which, in contrast to German and English, sport specific morphological markers for thetics as opposed to categoricals.
Thetics and Categoricals
The Categorical Imperative
Author: Herbert James Paton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 283
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The Categorical Imperative
Author: H. J. Paton
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812210231
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
A classic exposition of Kant's ethical thought.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812210231
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
A classic exposition of Kant's ethical thought.
The Form of Practical Knowledge
Author: Stephen P. Engstrom
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674053796
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Immanuel Kant's claim that the categorical imperative of morality is based in practical reason has long been a source of puzzlement and doubt, even for sympathetic interpreters. In The Form of Practical Knowledge, Stephen Engstrom provides an illuminating new interpretation of the categorical imperative, arguing that we have exaggerated and misconceived Kant's break with tradition. By developing an account of practical knowledge that situates Kant's ethics within his broader epistemology, Engstrom’s work deepens and reshapes our understanding of Kantian ethics.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674053796
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Immanuel Kant's claim that the categorical imperative of morality is based in practical reason has long been a source of puzzlement and doubt, even for sympathetic interpreters. In The Form of Practical Knowledge, Stephen Engstrom provides an illuminating new interpretation of the categorical imperative, arguing that we have exaggerated and misconceived Kant's break with tradition. By developing an account of practical knowledge that situates Kant's ethics within his broader epistemology, Engstrom’s work deepens and reshapes our understanding of Kantian ethics.
The Categorical Imperative
Author: H. J. Paton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Modality in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics
Author: Werner Abraham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108861083
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
What do we mean when we say things like 'If only we knew what he was up to!' Clearly this is more than just a message, or a question to our addressee. We are expressing simultaneously that we don't know, and also that we wish to know. Several modes of encoding contribute to such modalities of expression: word order, subordinating subjunctions, sentences that are subordinated but nevertheless occur autonomously, and attitudinal discourse adverbs which, far beyond lexical adverbials of modality, allow the speaker and the listener to presuppose full agreement, partial agreement under presupposed conditions, or negotiation of common ground. This state of the art survey proposes a new model of modality, drawing on data from a variety of Germanic and Slavic languages to find out what is cross-linguistically universal about modality, and to argue that it is a constitutive part of human cognition.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108861083
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
What do we mean when we say things like 'If only we knew what he was up to!' Clearly this is more than just a message, or a question to our addressee. We are expressing simultaneously that we don't know, and also that we wish to know. Several modes of encoding contribute to such modalities of expression: word order, subordinating subjunctions, sentences that are subordinated but nevertheless occur autonomously, and attitudinal discourse adverbs which, far beyond lexical adverbials of modality, allow the speaker and the listener to presuppose full agreement, partial agreement under presupposed conditions, or negotiation of common ground. This state of the art survey proposes a new model of modality, drawing on data from a variety of Germanic and Slavic languages to find out what is cross-linguistically universal about modality, and to argue that it is a constitutive part of human cognition.
The Categorical Imperative
Author: Herbert James Paton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781001013923
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781001013923
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Mouton Classics
Author:
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110886006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
Mouton proudly presents this collection of articles considered to be representative of author achievements over the past quarter-century of its publishing history. A selection, of course, can do little more than make the readers wish for more; it is hoped that these volumes will do just that. The book contains essays on Phonology, Morphology, Formal Syntax, Functional Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Language and Cognition, Language Acquisition, Discourse and Text, Sociology of Language, Semiotics.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110886006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
Mouton proudly presents this collection of articles considered to be representative of author achievements over the past quarter-century of its publishing history. A selection, of course, can do little more than make the readers wish for more; it is hoped that these volumes will do just that. The book contains essays on Phonology, Morphology, Formal Syntax, Functional Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Language and Cognition, Language Acquisition, Discourse and Text, Sociology of Language, Semiotics.
The Categorical Imperative
Author: H. J. Paton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781436713993
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781436713993
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE
Author: HERBERT JAMES. PATON
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033031988
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033031988
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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