[PDF] A Matter Of Semantics eBook

Author : Abdul Staten
Publisher :
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 23,79 MB
Release : 2013-06
Category :
ISBN : 9781612962238

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A Matter of Semantics helps students learn that college is not only about the academics. Of course the academics are important - they're vital, in fact. But, those social, emotional, and psychological lessons that college students experience outside of the classroom end up accounting for 70-80% of what they actually learn. What's more, after financial hardships, students end up leaving college not because they are incapable of handling the academic and intellectual challenges of college life, but because they are incapable of handling the outside-of-the-classroom elements of college life. But, every student has the ability to succeed in college and A Matter of Semantics helps prepare students for the rigors of college by attesting to the importance of personal exploration and encouraging students to spend as much energy developing their personal selves as they spend developing their academic selves. This book also provides a distinct look into the life lessons the college experience teaches as well as strategies for navigating those lessons. In the end, the college experience becomes about each student, and the unique journey they take to create the success they wish for in college and in life. As for the title - the institution of higher education is unparalleled in its ability to provide young adults with opportunities to learn and grow in ways no other institution can offer; so as long as teenagers go on to college, wherever they decide to pursue their education will, in the end, become just a matter of semantics.

Author : Bryan R. Weaver
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 38,53 MB
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0198832621

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Semantics for Reasons is a book about what we mean when we talk about reasons. It not only brings together the theory of reasons and natural language semantics in original ways but also sketches out a litany of implications for metaethics and the philosophy of normativity. In their account of how the language of reasons works, Bryan R. Weaver and Kevin Scharp propose and defend a view called Question Under Discussion (QUD) Reasons Contextualism. They use this view to argue for a series of novel positions on the ontology of reasons, indexical facts, the reasons-to-be-rational debate, moral reasons, and the reasons-first approach.

Author : James R. Hurford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,23 MB
Release : 1983-04-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521289498

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Introduces the major elements of semantics in a simple, step-by-step fashion. Sections of explanation and examples are followed by practice exercises with answers and comment provided.

Author : Harry Halpin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 33,82 MB
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1461418852

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Social Semantics: The Search for Meaning on the Web provides a unique introduction to identity and reference theories of the World Wide Web, through the academic lens of philosophy of language and data-driven statistical models. The Semantic Web is a natural evolution of the Web, and this book covers the URL-based Web architecture and Semantic Web in detail. It has a robust empirical side which has an impact on industry. Social Semantics: The Search for Meaning on the Web discusses how the largest problem facing the Semantic Web is the problem of identity and reference, and how these are the results of a larger general theory of meaning. This book hypothesizes that statistical semantics can solve these problems, illustrated by case studies ranging from a pioneering study of tagging systems to using the Semantic Web to boost the results of commercial search engines. Social Semantics: The Search for Meaning on the Web targets practitioners working in the related fields of the semantic web, search engines, information retrieval, philosophers of language and more. Advanced-level students and researchers focusing on computer science will also find this book valuable as a secondary text or reference book.

Author : Ori Simchen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 47,59 MB
Release : 2017-02-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0192509993

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Semantics aims to describe the significance (or meaning) of linguistic expressions in a systematic way. Metasemantics, or foundational semantics, asks how expressions gain their significance in the first place - what makes it the case that expressions mean what they do. Metasemantics has recently been discussed extensively by philosophers of language, philosophers of mind, and philosophically minded linguists and psychologists. A large concern is semantic indeterminacy, the worry that there is no fact of the matter as to the semantic significance of our words. Ori Simchen offers a distinctly metasemantic strategy to counter this threat. Semantics, Metasemantics, Aboutness is the first book-length treatment of metasemantics and its relation to the thriving research program of truth-conditional semantics.

Author : Kathie Snow
Publisher :
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 47,16 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN :

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In this user-friendly book, parents learn revolutionary common sense techniques for raising successful children with disabilities. When we recognize that disability is a natural part of the human experience, new attitudes lead to new actions for successful lives at home, in school and in communities. When parents replace today's conventional wisdom with the common sense values and creative thinking detailed in this book, all children with disabilities (regardless of age or type of disability) can live the life of their dreams. Readers will learn how to define a child by his or her assets - instead of a disability-related "problem," and how to create new and improved partnerships with educators, health care professionals, family and friends

Author : Thomas Herbst
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 41,92 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110203677

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The book introduces the reader to the central areas of English linguistics. The main sections are: the English language and linguistics - sounds - meaning-carrying units - sentences: models of grammar - meaning - utterances - variation. Notably, the book is written from a foreign student's perspective of the English language, i.e. aspects relevant to foreign language teaching receive particular attention. A great deal of emphasis is put on the insights to be gained from the analysis of corpora, especially with respect to the idiomatic character of language (idiom principle, valency approach). In addition, the text offers basic facts about the history of the language and elaborates on the differences between British and American English. The author demonstrates that a linguistic fact can usually be described in more than one way. To this end, each section contains a chapter written for beginners providing a broad outline and introducing the basic terminology. The remaining chapters in each section highlight linguistic facts in more detail and give an idea of how particular theories account for them. The book can be used both from the first semester onwards and as perfect study aid for final B.A.-examinations.

Author : Peter Gärdenfors
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 44,56 MB
Release : 2014-01-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0262026783

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A novel cognitive theory of semantics that proposes that the meanings of words can be described in terms of geometric structures.

Author : Robert J. Glushko
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 743 pages
File Size : 42,34 MB
Release : 2014-08-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1491911719

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Note about this ebook: This ebook exploits many advanced capabilities with images, hypertext, and interactivity and is optimized for EPUB3-compliant book readers, especially Apple's iBooks and browser plugins. These features may not work on all ebook readers. We organize things. We organize information, information about things, and information about information. Organizing is a fundamental issue in many professional fields, but these fields have only limited agreement in how they approach problems of organizing and in what they seek as their solutions. The Discipline of Organizing synthesizes insights from library science, information science, computer science, cognitive science, systems analysis, business, and other disciplines to create an Organizing System for understanding organizing. This framework is robust and forward-looking, enabling effective sharing of insights and design patterns between disciplines that weren’t possible before. The Professional Edition includes new and revised content about the active resources of the "Internet of Things," and how the field of Information Architecture can be viewed as a subset of the discipline of organizing. You’ll find: 600 tagged endnotes that connect to one or more of the contributing disciplines Nearly 60 new pictures and illustrations Links to cross-references and external citations Interactive study guides to test on key points The Professional Edition is ideal for practitioners and as a primary or supplemental text for graduate courses on information organization, content and knowledge management, and digital collections. FOR INSTRUCTORS: Supplemental materials (lecture notes, assignments, exams, etc.) are available at http://disciplineoforganizing.org. FOR STUDENTS: Make sure this is the edition you want to buy. There's a newer one and maybe your instructor has adopted that one instead.

Author : Nick Riemer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 30,30 MB
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521851920

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An introduction to the study of meaning in language for undergraduate students.