The philosophy of symbolic forms
by Cassirer, Ernst, Manheim, Ralph, Hendel, Charles William
fromYale Paperbound
The philosophy of symbolic forms
by Cassirer, Ernst, Manheim, Ralph, Hendel, Charles William
fromYale Paperbound
The Symbolic Forms has long been considered the greatest of Cassirerʹs works. Into it he poured all the resources of his vast learning about language and myth, religion, art, and science -- the various creative symbolizing activities and constructions through which man has expre…
This book is about the limits of machine translation. It is widely recognized that machine translation systems do much better on domain-specific controlled-language texts (domain texts for short) than on dynamic general-language texts (general texts for short). The authors explo…
"One of the most important and influential philosophers of the last thirty years, John Searle has been concerned throughout his career with a single overarching question: How can we have a unified and theoretically satisfactory account of ourselves and of our relations to other …
"One of the most important and influential philosophers of the last thirty years, John Searle has been concerned throughout his career with a single overarching question: How can we have a unified and theoretically satisfactory account of ourselves and of our relations to other …
Austere and uncompromising, the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein had no use for the avant-garde art works of his own time. He refused to formulate an aesthetic, declaring that one can no more define the "beautiful" than determine "what sort of coffee tastes good." And yet many of…