Convenient and effective Sum & Substance: Criminal Law audio CD series presents the essentials of criminal law in a clear, succinct, time-saving format. It includes quick reference indexing, allowing you to quickly locate all topics in the recording, and informed exam tips to help maximize your performance. Topics addressed include: The theories of punishment, actus reus, mens rea, mistake of fact, and actual and proximate causation. It also addresses various defenses and criminal acts.
Samuel C. Rickless presents a novel interpretation of the thought of George Berkeley. In A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710) and Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous (1713), Berkeley argues for the astonishing view that physical objects (such as tables and chairs) are nothing but collections of ideas (idealism); that there is no such thing as material substance (immaterialism); that abstract ideas are impossible (anti-abstractionism); and that an idea can be like nothing but an idea (the likeness principle). It is a matter of great controversy what Berkeley's argument for idealism is and whether it succeeds.
In A Syntax of Substance, David Adger proposes a new approach to phrase structure that eschews functional heads and labels structures exocentrically. His proposal simultaneously simplifies the syntactic system and restricts the range of possible structures, ruling out the ubiquitous (remnant) roll-up derivations and forcing a separation of arguments from their apparent heads. This new system has a number of empirical consequences, which Adger explores in the domain of relational nominals across different language families, including Germanic, Romance, Celtic, Polynesian, and Semitic.
This is not an introduction to the subject of linguistic form, but a brief commentary on current views and terminologies. If it is possible to discover any aim common to all linguistic schools, this aim is the reduction, by terminological devices, of the fundamental asymmetry of linguistic systems. If there are phonemes, allophones and phonemic components, then there must also be morphemes, allomorphs and morphemic components. If there is a form and a substance of the expression, then there must also be a form and a substance of the content.
