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The Syntactic Process
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The Syntactic Process

In this book Mark Steedman argues that the surface syntax of natural languages maps spoken and written forms directly to a compositional semantic representation that includes predicate-argument structure, quantification, and information structure without constructing any intervening structural representation.
 
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Tags: structure, representation, quantification, predicate-argument, includes
Quantification: Transcending Beyond Frege's Boundaries : A Case Study in Transcendental-Metaphysical Logic (Critical Studies in German Idealism)
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Quantification: Transcending Beyond Frege's Boundaries : A Case Study in Transcendental-Metaphysical Logic (Critical Studies in German Idealism)

In his attempt to give an answer to the question of what constitutes real knowledge, Kant steers a middle course between empiricism and rationalism. True "knowledge" refers to a given empirical reality, but "true" knowledge has to be understood as necessary as well, and so consequently, must be a priori. Both demands can only be reconciled if synthetic a priori judgments are possible. To ground this possibility, Kant develops his transcendental logic.
 
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Tags: knowledge, priori, logic, Quantification, Transcending
Trust in Numbers
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Trust in NumbersTheodore M. Porter, "Trust in Numbers"

Princeton University Press 1995
ISBN 0691037760
1 MB
325 pages
This investigation of the overwhelming appeal of quantification in the modern world discusses the development of cultural meanings of objectivity over two centuries. How are we to account for the current prestige and power of quantitative methods? The usual answer is that quantification is seen as desirable in social and economic investigation as a result of its successes in the study of nature. Theodore Porter is not content with this. Why should the kind of success achieved in the study of stars, molecules, or cells be an attractive model for research on human societies? he asks. And, indeed, how should we understand the pervasiveness of quantification in the sciences of nature? In his view, we should look in the reverse direction: comprehending the attractions of quantification in business, government, and social research will teach us something new about its role in psychology, physics, and medicine.
 
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Tags: quantification, should, Theodore, social, research