Semantics


Language in Thought and Action
Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics
Semantics
Semantics in Generative Grammar
The Tyranny of Words
Philosophical Investigations
People in Quandaries: The Semantics of Personal Adjustment
Manhood of Humanity: The Science and Art of Human Engineering (Classic Reprint)
Metaphors We Live By
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics)
Drive Yourself Sane : Using the Uncommon Sense of General Semantics
Analyzing meaning
Logic, Semantics, Metamathematics (English and Polish Edition)
An Introduction to Statistical Learning: with Applications in R (Springer Texts in Statistics)
Course in General Linguistics by Ferdinand de SaussureThe Language Instinct by Steven PinkerThe Study of Language by George YuleAn Introduction to Language by Victoria A. FromkinMetaphors We Live By by George Lakoff
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Amitav Ghosh
So to say that you don't believe in the "supernatural" is a contradiction in terms - because it means that you also don't believe in the "natural". Neither can exist without the other.' 'Oh come on', I said impatiently. 'That's just semantics'. 'Yes, you're right. But the whole world is made up of semantics and yours are those of the seventeenth century. Even though you think you are modern. ...more
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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