Francis Jeffry Pelletier has been a joint professor of philosophy, linguistics, and computing science, as well as a Canada Research Chair in cognitive science. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society (Canada). Notable publications include Mass Terms: Some Philosophical Problems (editor, 1979) and The Generic Book (co-edited with Gregory Carlson, 1995).
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Télécharger le livre : Linguistic Relativity
Francis Jeffry Pelletier , Ryan M. Nefdt
Linguistic Relativity
The concept of linguistic relativity (or Whorfianism) has its roots in the linguistic anthropology of Edward Sapir and his student Benjamin Whorf in the early twentieth century. However, questions over the relationship between natural language and human cognition go...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-05-23

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Télécharger le livre : Logic: A History of its Central Concepts
Francis Jeffry Pelletier , Dov M. Gabbay , John Woods
Logic: A History of its Central Concepts
The Handbook of the History of Logic is a multi-volume research instrument that brings to the development of logic the best in modern techniques of historical and interpretative scholarship. It is the first work in English in which the history of logic is presented so...
Editeur : North Holland
Parution : 2012-12-31

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Télécharger le livre : Kinds, Things, and Stuff
Francis Jeffry Pelletier
Kinds, Things, and Stuff
A generic statement is a type of generalization that is made by asserting that a "kind" has a certain property. For example we might hear that marshmallows are sweet. Here, we are talking about the "kind" marshmallow and assert that individual instances of this kind...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2009-12-03

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