Models and Metaphors : : Studies in Language and Philosophy / / Max Black.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Black, Max,
• MitwirkendeR: Black, Max,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1962
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (267 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; I. Language and Reality --; II. Explanations of Meaning --; III. Metaphor --; IV. Presupposition and Implication --; V. Necessary Statements and Rules --; VI. The Analysis of Rules --; VII. Possibility --; VIII. Making Something Happen --; IX. Can the Effect Precede the Cause? --; X. The "Direction” of Time --; XI. Can Induction Be Vindicated? --; XII. Self-supporting Inductive Arguments --; XIII. Models and Archetypes --; XIV. Linguistic Relativity: The Views of Benjamin Lee Whorf --; Additional Notes and References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501741326; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501741326
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Max Black.

Although the range is wide (philosophy of language, logic, philosophy of science) in this collection of essays, there is a certain unity of treatment arising from the author's steady interest in using "linguistic analysis" to cast some new light on old problems, such as the nature of logic, causation, and induction.