Tag: Kinds

Free Download Different Kinds of Specificity Across Languages By Cornelia Ebert, Stefan Hinterwimmer (auth.), Cornelia Ebert, Stefan Hinterwimmer (eds.)
2013 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 9400753098 | PDF | 3 MB
This anthology of papers analyzes a range of specificity markers found in natural languages. It reflects the fact that despite intensive research into these markers, the vast differences between the markers across languages and even within single languages have been less acknowledged. Commonly regarded specific indefinites are by no means a homogenous class, and so this volume fills a gap in our understanding of the semantics and pragmatics of indefinites.The papers explore differences and similarities among these specificity markers, concentrating on the following issues: whether specificity is a purely semantic or also a pragmatic notion; whether the contribution of specificity markers is located on the level of the at-issue content; whether some kind of speaker-listener asymmetry concerning the identification of the referent is involved; and the behavioral scope of these indefinites in the context of other quantifiers, negation, attitude verbs, and intensional/modal operators.

Free Download Different Kinds of Minds: A Guide to Your Brain by Temple Grandin
English | November 30th, 2023 | ISBN: 0593352874 | 240 pages | True EPUB | 5.03 MB
Young readers’ edition of instant New York Times bestseller Visual Thinking.

Free Download Compilation, "All Kinds of Mothers"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1629727474 | EPUB | pages: 160 | 3.9 mb
In this thoughtful collection, dozens of Latter-day Saint women across generations share their gospel insights and the occasional contradictions found in everyday motherhood. Perfect for all women in whatever role they occupy, All Kinds of Mothers examines motherhood from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences, reminding us that there are countless ways to fulfill the divine calling of motherhood. Through essays, short messages, and quotes from well-known favorites like Chieko Okazaki and Patricia T. Holland to newer voices such as Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye and Brooke Romney, this book explores what motherhood means in all of its facets-from comfort to hardship, sorrow to happiness, the mundane to the divine, and everything in between.

Free Download Daniel C. Dennett, Daniel Henning (Narrator), "Kinds of Minds: Toward an Understanding of Consciousness"
English | ASIN: B07RMMLJVP | 2019 | M4B@128 kbps | ~06:21:00 | 347 MB
Combining ideas from philosophy, artificial intelligence, and neurobiology, Daniel Dennett leads the listener on a fascinating journey of inquiry, exploring such intriguing possibilities as: Can any of us really know what is going on in someone else’s mind? What distinguishes the human mind from the minds of animals, especially those capable of complex behavior? If such animals, for instance, were magically given the power of language, would their communities evolve an intelligence as subtly discriminating as ours? Will robots, once they have been endowed with sensory systems like those that provide us with experience, ever exhibit the particular traits long thought to distinguish the human mind, including the ability to think about thinking?
Dennett addresses these questions from an evolutionary perspective. Beginning with the macromolecules of DNA and RNA, the author shows how, step-by-step, animal life moved from the simple ability to respond to frequently recurring environmental conditions to much more powerful ways of beating the odds, ways of using patterns of past experience to predict the future in never-before-encountered situations. Whether talking about robots whose video-camera "eyes" give us the powerful illusion that "there is somebody in there" or asking us to consider whether spiders are just tiny robots mindlessly spinning their webs of elegant design, Dennett is a master at finding and posing questions sure to stimulate and even disturb.

Free Download Stewart Umphrey, "Natural Kinds and Genesis: The Classification of Material Entities"
English | ISBN: 1498531415 | 2016 | 186 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
In Natural Kinds and Genesis: The Classification of Material Entities, Stewart Umphrey raises and answers two questions: What is it to be a natural kind? And are there in fact any natural kinds?