Quiddities : an intermittently philosophical dictionary
Moving from A (alphabet) to Z (zero), Quiddities roams through more than eighty topics, each providing a full measure of piquant thought, wordplay, and wisdom, couched in easy and elegant prose.
eBook, English, 1987
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1987
dictionaries
1 online resource (249 pages)
9780674042438, 9780674743526, 0674042433, 0674743520
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Preface
Contents
Alphabet
Altruism
Anomaly
Artificial Languages
Atoms
Beauty
Belief
Classes versus Properties
Classes versus Sets
Communication
Complex Numbers
Consonant Clusters
Constructivism
Copula
Creation
Decimals and Dimidials
Definition
Discreteness
Etymology
Euphemism
Excluded Middle
Extravagance
Fermat�s Last Theorem
Formalism
Freedom
Free Will
Functions
Future
Gambling
Gender
GÜdel�s Theorem
Ideas
Identity IdiotismsImpredicativity
Infinite Numbers
Inflection
Information
Kinship of Words
Knowledge
Language Drift
Language Reform
Latin Pronunciation
Lines
Longitude and Latitude
Marks
Mathematosis
Meaning
Mind versus Body
Misling
Natural Numbers
Necessity
Negation
Paradoxes
Phonemes
Plurals
Predicate Logic
Prediction
Prefixes
Prizes
Pronunciation
Real Numbers
Recursion
Redundancy
Reference, Reification
Rhetoric
Semantic Switch Senses of WordsSingular Terms
Space-Time
Syntax
Things
Tolerance
Trinity
Truth
Type versus Token
Units
Universal Library
Universals
Usage and Abusage
Use versus Mention
Variables
Zero
Index
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
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