Cambridge University Library Islamic Manuscript Collection. Origins and Content

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François Recanati , Literal Meaning , Cambridge : Cambridge University

Contrary to a certain traditional conception dating back at least to Locke, everyday linguistic communication is not a simple matter of putting one's thoughts into words for one's audience to put back into thoughts. This naive " code model " misses the fact that what a speaker means in uttering a sentence can be distinct in various ways from what the sentence means. She might not mean what she ...

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We survey briefly recent developments in geometric integration and numerical methods on manifolds. The underlying philosophy is that numerical methods should, whenever practicable, recover correctly known qualitative behaviour of the underlying differential system. Classical numerical methods retain invariants very poorly indeed, and this justifies the recent introduction of a new breed of disc...

Assessing Reading . ( 2000 ) . J . Charles Alderson . Cambridge : Cambridge University

The real question we are asking when we look at assessing reading is: What distinguishes a good reader from a poor reader? Implicit in this question is an even more fundamental question: What are we doing when we read? Assessment is an attempt to answer the first question, but if we cannot at least try to answer the second, we do not know what we are assessing, and any measure or description of...

A rediscovery of Alfred Russel Wallace ’ s fern collection from Borneo at the Cambridge University Herbarium

Alfred Russel Wallace spent eight years in South-East Asia studying the biodiversity of the region in the course of visits to Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. His collections, extensively and scrupulously acquired in the Malay Archipelago, include zoological specimens such as insects, birds, reptiles and mammals. In addition, Wallace collected botanical and ethnological material. The bulk of ...