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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...

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George Ainslie ( 2001 ) Breakdown * of * Will . Cambridge : Cambridge University

* Breakdown* of*Will is presented as a model of decision making that is based on two interrelated phenomena, “hyperbolic discounting” and “intertemporal bargaining”. These are interesting phenomena, and I would have enjoyed reading about them in a theoretical review paper, but they did not make for a good book about decision making. The phenomena are not actually linked together into a coherent...