Reference book indexes reviewed

PSoC3/5 Reference Book

The Reference Book

John Hawthorne and David Manley wrote an excellent book on the many issues surrounding the twin notions of reference and singular thought. The book is divided into two parts corresponding to two main objectives. In Part I, which is titled " Against Acquaintance " and includes Chapters 1-3, they present a first case in favour of what they call liberalism — the view according to which neither ref...

Visual Indexes, Objects, and Nonconceptual Reference

Not long ago I discovered that, although coming from a very different perspective, I had taken a position on a set of questions that philosophers had been worrying about for much of the past 30 or more years. My clandestine involvement in philosophical issues began when a computer science colleague and I were trying to build a model of geometrical reasoning that would draw a diagram and notice ...

Internationalized Back-of-the-Book Indexes for XSL Formatting Objects

The XSL recommendation and its commercial implementations have finally reached a point of maturity that allows for their use in generating production-quality printed technical documents. However, the XSL specification does not provide any built-in features specific to the production of back-of-the-book indexes. In addition, the current commercial tools do not provide any proprietary features fo...

Lippincott's Quick Reference Book for Nurses