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<P>Shortly before his death in 1988, Max Black brought together for this collection previously published major essays on ten intriguing questions concerning ordinary language, rational choice, and literature.</P><P>Individual chapters explore such fundamental problems as the puzzles posed by meaning and verification; what metaphor is and how metaphors work; the ambiguities and limits of rationality; the usefulness of decision theory to people who wish to make intelligent choices; some questions concerning Bayesian decision theory; the task of demystifying space; and the radical ambiguity of poetry.</P>

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Author

Black, Max

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801422300

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Humanities