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Addressing an issue that has puzzled the linguistics community for many years, this book offers a novel approach to the exceptional wide scope behaviour of indefinites. It is the first book explicitly dedicated to exceptional wide scope phenomena. Its unique approach offers an explanation for the fact that it is only a proper subset of the indefinites that shows this exceptional wide scope behaviour. The author draws a careful distinction between genuine and apparent scope readings, a distinction that is usually not taken care of and has thus led to certain confusions. In particular, it is argued that functional readings have to be kept strictly apart from non-functional ones and that all proposals that use functional mechanisms to explain the phenomena at hand face severe problems. The existing body of literature on the main issues of the book is thoroughly reviewed. This makes the book well suited as background literature for graduate seminars on those topics.

Lexicology. Semantics --- Linguistics --- linguïstiek --- semantiek --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Predicate (Logic) --- Scope (Linguistics) --- Quantificateurs (Linguistique) --- Prédicat (logique) --- Portée (Linguistique) --- Quantifiers. --- EPUB-LIV-FT LIVHUMAI SPRINGER-B

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During the last decade, argumentation has attracted growing attention as a means to elicit processes (linguistic, logical, dialogical, psychological, etc.) that can sustain or provoke reasoning and learning. Constituting an important dimension of daily life and of professional activities, argumentation plays a special role in democracies and is at the heart of philosophical reasoning and scientific inquiry. Argumentation, as such, requires specific intellectual and social skills. Hence, argumentation will have an increasing importance in education, both because it is an important competence that has to be learned, and because argumentation can be used to foster learning in philosophy, history, sciences and in many other domains. However, learning argumentation and learning by arguing, at school, still raise theoretical and methodological questions such as: How do learning processes develop in argumentation? How to design effective argumentative activities? How can the argumentative efforts of pupils can be sustained? What are the psychological issues involved when arguing with others? How to evaluate and analyze the learners' productions? Argumentation and Education answers these and other questions by providing both theoretical backgrounds, in psychology, education and theory of argumentation, and concrete examples of experiments and results in school contexts in a range of domains. It reports on existing innovative practices in education settings at various levels.

Aanleren -- Psychologie --- Apprentissage -- Aspects psychologiques --- Apprentissage -- Psychologie --- Apprentissage [Psychologie de l' ] --- Learning -- Psychological aspects --- Learning [Psychology of ] --- Leerpsychologie --- Leren -- Psychologie --- Psychologie de l'apprentissage --- Psychology of learning --- Education. --- Learning & Instruction. --- Education --- Reasoning --- Study and teaching --- Thought and thinking --- Logic --- Philosophy --- Aims and objectives

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The treatment of time in quantum mechanics is still an important and challenging open question in the foundation of the quantum theory. This book describes the problems, and the attempts and achievements in defining, formalizing and measuring different time quantities in quantum theory, such as the parametric (clock) time, tunneling times, decay times, dwell times, delay times, arrival times or jump times. This multi-authored book, written as an introductory guide for newcomers to the subject, as well as a useful source of information for the expert, covers many of the open questions. After the brief historical overview in the introduction, 12 contributions are devoted to conceptual and theoretical investigations as well as experimental issues in quantum-mechanical time measurements. This novel monograph should attract physicists as well as philosophers of science working in the foundations of quantum physics. For this revised second edition, all chapters have been updated and extended where appropriate. From the reviews of the first edition: "Beginning with a clear introduction to the perplexing issue of the nature of time in quantum mechanics, the reader then undertakes a stimulating excursion through a sequence of chapters written by leading researchers. Theory and experiment are nicely balanced, and extensive lists of references accompany each chapter. […] Furthermore, the book is enlightening from a sociological perspective to see how 'sides' of these controversies developed and later reconciled as unified approaches […]." The Physicist, 39/5 (2002).

Quantum theory. --- Time measurements. --- Physics. --- Natural philosophy --- Philosophy, Natural --- Time --- Quantum dynamics --- Quantum mechanics --- Quantum physics --- Measurement --- Quantum physics. --- Physical measurements. --- Measurement. --- Quantum Physics. --- Measurement Science and Instrumentation. --- Physical sciences --- Dynamics --- Physical measurements --- Vibration --- Clocks and watches --- Physics --- Mechanics --- Thermodynamics --- Quantum theory --- Time measurements --- Measurement   . --- Measuring --- Mensuration --- Mathematics --- Technology --- Metrology --- Measurements, Physical --- Mathematical physics