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Religion. --- Hyperbole. --- Figures of speech --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology

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Aboutness has been studied from any number of angles. Brentano made it the defining feature of the mental. Phenomenologists try to pin down the aboutness-features of particular mental states. Materialists sometimes claim to have grounded aboutness in natural regularities. Attempts have even been made, in library science and information theory, to operationalize the notion. But it has played no real role in philosophical semantics. This is surprising; sentences have aboutness-properties if anything does. Aboutness is the first book to examine through a philosophical lens the role of subject matter in meaning. A long-standing tradition sees meaning as truth-conditions, to be specified by listing the scenarios in which a sentence is true. Nothing is said about the principle of selection--about what in a scenario gets it onto the list. Subject matter is the missing link here. A sentence is true because of how matters stand where its subject matter is concerned. Stephen Yablo maintains that this is not just a feature of subject matter, but its essence. One indicates what a sentence is about by mapping out logical space according to its changing ways of being true or false. The notion of content that results--directed content--is brought to bear on a range of philosophical topics, including ontology, verisimilitude, knowledge, loose talk, assertive content, and philosophical methodology. Written by one of today's leading philosophers, Aboutness represents a major advance in semantics and the philosophy of language.

Semantics (Philosophy) --- Definition (Philosophy) --- Meaning (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Definability --- Definition (Logic) --- Undefinability --- Intension (Philosophy) --- Logical semantics --- Semantics (Logic) --- Semeiotics --- Significs --- Syntactics --- Unified science --- Language and languages --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Logical positivism --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Philosophy, Modern --- Semiotics --- Signs and symbols --- Symbolism --- Analysis (Philosophy) --- Alfred Tarski. --- Carnap. --- David Lewis. --- Gilbert Ryle. --- Nelson Goodman. --- William James. --- aboutness. --- alethic extrapolation. --- assertive content. --- closure violations. --- confirmation theory. --- content-part. --- content-parts. --- contextualism. --- counterfactualism. --- epistemic modality. --- false statements. --- finite beings. --- hyperbole. --- inductive extrapolation. --- infinity. --- intrinsic variation. --- knowledge. --- logical substraction. --- logical subtraction. --- logician. --- loose talk. --- meaning. --- metaontoloy. --- metaphysics. --- mysterian. --- number fictionalism. --- ontology. --- partial truth. --- philosophical methodology. --- philosophy of language. --- piggybacking. --- pivoting. --- preferences. --- projective extrapolation. --- quantifiers. --- recursive model. --- reductive model. --- selection. --- semantic content. --- semantics. --- sentence. --- subject matter. --- surplus content. --- truth-conditions. --- truth-value. --- truth. --- truthmakers. --- type 4 extrapolation. --- unexpected content. --- upward difference transmission. --- verisimilitude. --- versimilitude.

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Arguing that the comic is a quality of literary works of art in other forms as well as comedy, George McFadden finds its essence in the maintenance of some literary feature--a situation, a character--as itself despite threats to alter it.Originally published in 1982.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Comique. --- Comic, The. --- Ludicrous, The --- Ridiculous, The --- Comedy --- Wit and humor --- Absalom and Achitophel. --- Absurdity. --- Aeschylus. --- Ancient Greek comedy. --- Anguish. --- Antinomianism. --- Antithesis. --- Aphorism. --- Apollonian and Dionysian. --- Archetype. --- Aristophanes. --- Aristotle. --- Arthur Schopenhauer. --- Bildungsroman. --- Blaise Cendrars. --- Busybody. --- Classicism. --- Comedy. --- Comic book. --- Consciousness. --- Criticism. --- Cynthia's Revels. --- Donald Barthelme. --- Edmund Husserl. --- Envy. --- Erudition. --- Essay. --- Ethos. --- Existentialism. --- Fabliau. --- Farce. --- Fiction. --- Franz Kafka. --- François Rabelais. --- Gallows humor. --- Genre. --- Good and evil. --- Henri Bergson. --- Hubris. --- Humour. --- Hyperbole. --- Irony. --- Jacques Derrida. --- John Hawkes (novelist). --- Joke. --- Last man. --- Laughter. --- Leveling (philosophy). --- Libido. --- Literary theory. --- Literature. --- Malapropism. --- Max Brod. --- Meanness. --- Melange (fictional drug). --- Metonymy. --- Miasma (Greek mythology). --- Modernity. --- Monomania. --- Narcissism. --- Obscenity. --- Occam's razor. --- Old Comedy. --- Parody. --- Philosophical language. --- Pity. --- Plautus. --- Poetaster. --- Political satire. --- Reality principle. --- Reality. --- Ridicule. --- Roland Barthes. --- Romanticism. --- Satire. --- Schadenfreude. --- Self-Reliance. --- Self-deception. --- Self-interest. --- Sentimentality. --- Seriousness. --- Sexual Desire (book). --- Sick comedy. --- Superiority (short story). --- Søren Kierkegaard. --- Terence. --- The Birth of Tragedy. --- The Man of Mode. --- The Praise of Folly. --- The Realist. --- Thomas Kuhn. --- Thought. --- Thus Spoke Zarathustra. --- Tragedy. --- Tragic hero. --- Tragicomedy. --- Uriah Heep. --- Utilitarianism. --- William Shakespeare. --- Writing.

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Although Renaissance scholars generally agree that Della Porta was the finest comic playwright of his generation in Italy, no detailed analysis of these plays and of their considerable influence outside Italy has previously appeared. One of the most famous men of his time in the field of scientific investigation, Della Porta wrote plays for relaxation and, on occasion, to camouflage controversial aspects of his scientific research from the Inquisitions. Today his works in science are largely forgotten and his right to fame rests on the plays. This book brings together the available facts of Della Porta's rich and often mysterious life and closely examines his dramatic works as part of the Italian literary scene in late Renaissance. Originally published in 1965.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama. --- Porta, Giambattista della, --- Della Porta, Giambattista, --- Porta, Iean Baptiste, --- Porta, J. B. --- Porta, Jean-Batiste, --- Porta, Ioannes Baptista, --- Porta, Joannes Baptista, --- Porta, Iogann Baptist della, --- Porta, Giovanni Battista della, --- Porta, Gio. Battista dalla --- Porta, Io. Baptista --- Porta, Giovanbattista della, --- Porta, Johann Baptista, --- Porta, Giovambattista dalla, --- Porta, John Baptista, --- Porta, G. B. della --- Porta, Giovan Battista della, --- Della Porta, Giovan Battista, --- Dramatists, Italian --- Accademia dei Lincei. --- Albumazar. --- Alessandro Piccolomini. --- Ars Poetica (Horace). --- Asinaria. --- Astolfo. --- Astrology. --- Aulularia. --- Bacchides (play). --- Bartolomeo. --- Benedetto Croce. --- Benedetto. --- Caetani. --- Caricature. --- Carlo Goldoni. --- Classicism. --- Commedia dell'arte. --- Counter-Reformation. --- Divine Comedy. --- Drama. --- Duke of Florence. --- Farce. --- Federico Cesi. --- Francesco Andreini. --- Francesco D'Isa. --- Francis Bacon (artist). --- François Rabelais. --- G. (novel). --- Genre. --- Giambattista Basile. --- Giambattista Marino. --- Giambattista della Porta. --- Giordano Bruno. --- Giovanni Battista. --- Giovanni Francesco Sagredo. --- Girolamo. --- Hyperbole. --- Ibid (short story). --- Ignoramus. --- Il pastor fido. --- In Town (musical). --- Innamorati. --- James Shirley. --- La Spagna. --- La Strada. --- Lazzi. --- Lingua (play). --- Literature. --- Lorenzino de' Medici. --- Luigi Groto. --- Luigi d'Este. --- Massimo. --- Melodrama. --- Melodramma. --- Menaechmi. --- Miles Gloriosus (play). --- Necromancy. --- Neoclassicism. --- Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc. --- Novella. --- Orazio. --- Orbecche. --- Orlando Furioso. --- Ottava rima. --- Parody. --- Pedant. --- Physiognomy. --- Plautus. --- Playwright. --- Poenulus. --- Pompeo. --- Pomponio Torelli. --- Potboiler. --- Prose. --- Pulcinella. --- Pun. --- Renaissance. --- Romanticism. --- Rudens (play). --- Ruggiero (character). --- S. (Dorst novel). --- Samson Agonistes. --- Sarabande. --- Satire. --- Scipione. --- Sententiae. --- Soliloquy. --- Sophocles. --- Subplot. --- Tartaglia (commedia dell'arte). --- Terence. --- The Parliament of Love. --- The Valet. --- Titinius. --- Tolomeo. --- Torelli. --- Torquato Tasso. --- Tragicomedy. --- Ulisse. --- Zanni.