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On goodness / David Conan Wolfsdorf.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wolfsdorf, David, 1969- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Good and evil.
- Semantics (Philosophy).
- Linguistics--Philosophy.
- Linguistics.
- Virtue.
- Virtues.
- Metaphysics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 314 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- This work answers to answer the question 'What is goodness?'. The method it employs to answer this question is linguistic. The central methodological claim of the text is that answering the question 'What is goodness?' requires answering the question 'What does the word 'goodness' mean?'. Consequently, 'On Goodness' is pervasively informed by and critically engaged with ideas and theories in contemporary linguistics.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Ambiguity
- Gradability
- Value
- Dimensional specification
- Adjectival nominalization
- Bare noun phrases.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2019.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 30, 2019).
- ISBN:
- 9780190688523
- 0190688521
- 9780190688530
- 019068853X
- 9780190688516
- 0190688513
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