Emphatics (The Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy)
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Word Count
64,250 words, Guess
Page Count
257 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL8169788M
- ISBN-139780826513533
- ISBN-100826513530
- OCLC Control Number43370158
- OCLC Control Numberemphatics0000weis
and 2 more
- Library of Congress Control Number00008055
- LibraryThing4578955
Classifications
- LCCB945.W3963 E57 2000
Description
"Defining an "emphatic" as an intrusion that alters the import of what it intrudes on, Weiss sets the stage for an exquisitely systematic, speculative study of the major themes confronting modern metaphysics. The idea of an emphatic has its roots in Weiss's long-developed pluralistic ontology, with a special focus on what we experience as an "emphasis." The most obvious examples are grammatical devices such as changed pitch in speech or exclamation and question marks in writing. Weiss also analyzes emphatics in etiquette, social status, nature, art, conventional behavior, encyclopedias, psychiatry, and religion."--BOOK JACKET.
First Sentence
An emphatic is an intrusion that alters the import of that which it is intruded on.
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