Dividing Reality

by Eli Hirsch

Book Overview

The central question in this book is why it seems reasonable for the words of our language to divide up the world in ordinary ways rather than other imaginable ways. Hirsch calls this the division problem. His book aims to bring this problem into sharp focus, to distinguish it from various related problems, and to consider the best prospects for solving it. In exploring various possible responses to the division problem, Hirsch examines series of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195111427
• ISBN13: 9780195111422
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"