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The problem of definition has a long history and has engaged the minds of some of the most eminent thinkers in the Western tradition, from Plato and Aristotle onwards. This work focuses on two areas where difficulties arise in a particularly acute form: lexicography and the law.

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Are contemporary art theorists and critics speaking a language that has lost its meaning This book takes a linguistic approach to the key issues and shows that what have been considered problems of aesthetics and artistic justification often have their source in underlying linguistic assumptions.

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Are contemporary art theorists and critics speaking a language that has lost its meaning This book takes a linguistic approach to the key issues and shows that what have been considered problems of aesthetics and artistic justification often have their source in underlying linguistic assumptions.

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The "Key Issues" series makes available the contemporary responses that met important books on their first appearance. The notion that language was a divine gift to humanity was seriously questioned by Darwin's theory of evolution. This text contains various contributions to the controversy.

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Pays close attention to the early work of the Royal Society and to the twentieth-century semantic crisis caused by attempting to integrate Einsteinian relativity and quantum mechanics. This lucidly written book will be of interest to all those engaged in linguistics, semiotics, philosophy of science and cultural studies.

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Pays close attention to the early work of the Royal Society and to the twentieth-century semantic crisis caused by attempting to integrate Einsteinian relativity and quantum mechanics. This lucidly written book will be of interest to all those engaged in linguistics, semiotics, philosophy of science and cultural studies.