TY - BOOK AU - Neville,Robert C. TI - Recovery of the measure: interpretation and nature SN - 0791400999 AV - BD 581 .N48 PY - 1989/// CY - Albany PB - State University of New York Press KW - Philosophy of nature KW - Hermeneutics KW - Metaphysics KW - Philosophy, American KW - 20th century N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Contents; The problem of truth: Imagination and interpretation-- Myth-- The imperial triumph of interpretation-- Fact and value; Philosophical strategies: Catesian mechanism vs. context dependence-- Functionalism-- Hermeneutics-- Pragmatism; Truth, an axiological hypothesis: Interpretation-- Value and valuation-- Truht as the carryover of value-- The hypothesis as a theory of truth; Participation, the context of a philosophy of interpretation: Biological participation-- Cultural participation-- Semiotic participation-- Purposive participation; Identity: The problem of identity-- Identity and metaphysics and cosmology-- Difference, conditional features-- Self-identity, essential features; Being and primary cosmology: BEing and ontological ground of reality-- Primary cosmology-- Form, components, actuality and goodness-- A summary theory of reality; Value: Historical reflections on "value"-- The "objectivity" of value-- A theory of value-- Form and value; Harmony: a theory of components: Claiming and patterned components, extensionality-- Achieved components, actual space-time-- Harmonized components, Cosmos and chaos-- Knowledge of value; Modalities of time: Present-- Past-- Future-- The being of time; Temporal things, endurance, perishing, and change: Endurance-- Perishing-- Discursive actuality-- The temporal structure of human being; Space and motion: Space and extensionality-- Motion-- Dynamics of the space-time field-- Extensionality and the "metaphysics of presence"; Causation: Causation, endurance and growth-- Inertial forces, regularities, and systems-- Discursive individuals-- Causation, nature and interpretation; Network meaning: On language for interpretation theory-- Rules, networks, and reference-- The development of codes-- Formal structure of network meaning; Content meaning: Pragmatism and the linguistic turn-- The structure of content meaning-- Human representations-- Value and deficiency in content meaning; Intentionality: Experience as process-- The vector character of experience-- Presentational immediacy-- The temporality of intentional life; Interpretation: Purpose-- Context-- Truth-- The world as measure ER -