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These thirty-one devotionals are written by an eighty-five-year-old for those saints looking for ways to relate to biblical passages for wisdom and guidance. This search presents some unique challenges for those who have been gifted with cutting-edge years. Familiar passages that tell us how best to live life on this earth can now take on different meanings. These devotional passages focus on the reader's renewed relationship with God and living by faith, encouraging the reader's spiritual growth.

In this provocative and wide-ranging book, Michael Devitt argues for a thoroughgoing realism about the common-sense and scientific physical world, and for a correspondence notion of truth. Furthermore, he argues that, contrary to received opinion, the metaphysical question of realism is distinct from, and prior to, any semantic question about truth. The book makes incisive responses to Putnam, Dummett, van Fraassen, and other major anti-realists. The new afterword includes an extensive discussion of the metaphysics of nonfactualism, and new thoughts on the need for truth and on the...

This book criticizes the methodology of the recent semantics-pragmatics debate in the theory of language and proposes an alternative. It applies this methodology to argue for a traditional view against a group of “contextualists” and “pragmatists”, including Sperber and Wilson, Bach, Carston, Recanati, Neale, and many others.  The author disagrees with these theorists who hold that the meaning of the sentence in an utterance never, or hardly ever, yields its literal truth-conditional content, even after disambiguation and reference fixing; it needs to be pragmatically...

These thirty-one devotionals are written by an eighty-five-year-old for those saints looking for ways to relate to biblical passages for wisdom and guidance. This search presents some unique challenges for those who have been gifted with cutting-edge years. Familiar passages that tell us how best to live life on this earth can now take on different meanings. These devotional passages focus on the reader's renewed relationship with God and living by faith, encouraging the reader's spiritual growth.