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We are supposed to wage war against Terrorism - but exactly what we are fighting against in this war, there is nearly no consensus about. And, much worse, nearly nobody cares about this conceptual disaster - the main thing being, whether or not you are taking sides with the good guys.

This volume is an analytical attempt to end this disaster. What is Terrorism? Are terrorist acts to be defined exclusively on the basis of the characteristics of the respective actions? Or should we restrict such actions to acts performed by non-state organisations? And, most important, is...

There is a long tradition in the philosophy of explaining the concept of "meaning" in terms of reference of the thing that our sign signifies. At the latest since Wittgenstein, "meaning" has been explained with the formula "meaning=use," where one distinguishes between how one uses something and for what purpose one uses something. The author shows that this dichotomy between the "how" and the "purpose" of use can be unified. He does this by first investigating the concept of the purpose of use and then reconstructs the "use-how" by means of the concept of "convention."...