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1959-, Yeshe Gyamtso Lama, and Tashi Namgyal Lama 1942-, eds. The Ninth Karmapa's Ocean of definitive meaning. Ithaca, N.Y: Snow Lion Publications, 2003.

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Mahāmudrā Teachings of the Supreme Siddhas: The eighth Situpa Tenpa'i Nyinchay on the third Gyalwa Karmapa Rangjung Dorje's "aspiration prayer of Mahāmudrā of definitive meaning". Ithaca, N.Y: Snow Lion Publications, 1995.

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Heim, Maria. Scripture, Commentary, and Exegetical Distinctions. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190906658.003.0003.

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This chapter shows how Buddhaghosa describes the three “genres” or areas of expertise that the Buddha taught: Suttanta, Abhidhamma, and Vinaya. It discusses Buddhaghosa’s interpretation of his school (Vibhajjavāda) as engaging in the practices of analysis. It then describes the chief commentarial building blocks that inform the rest of the book: Buddhaghosa’s distinctions between teachings stated briefly and in detail; the ideas of meaning and phrasing; how teachings can be rendered conventionally and in the furthest sense; definitive and interpretable statements; and contextual and categorical forms of the teaching. All of these are descriptions of the Buddha’s words that then provide interpretative cues for the commentator. The chapter explores how these distinctions can be learned from Buddhaghosa through following his examples and practices, rather than as a set of general principles of interpretation.
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Rinpoche, Khenchen Thrangu, and Lama Tashi Namgyal. Ninth Karmapa's Ocean of Definitive Meaning. Shambhala Publications, Incorporated, 2013.

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Butler, Bill. The Definitive Tarot: The Origins of Tarot and Its Inner Meaning. Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group), 1987.

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Parker, Julia; Parker Derek. The Complete Book of Dreams : The Definitive Guide to the Meaning of Dreams. Elan Press, 1995.

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Pease, Allan, and Barbara Pease. Definitive Book of Body Language, The: The Hidden Meaning Behind People's Gestures and Expressions. Bantam, 2007.

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Hu, Xuhui. Theoretical foundations. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198808466.003.0002.

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Adopting the constructivist approach, especially building on Borer’s (2005a, b, 2013a) XS Model, two theoretical elements in the theory of the syntax of events are put forward. The first element concerns the specific constraints on the interaction between conceptual meaning and syntactic derivation. The content of the predicate will be integrated into the interpretation derived from the syntax via a set of Integration Conditions, according to which, the interpretation derived from syntax licenses the legitimacy of the predicate content. The second theoretical assumption is the addition of the DivP to the event phrase (EP) structure. A verbal feature is in nature an [iDiv] feature, which is equivalent to the interpretable feature provided by the classifier in the nominal domain. The stative/dynamic interpretation of an event is tied to the value of the [iDiv] feature, which further explains the grammatical distinction between two types of homogeneous predicates.
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Zimmermann, Malte. Predicate Focus. Edited by Caroline Féry and Shinichiro Ishihara. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199642670.013.26.

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This chapter discusses a grammatically defined sub-class of focus: that on verbal predicates and on functional elements in the extended verbal projection. The phenomena falling under the label ofpredicate focusare introduced, and it is shown that predicate focus is interpretable on a par with argument or term focus on DPs and PPs. A unified structured-meaning approach that treats focus as the psychological predicate of the clause allows for singling out DP-terms and transitive verbs as categories in need of explicit marking when focused. A cross-linguistic overview of the grammatical strategies for marking predicate focus is provided, focusing on asymmetries in the realization of predicate as opposed to in terms of obligatory marking, grammatical strategy, and complexity. The information-structural and grammatical factors behind such focus asymmetries are discussed with some tentative universals concerning the explicit marking of information-structural categories on verbal predicates.
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Cappelen, Herman, and Josh Dever. Making AI Intelligible. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192894724.001.0001.

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Can humans and artificial intelligences share concepts and communicate? One aim of Making AI Intelligible is to show that philosophical work on the metaphysics of meaning can help answer these questions. Cappelen and Dever use the externalist tradition in philosophy of to create models of how AIs and humans can understand each other. In doing so, they also show ways in which that philosophical tradition can be improved: our linguistic encounters with AIs revel that our theories of meaning have been excessively anthropocentric. The questions addressed in the book are not only theoretically interesting, but the answers have pressing practical implications. Many important decisions about human life are now influenced by AI. In giving that power to AI, we presuppose that AIs can track features of the world that we care about (e.g. creditworthiness, recidivism, cancer, and combatants.) If AIs can share our concepts, that will go some way towards justifying this reliance on AI. The book can be read as a proposal for how to take some first steps towards achieving interpretable AI. Making AI Intelligible is of interest to both philosophers of language and anyone who follows current events or interacts with AI systems. It illustrates how philosophy can help us understand and improve our interactions with AI.
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Lepore, Ernest, and Barry C. Smith, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199552238.001.0001.

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The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language presents the definitive reference work for this diverse and fertile field of philosophy. Leading international figures in the field contribute more than forty brand-new articles, covering topics from the nature of language to meaning, truth, and reference, and the interfaces of philosophy of language with linguistics (syntax, semantics, and pragmatics), psychology, logic, epistemology, and metaphysics.
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Insoll, Timothy, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Figurines. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199675616.001.0001.

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Written by the foremost scholars in figurine studies, this volume provides the definitive Handbook on prehistoric figurines in relation to their subject matter, form, function, context, chronology, meaning, and interpretation. Global in focus, the figurines from Africa, Asia, Australasia and the Pacific, the Americas, and Europe are all considered. Chronologically, the coverage ranges from the Middle Palaeolithic through to areas and periods where an absence of historical sources renders figurines ‘prehistoric’ even though they might have been produced in the mid-2nd millennium AD, as in parts of sub-Saharan Africa. Specific themes that are discussed by contributors include, for example, theories of figurine interpretation, meaning in processes and contexts of figurine production, use, destruction and disposal, and the cognitive and social implications of representation.
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Stewart, Robert. Vascular and mixed dementias. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199644957.003.0034.

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Vascular disease is the most important environmental risk factor for dementia but this research area has been hampered by inadequate outcome definitions – in particular, a diagnostic system that attempts to separate overlapping and probably interacting pathologies. There is now substantial evidence that the well-recognised risk factors for cardiovascular disease and stroke are also risk factors for dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease. However, these risk factors frequently act over several decades, meaning that the chances of definitive randomised controlled trial evidence for risk-modifying interventions are slim. This should not obscure the wide opportunity for delaying or preventing dementia through risk factor control and uncontroversial healthy lifestyles. Care should also be taken that comorbid cerebrovascular disease is not considered as excluding a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, particularly now that this determines treatment eligibility.
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Miller, Steven P. Complicated Innocence. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190683528.003.0012.

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Graham always said he was one thing—an evangelist—but his detractors and supporters alike have dedicated countless words to arguing that he was many other things, too. In 1979 the journalist Marshall Frady published a sweeping biography of Graham; it was touted as the definitive take on America’s evangelist. For Frady, Graham embodied the American myth of innocence, which the Vietnam War and Watergate crisis had put on trial. The story of the book highlights the dynamics surrounding the Graham image. The assertive pushback against Frady’s book by the evangelist and his handlers suggested the high stakes of the Graham brand. Ultimately, the meaning of Graham cannot be separated from the stories that Frady and others have told about him. He has alternatively charmed, frustrated, and befuddled those who have tried to elucidate him and his place in American society. Billy Graham is perhaps America’s most complicated innocent.
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Keating, Michael. State and Nation in the United Kingdom. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198841371.001.0001.

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The United Kingdom is not a nation-state but a political union. It was formed by the coming together, over centuries, of territories which retained their own national identities and institutions. Key questions of demos (the people), telos (the purpose of union), ethos (binding values) and the locus of sovereignty were never definitively resolved. Since 1999, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have had their own self-governing institutions within the Union. Devolution was an effort to stabilize the Union in the face of centrifugal pressures, but it left the same key questions unresolved. The Union is now contested in all four of its component parts and fundamental questions are raised about the meaning of political, social and economic union. Unionism, as doctrine and practice appears to have lost its way, unable to adjust to devolution. Brexit has added to the strains because membership of the European Union provided an external support system for the union of the United Kingdom itself. Yet the UK cannot easily fall apart into its constituent nations, and public opinion still appears largely content with the idea of a plurinational union. There is no definitive answer to the question of state and nation within the United Kingdom.
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Vandrei, Martha. Queen Boudica and Historical Culture in Britain. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198816720.001.0001.

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This innovative and distinctive book takes a long chronological view and a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary approach. It is the definitive work on the posthumous reputation of the ever-popular warrior queen of the Iceni, Queen Boadicea/Boudica. It explores her presence in British historical discourse, from the early modern rediscovery of the works of Tacitus to the first historical films of the early twentieth century. In doing so, the book seeks to demonstrate the continuity and persistence of historical ideas across time and throughout a variety of media. This focus on continuity leads into an examination of the nature of history as a cultural phenomenon and the implications this has for our own conceptions of history and its role in culture more generally. While providing contemporary contextual readings of Boudica’s representations, this book also explores the unique nature of historical ideas as durable cultural phenomena, articulated by very different individuals over time, all of whom were nevertheless engaged in the creative process of making history. Thus this book presents a challenge to the axioms of cultural history, new historicism, and other mainstays of twentieth- and twenty-first-century historical scholarship. It shows how, long before professional historians sought to monopolize historical practice, audiences encountered visions of past ages created by antiquaries, playwrights, poets, novelists, and artists, all of whom engaged with, articulated, and even defined the meaning of ‘historical truth’. This book argues that these individual depictions, variable audience reactions, and the abiding notion of history as truth constitute the substance of historical culture.
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