[FRIAM] All Of Feynman’s Lectures Now Available Online Completely Free

[Roger Critchlow]

Glen --

Glad to facilitate.  There is no whole document pdf link that I could find.
I figure they just supplied the output files from TeX.  The next step for
the publisher doesn't require a concatenated pdf.  I used gs to concatenate.

INPUT="f000[2-7]00_*.pdf c*_*.pdf r*_*.pdf c005600_*.pdf"

gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress
> -sOutputFile=art-of-abduction.pdf ${INPUT}


Do you know how to concatenate the book parts and get functioning
hyperlinks?

-- rec --

On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 10:40 AM glen <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is excellent! Thanks for the pointer. Maybe I missed the whole
> document link. But I've assembled the PDFs into 1 file if anyone would like
> me to send it to them.
>
> On 7/24/22 06:12, Roger Critchlow wrote:
> > Here's a new free book at MIT Press which I'm finding readable.
> Suggested by hackernews.
> >
> > https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5329/The-Art-of-Abduction <
> https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5329/The-Art-of-Abduction>
> >
> >  From the Introduction:
> >     If you are a linguist, I encourage you to read on because abduction
> has been said to be fundamental to determining what a speaker means by an
> utterance.  Specifically, it has been argued that decoding utterances is a
> matter of figuring out the best explanation of why someone said what she
> said when she said it.  Even more specifically, authors working in the
> field of pragmatics have suggested that hearers invoke the Gricean maxims
> of conversation (Grice, 1989) [
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_principle <
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_principle>] to help them work
> out the best explanation of a speaker's utterance whenever the semantic
> content of the utterance is insufficiently informative  for the purposes of
> the conversation, or is /too/ informative, or is off topic, or is
> implausible, or is otherwise  odd or inappropriate.  As Yan Huang (1994, p.
> 2) puts it, "What pragmatics does is to provide a set of ...
> /explanatory/ principles which constrains
> >     the interpretation or production of an utterance whose linguistic
> representation has already been antecedently cognized" (emphasis mine).
>
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