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  • There sit they chatting most of the day; and sippe of a drinke called Coffa (of the berry that it is made of) in little _China_ dishes as hot as they can suffer it: blacke as soote, and tasting not much unlike it

    All About Coffee 1909

  • §186; Lakoff 1970, 252-4; Coffa 1975; Etchemendy 1983, 1990, ch.

    Logical Constants MacFarlane, John 2009

  • Coffa, J.A. [1967]: “Feyerabend on Explanation and Reduction”, Journal of Philosophy,

    Paul Feyerabend Preston, John 2009

  • He tries to show that the activity of “synthesis” was the source of the important cases of a priori knowledge, not only in arithmetic, but also in geometry, the foundations of physics, ethics, and philosophy generally, a view that set the stage for much of the philosophical discussions of the subsequent century (see Coffa 1991: pt I).

    The Analytic/Synthetic Distinction Rey, Georges 2008

  • Apparently, the first to use a version of universal validity and explicitly propose it as both necessary and sufficient for logical truth was Bolzano (see Bolzano 1837, §148; and Coffa 1991, pp. 33-4 for the claim of priority).

    Logical Truth Gómez-Torrente, Mario 2006

  • For a discussion of Carnap's move, see Coffa 1978,

    Vienna Circle Uebel, Thomas 2006

  • And she and her companions Lute and Coffa all had very humanistic qualities in their appearance, so I think the theory is a sound one that they had human as well as wooden ancestors in their family trees.

    O'BSERVATIONS: "THE END OF THE WORLD" Toby O'B 2005

  • Davies also came up with some great names, and since I'm such a fan of "neocognomina", I had a great time as they rolled across the wrinkles of my brain: The City-State of Binding Light, Hop Pyleen, the tree people Jabe, Lute, and Coffa, and the Adherents of the Repeated Meme.

    O'BSERVATIONS: "THE END OF THE WORLD" Toby O'B 2005

  • Coffa, J. (1991), The Semantic Tradition from Kant to Carnap: to the Vienna Station, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

    The Analytic/Synthetic Distinction Rey, Georges 2008

  • Coffa, J. Alberto (1991) The Semantic Tradition from Kant to Carnap, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Russell's Moral Philosophy Pigden, Charles 2007

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