Meaning Without Truth
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Meaning without Truth
Author | : Stefano Predelli |
Publsiher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2013-07-11 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780191502163 |
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Stefano Predelli presents an original account of the relationships between the central semantic notions of meaning and truth. Part One begins with the study of phenomena that have little or nothing to do with the effects of meaning on truth. Predelli warns against what he calls 'the Fallacy of Misplaced Character', and is concerned with sentences such as 'there sometimes exist sentences containing exactly eight words', 'I am now uttering a non-contradictory sentence', or 'I exist'. In Part Two, he moves on to further cases which bear no interesting relations with questions of truth, but which, unlike those in Part One, have important repercussions on questions of meaning. The resulting 'Theory of Bias' is applied to expressive interjections (with a chapter about the logical properties of 'alas'), to instances of register and coarse slang, to honorifics and nicknames, and to derogatory slurs. Part Three draws from the previous two parts, and argues that some notorious semantic problems ought to be approached from the viewpoint of the Theory of Bias. Predelli starts with vocatives, dates, and signatures, and introduces the notion of 'obstinate indexicality', which then guides his solution to Quine's 'Giorgione' puzzle, his version of the demonstrative theory quotation, and his defence of the bare-boned approach to demonstratives and demonstrations.
Meaning Without Truth
Author | : Stefano Predelli |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2013-07-11 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780199695638 |
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In this book the author presents an account of the relationships between the central semantic notions of meaning and truth.
Conjoining Meanings
Author | : Paul M. Pietroski |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780198812722 |
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Paul M. Pietroski presents an ambitious new account of human languages as generative procedures that respect substantive constraints. He argues that meanings are neither concepts nor extensions, and sentences do not have truth conditions; meanings are composable instructions for how to access and assemble concepts of a special sort.
Truth Without Objectivity
Author | : Max Kölbel |
Publsiher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0415272459 |
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Kölbel examines and rejects the mainstream view of 'meaning' and how this relates to truth, instead developing and defending an alternative, relativist, theory.
Donald Davidson on Truth Meaning and the Mental
Author | : Gerhard Preyer |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2012-09-06 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780199697519 |
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This volume offers a reappraisal of Donald Davidson's influential philosophy of thought, meaning, and language, Twelve specially written essays by leading philosophers in the field illuminate a range of themes and problems relating to these subjects, and engage in particular with Ernie Lepore and Kirk Ludwig's interpretation of Davidson's thought.
Truth in Virtue of Meaning
Author | : Gillian Russell,Lecturer in the Department of English Gillian Russell |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2008-02-28 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780199232192 |
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The distinction between analytic and synthetic sentences - the idea that some sentences are true or false just in virtue of what they mean - is a famous focus of philosophical controversy. Gillian Russell reinvigorates the debate with a challenging new defence of the distinction, showing that it is compatible with semantic externalism.
Metaphysics Without Truth
Author | : Stefan Lorenz Sorgner |
Publsiher | : Herbert Utz Verlag |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Metaphysics |
ISBN | : 3896755897 |
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Meaning Without Representation
Author | : Steven Gross,Nicholas Tebben,Michael Williams |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780198722199 |
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Challenges the idea that representation of how the world is should play a fundamental explanatory role in any explanation of language. Examines deflationary accounts of truth, the role of language in expressing mental states, and the normative and the natural as they relate to issues of representation.