The Things We Mean

Stephen Schiffer (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

376 Seiten

2003
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-824108-9 (ISBN)

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Stephen Schiffer presents an innovative account of meaning and belief, and shows how it can illuminate a range of crucial problems regarding language, mind, knowledge and ontology. He introduces the new doctrine of "pleonastic propositions" to explain what the things we mean and believe are. He discusses the relation between semantic and psychological facts, on the one hand, and physical facts, on the other; vagueness and indeterminacy; moral truth; conditionals; and the role of propositional content in information acquisition and explanation.

Preface ; 1. The Face-Value Theory ; 2. Pleonastic Propositions ; 3. Meanings and Knowledge of Meaning ; 4. Having Meaning ; 5. Vagueness and Indeterminacy ; 6. Moral Realism and Indeterminacy ; 7. Conditionals and Indeterminacy ; 8. Why Pleonastic Propositions? Content in Information and Explanation ; References ; Indes

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.10.2003
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	145 x 223 mm
Gewicht	606 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
ISBN-10	0-19-824108-9 / 0198241089
ISBN-13	978-0-19-824108-9 / 9780198241089
Zustand	Neuware