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Reflections on Meaning - Paul Horwich

Reflections on Meaning

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Buch | Hardcover
246 Seiten
2005
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-925125-4 (ISBN)
CHF 145,15 inkl. MwSt
Aims to explain how mere noises, marks, gestures, and mental symbols are able to capture the world - that is, how words and sentences come to mean what they do, to stand for certain things, to be true or false of reality. The chapters of this book make an argument focused on articulating and developing a fresh conception of language.
Paul Horwich, one of the world's most distinguished philosophers, develops in this book his highly original deflationary conception of language. His main aim in Reflections on Meaning is to explain how mere noises, marks, gestures, and mental symbols are able to capture the world - that is, how words and sentences (in whatever medium) come to mean what they do, to stand for certain things, to be true or false of reality. His answer is an innovative development of Wittgenstein's idea that the meaning of a term is nothing more than its use.

Preface ; 1. The Space of Issues and Options ; 2. A Use Theory of Meaning ; 3. The Pseudo-Problem of Error ; 4. The Sharpness of Vague Terms ; 5. Norms of Truth and Meaning ; 6. Meaning Constitution and Epistemic Rationality ; 7. Meaning and its Place in the Faculty of Language ; 8. Deflating Compositionality

Erscheint lt. Verlag 10.11.2005
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 144 x 224 mm
Gewicht 434 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik / Ontologie
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-19-925125-8 / 0199251258
ISBN-13 978-0-19-925125-4 / 9780199251254
Zustand Neuware
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