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Language in the World: A Philosophical Enquiry

By M. J. Cresswell

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1994
ISBN
9780511520037, 0521445620, 0521046211, 0511520034, 9780521046213, 9780521445627
LCC
P106 .C698 1994
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4305597 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
Edition
1
Pages
172\172
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

What makes the words we speak mean what they do? Possible-worlds semantics articulates the view that the meanings of words contribute to determining which possible worlds would make a sentence true, and which would make it false. In the first book-length examination from this viewpoint, M.J. Cresswell argues that the nonsemantic facts on which semantic facts supervene are facts about the causal interactions between the linguistic behavior of speakers and the facts in the world that they are speaking about.

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