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Meaning, Truth, and the Limits of Analysis: Ten Studies

By David Wiggins

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2022
ISBN
9780198726173
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11163473 bytes)
Pages
206\208
Time added
2023-02-11 09:43:48

Description

This volume draws together four decades of work by David Wiggins on topics to do with language, meaning, truth, and the limit of semantic analysis. Topics include the historical background of contemporary philosophical accounts of meaning, sentence structure, definitions, and the nature of truth. Cover Title Page Contents Sources Introduction 1. Meaning and Truth-Conditions: From Frege’s Grand Design to Davidson’s 2. Concept and Copula 3. Donald Davidson’s Account of Semantic Interpretation. How Comprehensive is it? ‘All’, ‘Some’, and ‘Most’ 4. Names, Existence, and Contingency 5. Modes of Grammatical Combination, Adverbs, and the Case of Action-sentences 6. Three Moments in the Theory of Definition or Analysis: Its Possibility, Its Aim or Aims, and Its Limit or Terminus 7. Locke: ‘The Great Conduit’ 8. Languages as Things in their Own Right 9. Peirce: Reflections on Inquiry and Truth arising from his Method for the Fixation of Belief 10. An Indefinibilist-cum-Substantivist Account of Truth and the Marks of Truth Bibliography Index

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