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Reflections on Meaning

By Paul Horwich

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2006
ISBN
9780199251254, 0199251258, 019925124X, 9780199251247, 9781423788812
LCC
B105.M4 H67 2005
Open Library ID
OL22712709M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1140202 bytes)
Pages
247\247
Scanned
yes
Time added
2010-08-30 15:18:36

Description

Paul Horwich's 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 a groundbreaking development of Wittgenstein's idea that the meaning of a term is nothing more than its use. While the chapters here have appeared as individual essays, Horwich has edited them to make a continuous argument, focused on articulating and developing an important new conception of language.

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