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How to Understand Language : a Philosophical Inquiry.

Why are philosophers, as opposed to, say, linguists and psychologists, puzzled by language? How should we attempt to shed philosophical light on the phenomenon of language? ""How to Understand Language"" frames its discussion by these two questions. The book begins by thinking ab...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Weiss, Bernhard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Why are philosophers, as opposed to, say, linguists and psychologists, puzzled by language? How should we attempt to shed philosophical light on the phenomenon of language? ""How to Understand Language"" frames its discussion by these two questions. The book begins by thinking about the reasons that language is hard to understand from a philosophical point of view and, armed with the fruits of that discussion, begins searching for an approach to these questions. After finding fault with approaches based on philosophical analysis and on translation it undertakes an extended investigation of the.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (286 pages)
ISBN:9781317492290
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