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Linguistic philosophy : the central story /
"How much authority should language, the medium of communication, be accorded as a determinant of truth and therefore of what we say? Garth L. Hallett argues that, although never explicitly debated, this is the most significant issue of linguistic philosophy. Here, for the first time, he traces...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2008.
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| Colección: | SUNY series in philosophy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The issue of language's authority
- The question's centrality
- Plato's recourse to nonlinguistic forms
- Aquinas and the primacy of mental truth
- The Tractatus : precise thought versus imprecise language
- Carnap's limited linguistic turn
- Tarski, truth, and claims of linguistic incoherence
- Wittgenstein's acceptance of the authority of language
- Wittgenstein versus theoretical "intuitions"
- Flew and paradigm-case arguments
- Russell's critique of "common sense"
- Malcolm and the "ordinary language" debate
- Austin, statements, and their truth
- A lead overlooked : from meaning to truth
- Kripke, Putnam, and rigid designation
- Quine, linguistic truths, and holistic theory
- Quine, indeterminacy, and the opacity of language
- Rorty, Stich, and pragmatic assertability
- Habermas, communicative speech, and validity
- Past, present, and future : an overview.