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What is meaning? /
The tradition descending from Frege and Russell has typically treated theories of meaning either as theories of meanings (propositions expressed), or as theories of truth conditions. However, propositions of the classical sort don't exist, and truth conditions can't provide all the informa...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
©2010.
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| Collection: | Soochow University lectures in philosophy.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | The tradition descending from Frege and Russell has typically treated theories of meaning either as theories of meanings (propositions expressed), or as theories of truth conditions. However, propositions of the classical sort don't exist, and truth conditions can't provide all the information required by a theory of meaning. In this book, one of the world's leading philosophers of language offers a way out of this dilemma. Traditionally conceived, propositions are denizens of a "third realm" beyond mind and matter, "grasped" by mysterious Platonic intuition. As conceived here, they are cognit. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (x, 132 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400833948 1400833949 9780691156392 0691156395 |