The Natural Background of Meaning (Hardcover, 1998 ed.)

In The Natural Background to Meaning Denkel argues that meaning in language is an outcome of the evolutionary development of forms of animal communication, and explains this process by naturalising the Locke-Grice approach. The roots of meaning are contained in observable regularities, which are manifestations of objective connections such as essences and causal relations. Denkel's particularistic ontology of properties and causation leads to a view of time that harmonises B-theory with transience. Time's passage, he argues, is a necessary condition of communication and meaning. The book connects some central topics in the philosophies of language, science and ontology, treating them within the framework of a single theory. It will interest not only professional philosophers doing research on meaning, universals, causation and time, but also students, who can consult it as a textbook examining Grice's theory of meaning.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 197
Release date:	October 1998
First published:	1999
Authors:	A. Denkel
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	252
Edition:	1998 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-7923-5331-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Philosophy of language Promotions
LSN:	0-7923-5331-5
Barcode:	9780792353317

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