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Meaning and Use (Hardcover, 1979 ed.)
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Meaning and Use (Hardcover, 1979 ed.)
Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, 3
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The second Jerusalem Philosophical Encounter was held in Jerusalem
on April 25-28, 1976. The symposium was originally planned to
celebrate the 60th birthday of Y ehoshua Bar-Hillel, philosopher
and friend. But his sudden death intervened, and turned celebration
into commemoration. The topic of the symposiumwas Meaning and Use.
For Bar-Hillel, the question 'meaning or use?' was of great
importance, one which he took as a question of priorities. Which
approach to natural language is prior: the formal, semantical
approach, which accords a central position to the truth functional
concept of meaning and to the theory of reference, or rather the
alternative approach which accords the central position to
linguistic commu nication and prefers dealing with speech acts to
dealing with Statements? Bar Hillel's answer to this question, in
his later years, can be summed up by our title, meaning and use:
neither approach deserves priority, each is equally necessary, and
they both complement each other. Those familiar with Bar Hillel's
uncompromising intellectual honesty would know that this answer
does not reflect a superficial wish for domestic peace, but stems
rather from deep and informed convictions. The issues of meaning
and use dominated Bar-Hillel's intellectuallife. At the same time
his day-to-day existence was guided by the idea that the meaning of
life is to be found in being useful, particularly in being useful
to the community of seekers of knowledge."
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