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Metasemantics - New Essays on the Foundations of Meaning (Hardcover)
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Metasemantics - New Essays on the Foundations of Meaning (Hardcover)
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Metasemantics comprises new work on the philosophical foundations
of linguistic semantics, by a diverse group of established and
emerging experts in the philosophy of language, metaphysics, and
the theory of content. The science of semantics aspires to
systematically specify the meanings of linguistic expressions in
context. The paradigmatic metasemantic question is accordingly:
what more basic or fundamental features of the world metaphysically
determine these semantic facts? Efforts to answer this question
inevitably raise others. Where are the boundaries of semantics?
What is the essence of the meaning relation? Which framework should
we use for semantic theorizing? What are the intrinsic natures of
semantic values? Are the semantic facts metaphysically determinate?
What is semantic competence? Metasemantic inquiry has long been
recognized as a central part of the philosophy of language, but
recent developments in metaphysics and semantics itself now allow
us to approach these classic questions with an unprecedented degree
of precision. The essays collected here provide promising new
perspectives on old problems, pose questions that suggest novel
research projects, and taken together, greatly sharpen our
understanding of linguistic representation.
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