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Donald Davidson's Truth-Theoretic Semantics (Paperback)
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Ernest Lepore and Kirk Ludwig examine the foundations and
applications of Davidson's influential program of truth-theoretic
semantics for natural languages. The program uses an axiomatic
truth theory for a language, which meets certain constraints, to
serve the goals of a compositional meaning theory.
Lepore and Ludwig explain and clarify the motivations for the
approach, and then consider how to apply the framework to a range
of important natural language constructions, including quantifiers,
proper names, indexicals, simple and complex demonstratives,
quotation, adjectives and adverbs, the simple and perfect tenses,
temporal adverbials and temporal quantifiers, tense in sentential
complement clauses, attitude and indirect discourse reports, and
the problem of interrogative and imperative sentences. They not
only discuss Davidson's own contributions to these subjects but
consider criticisms, developments, and alternatives as well. They
conclude with a discussion of logical form in natural language in
light of the approach, the role of the concept of truth in the
program, and Davidson's view of it. Anyone working on meaning will
find this book invaluable.
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