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Donald Davidson's Truth-Theoretic Semantics (Hardcover, New)
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Donald Davidson's Truth-Theoretic Semantics (Hardcover, New)
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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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