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Meaning, Use and Truth (Paperback)
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What is linguistic meaning? What do people precisely do in uttering
sentences? What are the principles involved in linguistic
interpretation? How is it possible that linguistic signs, such as
oral sounds or squiggles on a piece of paper, refer to things in
the world? This book presents the attempts by philosophers in the
20th century to understand the workings of language, and address
questions such as these. Presenting an accessible, balanced
introduction to the philosophy of language as it has evolved in
analytical philosophy during the 20th century, this textbooks
offers equal attention to both of the main divisions within the
field of philosophical semantics -truth-conditional theory and
speech act theory - and shows how these theoretical approaches may
be construed as complementary abstractions from a prior,
undifferentiated understanding of meaning as defined by use.
Meaning, Use and Truth offers students of philosophy of language,
and those in related fields such as logic and linguistics, a
comprehensive introduction to the field, and explores why
philosophy of language in the 20th century could be viewed as
providing the key to the solution if the classical problems of
philosophy. Finn Collin is Professor of Philosophy at the
University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Finn Guldmann is External
Lecturer at the University of Copenhagen and at Roskilde
University, Denmark.
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