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Questions (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1978)
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Questions (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1978)
Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, 1
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To the philosopher, the logician, and the linguist, questions have
a special fascination. The two main views of language, that it
describes the world, and that it expresses thought, are not
directly applicable to questions. Ques tions are not assertions. A
question may be apt, sharp, to the point, impor tant, or it may be
inappropriate, ambiguous, awkward, irrelevant or irreverent. But it
cannot be true or false. It does not have a truth value not just
because an utterance like Was the letter long? does not indicate
which letter is being talked about. The indicative The letter was
not long has the same indeter minacy. In actual context the
anaphoric definite article will be resolved both for a question and
for an indicative sentence. Contextual resolutions are easily found
for most cross-references. A question cannot be either true or it
does not describe a state of affairs. Neither does it express
false, because thought, because it is an expression of suspended
thought, of lack of judge ment. To dress it in other philosophical
styles, a question is not a judgment, it is not a proposition, it
is not an assertion. A philosopher may try to paraphrase a question
as an indicative sentence, for instance as a statement of
ignorance, or as a statement of the desire to know. Hintikka,
Wachowicz and Lang explore this territory. Or he may interpret it
as a meta statement intimating the direction in which the flow of
the discourse is going."
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Imprint: |
Kluwer Academic Publishers
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Country of origin: |
Netherlands |
Series: |
Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, 1 |
Release date: |
November 1979 |
First published: |
November 1979 |
Editors: |
H. Hiz
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Dimensions: |
235 x 155 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
383 |
Edition: |
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1978 |
ISBN-13: |
978-90-277-1035-2 |
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LSN: |
90-277-1035-X |
Barcode: |
9789027710352 |
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