Semantics, Metasemantics, Aboutness (Hardcover)

Semantics aims to describe the significance (or meaning) of linguistic expressions in a systematic way. Metasemantics, or foundational semantics, asks how expressions gain their significance in the first place - what makes it the case that expressions mean what they do. Metasemantics has recently been discussed extensively by philosophers of language, philosophers of mind, and philosophically minded linguists and psychologists. A large concern is semantic indeterminacy, the worry that there is no fact of the matter as to the semantic significance of our words. Ori Simchen offers a distinctly metasemantic strategy to counter this threat. Semantics, Metasemantics, Aboutness is the first book-length treatment of metasemantics and its relation to the thriving research program of truth-conditional semantics.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2017
Authors:	Ori Simchen
Dimensions:	223 x 142 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	192
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-879214-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Philosophy of language Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge Promotions
LSN:	0-19-879214-X
Barcode:	9780198792147

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