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Contexts - Meaning, Truth, and the Use of Language (Hardcover, New)
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Contexts - Meaning, Truth, and the Use of Language (Hardcover, New)
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Stefano Predelli comes to the defence of the traditional 'formal'
approach to natural-language semantics, arguing that it has been
misrepresented not only by its critics, but also by its foremost
defenders. In Contexts he offers a fundamental reappraisal, with
particular attention to the treatment of indexicality and other
forms of contextual dependence which have been the focus of much
recent controversy. Predelli shows how his metasemantic approach
deals with a variety of important semantic and philosophical
puzzles. He analyses the relationship between indexicality and
logical validity, discussing well-known problem cases, and
demonstrating the limits of token-reflexive systems. He
investigates the relationships between truth-conditions and
assignments of truth-values at particular points of evaluation, and
shows that so-called contextualist worries do not undermine the
traditional semantic approach. Finally, he shows that semantic
befuddlement about the interpretation of attitude reports is based
on an inadequate understanding of the scope of natural language
semantics. Contexts will be of great interest to all philosophers
of language, and to many linguists.
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