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Meaning without Truth (Hardcover, New)
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Meaning without Truth (Hardcover, New)
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Stefano Predelli presents an original account of the relationships
between the central semantic notions of meaning and truth. Part One
begins with the study of phenomena that have little or nothing to
do with the effects of meaning on truth. Predelli warns against
what he calls 'the Fallacy of Misplaced Character', and is
concerned with sentences such as 'there sometimes exist sentences
containing exactly eight words', 'I am now uttering a
non-contradictory sentence', or 'I exist'. In Part Two, he moves on
to further cases which bear no interesting relations with questions
of truth, but which, unlike those in Part One, have important
repercussions on questions of meaning. The resulting 'Theory of
Bias' is applied to expressive interjections (with a chapter about
the logical properties of 'alas'), to instances of register and
coarse slang, to honorifics and nicknames, and to derogatory slurs.
Part Three draws from the previous two parts, and argues that some
notorious semantic problems ought to be approached from the
viewpoint of the Theory of Bias. Predelli starts with vocatives,
dates, and signatures, and introduces the notion of 'obstinate
indexicality', which then guides his solution to Quine's
'Giorgione' puzzle, his version of the demonstrative theory
quotation, and his defence of the bare-boned approach to
demonstratives and demonstrations.
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