Semantics, Metasemantics, Aboutness

Semantics, Metasemantics, Aboutness
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 176
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ISBN-10 : 9780192509994
ISBN-13 : 0192509993
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Download or read book Semantics, Metasemantics, Aboutness written by Ori Simchen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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