How to Think about Meaning (Philosophical Studies Series, 109)
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| Management number | 233514665 | Release Date | 2026/06/27 | List Price | US$46.39 | Model Number | 233514665 | ||
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According to the dominant theory of meaning, truth-conditional semantics, to explain the meaning of a statement is to specify the conditions necessary and sufficient for its truth. Classical truth-conditional semantics is coming under increasing attack, however, from contextualists and inferentialists, who agree that meaning is located in the mind.How to Think about Meaning develops an even more radical mentalist semantics, which it does by shifting the object of semantic inquiry. Whereas for classical semantics the object of analysis is an abstract sentence or utterance such as “Grass is green”, for attitudinal semantics the object of inquiry is a propositional attitude such as “Speaker so-and-so thinks grass is green”. Explicit relativization to some speaker S allows for semantic theory then to make contact with psychology, sociology, historical linguistics, and other empirical disciplines. Read more
| ASIN | 140205856X |
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| ISBN10 | 9781402058561 |
| ISBN13 | 978-1402058561 |
| Edition | 2007th |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Dimensions | 6.38 x 0.87 x 9.45 inches |
| Item Weight | 1.25 pounds |
| Print length | 300 pages |
| Part of series | Philosophical Studies |
| Publication date | May 24, 2007 |
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