Semantics, Metasemantics, Aboutness

Semantics, Metasemantics, Aboutness

by Ori Simchen
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 23/02/2017

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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.

ISBN:
9780192509994
9780192509994
Category:
Philosophy
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
23-02-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
OUP Oxford

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