Semantics, Metasemantics, Aboutness

Semantics, Metasemantics, Aboutness
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 178
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ISBN-10 : 9780198792147
ISBN-13 : 019879214X
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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 with total page 178 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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