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Pages: 232
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Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-05-31 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Anandi Hattiangadi provides an innovative response to the argument for meaning scepticism set out by Saul Kripke in Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language.
The Meaning of 'ought'
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Authors: Matthew Chrisman
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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This book motivates a novel inferentialist account of the meaning of a core set of normative sentences. Building on a careful truth-conditionalist semantics for
Austen's Oughts
Language: en
Pages: 365
Authors: Karen Valihora
Categories: English literature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: University of Delaware Press

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The word is all over Jane Austen's novels: what ought to be done, what one ought to say, how one ought to feel (versus how one does feel). When Austen's charact
Night Thoughts
Language: en
Pages: 50
Authors: Wallace Shawn
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-05-22 - Publisher: Haymarket Books

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This “acerbic yet compassionate” meditation on humanity by the acclaimed actor and playwright offers “curiosity, thoughtfulness, sharp logic, deep emotion
Thinking How to Live
Language: en
Pages: 321
Authors: Allan GIBBARD
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-06-30 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Philosophers have long suspected that thought and discourse about what we ought to do differ in some fundamental way from statements about what is. But the diff