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Inquiries into truth and interpretation / Donald Davidson.
LIBRA - Special P106 .D27 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davidson, Donald, 1917-2003.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Language and languages--Philosophy.
- Language and languages.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 296 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- The essays in this volume are addressed to the question of what it is for words to mean what they do. The author argues that a philosophically instructive theory of meaning should acknowledge the holistic nature of linguistic understanding, in that it should provide an interpretation of all utterances, actual and potential, of a speaker or group of speakers; and that it should not rely upon the concepts it attempts to explain, in that it should be verifiable independently of knowledge of the detailed propositional attitudes of the speaker. The collection brings together for the first time some of Donald Davidson's most influential and important contributions to the philosophy of language, which have hitherto remained scattered and hard to obtain.
- Contents:
- Truth and Meaning 1
- Essay 1. Theories of Meaning and Learnable Languages (1965) 3
- Essay 2. Truth and Meaning (1967) 17
- Essay 3. True to the Facts (1969) 43
- Essay 4. Semantics for Natural Languages (1970) 55
- Essay 5. In Defence of Convention T (1973) 65
- Applications 77
- Essay 6. Quotation (1979) 79
- Essay 7. On Saying That (1968) 93
- Essay 8. Moods and Performance (1979) 109
- Radical Interpretation 123
- Essay 9. Radical Interpretation (1973) 125
- Essay 10. Belief and the Basis of Meaning (1974) 141
- Essay 11. Thought and Talk (1975) 155
- Essay 12. Reply to Foster (1976) 171
- Language and Reality 181
- Essay 13. On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme (1974) 183
- Essay 14. The Method of Truth in Metaphysics (1977) 199
- Essay 15. Reality Without Reference (1977) 215
- Essay 16. The Inscrutability of Reference (1979) 227
- Limits of the Literal 243
- Essay 17. What Metaphors Mean (1978) 245
- Essay 18. Communication and Convention (1984) 265
- Appendix to Essay 10. Replies to Lewis and Quine (1974) 281.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [287]-292) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0199246289
- 0199246297
- OCLC:
- 49672348
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