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The true and the false : the domain of the pragmatic / Charles Travis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Travis, Charles, 1943-
- Series:
- Pragmatics & beyond ; 2:2.
- Pragmatics & beyond, 0166-6258 ; 2:2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Semantics (Philosophy).
- Truth.
- Pragmatics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (170 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : Benjamins, 1981.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Pragmatics often begins by supposing that specifying and describing truth bearers is a proper task for semantics. The main thrust of the present work is to show why truth and truth bearers lie essentially beyond the descriptive reach of semantics, and to outline a theory of truth bearers as a proper and fundamental task for pragmatics. It is also common for treatments, or definitions of truth to be confused with substantive theories about truth bearers, with a variety of unfortunate results. This monograph suggests a way of separating these tasks, and shows how many problems are thus avoided.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. The border with semantics
- pt. 2. A definition of truth
- pt. 3. Some objections
- pt. 4. The relativity of truth.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-35972-3
- 9786613359728
- 90-272-8083-5
- OCLC:
- 769342244
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