Truth and words / Gary Ebbs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ebbs, Gary.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Truth.

Predicate (Logic).

Language and logic.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Sentences.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

To clarify and facilitate our inquiries we need to define a disquotational truth predicate that we are directly licensed to apply not only to our own sentences as we use them now, but also to other speakers' sentences and our own sentences as we used them in the past. The conventional wisdom is that there can be no such truth predicate. For it appears that the only instances of the disquotational pattern that we are directly licensed to accept are those that define 'is true' for ourown sentences as we use them now. Gary Ebbs shows that this appearance is illusory. He constructs an account of w

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; 1. Regimentation; 2. The Tarski-Quine Thesis; 3. The Intersubjectivity Constraint; 4. How to Think about Words; 5. Learning from Others, Interpretation, and Charity; 6. A Puzzle about Sameness of Satisfaction across Time; 7. Sense and Partial Extension; 8. The Puzzle Diagnosed and Dissolved; 9. Applications and Consequences; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [320]-329) and index.

Description based on print version record.

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ISBN:

0-19-161972-8

0-19-969226-2

1-282-26832-5

9786612268328

0-19-156970-4

OCLC:

438157416