Truth in virtue of meaning / Gillian Russell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Russell, Gillian Kay, 1976- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Truth.

Meaning (Philosophy).

Grammar, Comparative and general--Sentences.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 232 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The analytic/synthetic distinction looks simple. It is a distinction between two different kinds of sentence. Synthetic sentences are true in part because of the way the world is, and in part because of what they mean. Analytic sentences - like all bachelors are unmarried and triangles have three sides - are different. They are true in virtue of meaning, so no matter what the world is like, as long as the sentence means what it does, it will be true. This distinction seems powerful because analytic sentences seem to be knowable in a special way. One can know that all bachelors are unmarried, f

Contents:

The 'in virtue of' relation

Meaning

Beyond modality

The spectre of "two dogmas"

Definitions

More arguments against analyticity

Analytic justification.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-228) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-969473-7

1-281-15043-6

9786611150433

0-19-152833-1

OCLC:

609342337