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Conjoining meanings : semantics without truth values / Paul M. Pietroski.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pietroski, Paul M., author.
- Series:
- Context and content.
- Context and content
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Meaning (Philosophy).
- Semantics (Philosophy).
- Semantics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 393 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Semantics without truth values
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- Paul M. Pietroski presents an ambitious new account of human languages as generative procedures that respect substantive constraints. He argues that meanings are neither concepts nor extensions, and sentences do not have truth conditions; meanings are composable instructions for how to access and assemble concepts of a special sort.
- Contents:
- Locating meanings
- Introducing concepts
- Invention and satisfaction
- Truth or understanding
- Events and framing
- Massively monadic, potentially plural
- Minimal semantic instructions
- Reprise.
- Notes:
- This edition previously issued in print: 2018.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 18, 2018).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-185051-9
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