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Meaning Reference And Necessity
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Author : Simon Blackburn
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1975
Meaning Reference And Necessity written by Simon Blackburn and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
A volume of studies in philosophical logic by a group of younger philosophers in the UK. There is a core of problems in the theory of meaning which have been accorded a central importance by philosophers, logicians and theoretical linguists, and which have stimulated some of the most powerful and original work in these subjects. The contributors to the volume have a common interest in these topics, insist on their continuing and fundamental importance, and offer here a distinctive and original contribution to them.
Meaning Reference And Necessity
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Author : Simon Blackburn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
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Meaning And Necessity
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Author : Rudolf Carnap
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1988-02-15
Meaning And Necessity written by Rudolf Carnap and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-02-15 with Philosophy categories.
"This book is valuable as expounding in full a theory of meaning that has its roots in the work of Frege and has been of the widest influence. . . . The chief virtue of the book is its systematic character. From Frege to Quine most philosophical logicians have restricted themselves by piecemeal and local assaults on the problems involved. The book is marked by a genial tolerance. Carnap sees himself as proposing conventions rather than asserting truths. However he provides plenty of matter for argument."—Anthony Quinton, Hibbert Journal
Meaning Quantification Necessity
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Author : Martin Davies
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-10-30
Meaning Quantification Necessity written by Martin Davies and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-30 with Philosophy categories.
Originally published in 1981. This is a book for the final year undergraduate or first year graduate who intends to proceed with serious research in philosophical logic. It will be welcomed by both lecturers and students for its careful consideration of main themes ranging from Gricean accounts of meaning to two dimensional modal logic. The first part of the book is concerned with the nature of the semantic theorist’s project, and particularly with the crucial concepts of meaning, truth, and semantic structure. The second and third parts deal with various constructions that are found in natural languages: names, quantifiers, definite descriptions, and modal operators. Throughout, while assuming some familiarity with philosophical logic and elementary formal logic, the text provides a clear exposition. It brings together related ideas, and in some places refines and improves upon existing accounts.
Meaning And Metaphysical Necessity
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Author : Tristan Grøtvedt Haze
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-06-16
Meaning And Metaphysical Necessity written by Tristan Grøtvedt Haze and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-16 with Philosophy categories.
This book is about the idea that some true statements would have been true no matter how the world had turned out, while others could have been false. It develops and defends a version of the idea that we tell the difference between these two types of truths in part by reflecting on the meanings of words. It has often been thought that modal issues—issues about possibility and necessity—are related to issues about meaning. In this book, the author defends the view that the analysis of meaning is not just a preliminary to answering modal questions in philosophy; it is not merely that before we can find out whether something is possible, we need to get clear on what we are talking about. Rather, clarity about meaning often brings with it answers to modal questions. In service of this view, the author analyzes the notion of necessity and develops ideas about linguistic meaning, applying them to several puzzles and problems in philosophy of language. Meaning and Metaphysical Necessity will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophical logic.
Meaning And Modality
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Author : Casimir Lewy
language : en
Publisher: CUP Archive
Release Date : 1976-12-09
Meaning And Modality written by Casimir Lewy and has been published by CUP Archive this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976-12-09 with Mathematics categories.
A study of various central and connected topics in philosophical logic and the theory of meaning. There are important sections on the relation between linguistic and abstract entities, on necessity and convention, on meaning, sense and reference, and on entailment. Dr Lewy proposes a number of original solutions to problems which have been widely discussed in literature, and there is in particular a sharp and sustained criticism of conventionalism and reductionism. These are among the most difficult and intricate issues in contemporary philosophy, but Dr Lewy writes with great clarity and a minimum of technicality. Where his views are controversial they are explained and supported in a detail which makes it both possible and necessary for potential critics to state their disagreement precisely. The book should therefore be of value as an advanced textbook as well as an original contribution to philosophical logic.
Nondescriptive Meaning And Reference
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Author : Wayne A. Davis
language : en
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Release Date : 2005-07-14
Nondescriptive Meaning And Reference written by Wayne A. Davis and has been published by Clarendon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-07-14 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Nondescriptive Meaning and Reference extends Wayne Davis's groundbreaking work on the foundations of semantics. Davis revives the classical doctrine that meaning consists in the expression of ideas, and advances the expression theory by showing how it can account for standard proper names, and the distinctive way their meaning determines their reference. He also shows how the theory can handle interjections, syncategorematic terms, conventional implicatures, and other cases long seen as difficult for both ideational and referential theories. The expression theory is founded on the fact that thoughts are event types with a constituent structure, and that thinking is a fundamental propositional attitude, distinct from belief and desire. Thought parts ('ideas' or 'concepts') are distinguished from both sensory images and conceptions. Word meaning is defined recursively: sentences and other complex expressions mean what they do in virtue of what thought parts their component words express and what thought structure the linguistic structure expresses; and unstructured words mean what they do in living languages in virtue of evolving conventions to use them to express ideas. The difficulties of descriptivism show that the ideas expressed by names are atomic or basic. The reference of a name is the extension of the idea it expresses, which is determined not by causal relations, but by its identity or content together with the nature of objects in the world. Hence a name's reference is dependent on, but not identical to, its meaning. A name is directly and rigidly referential because the extension of the idea it expresses is not determined by the extensions of component ideas. The expression theory thus has the strength of Fregeanism without its descriptivist bias, and of Millianism without its referentialist or causalist shortcomings. The referential properties of ideas can be set out recursively by providing a generative theory of ideas, assigning extensions to atomic ideas, and formulating rules whereby the semantic value of a complex idea is determined by the semantic values of its components. Davis also shows how referential properties can be treated using situation semantics and possible worlds semantics. The key is to drop the assumption that the values of intension functions are the referents of the words whose meaning they represent, and to abandon the necessity of identity for logical modalities. Many other pillars of contemporary philosophical semantics, such as the twin earth arguments, are shown to be unfounded.
Naming And Necessity
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Author : Saul A. Kripke
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Naming And Necessity written by Saul A. Kripke and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with categories.
Definition And Its Necessities
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Author : Henry Garrett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-06-30
Definition And Its Necessities written by Henry Garrett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-30 with categories.
As the far-reached impacts of having the full discussion about necessity and sufficiency, the definitions are the key roles about having the term of word in the matter of necessity and sufficiency. In this viewpoint, the words are gathering in the formations of the new words and deleting the hanging words in the term of the number which is about the times which in that the word is used so in this case, the matter of reintroducing the definitions and reconsidering the arrangements of the words in the way that the words are adapted to the idealism and extremism of having the originally innovative texts of words so there's the ideas about how the exploration could only done in the definitions and its necessities.The Chapter 8 is the end of having the words for going amid the chapters.The author is going to say his gratitude and his appreciation about the brains and their hands which are showing the importance of words in the framework of every wisdom, knowledge, arts and emotions which are streaming in the lines from the words, notions, ideas and approaches to have the material which is only the way to flourish the minds, the growing the notions, advancing ways and making the stable ways to be amid the events and storms of minds for surviving from them and making the outstanding experiences about the tools and ideas to be on the star lines of words and shining like stars, forever.The words of mind and the minds of words, are too eligible to be in the stage of acknowledgments
The New Theory Of Reference
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Author : P. Humphreys
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
The New Theory Of Reference written by P. Humphreys and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Philosophy categories.
On January 20th, 22nd, and 29th, 1970 Saul Kripke delivered three lectures at Princeton University. They produced something of a sensation. In the lectures he argued, amongst other things, that many names in ordinary language referred to objects directly rather than by means of associated descriptions; that causal chains from language user to language user were an important mechanism for preserving reference; that there were necessary a posteriori and contingent a priori truths; that identity relations between rigid designators were necessary; and argued, more tentatively, that materialist identity theories in the philosophy of mind were suspect. Interspersed with this was a consider able amount of material on natural kind terms and essentialism. As a result of these lectures and a related 1971 paper, 'Identity and Necessity' (Kripke [1971]), talk of rigid designators, Hesperus and Phosphorus, meter bars, gold and H 0, and suchlike quickly became commonplace in philosophical circles 2 and when the lectures were published under the title Naming and Necessity in the collection The Semantics of Natural Language (Davidson and Harman l [1972]), that volume became the biggest seller in the Reidel (later Kluwer) list. The cluster of theses surrounding the idea that a relation of direct reference 2 exists between names and their referents is now frequently referred to as 'The 3 New Theory of Reference'.