The seas of language /
Dummett defends the verificationist theory of meaning, i.e. to know the meaning of a statement one must be in possession of a procedure to verify it. He also argues for the link between bivalence and the metaphysical doctrine of realism. Other topics include refutation of instrumentalism, mathematic...
| Основен автор: | Dummett, Michael, 1925-2011. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Oxford : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford Univ. Press,
℗♭1993.
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Seas of language. |
Съдържание:
- 1. What is a theory of meaning? (I)
- 2. What is a theory of meaning? (II)
- 3. What do I know when I know a language?
- 4. What does the appeal to use do for the theory of meaning?
- 5. Language and truth
- 6. Truth and meaning
- 7. Language and communication
- 8. The source of the concept of truth
- 9. Mood, force, and convention
- 10. Frege and Husserl on reference
- 11. Realism
- 12. Existence
- 13. Does quantification involve identity?
- 14. Could there be unicorns?
- 15. Causal loops
- 16. Commom sense and physics
- 17. Testimony and memory
- 18. What is mathematics about?
- 19. Wittgenstein on necessity : some reflections
- 20. Realism and anti-realism.