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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 3 December 1998
- ISBN 9780198237280
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages254 pages
- Size 224x143x18 mm
- Weight 427 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Paul Horwich presents an original theory of meaning, demonstrates its richness, and defends it against all comers. He surveys the diversity of twentieth-century philosophical insights into meaning and shows that his theory can reconcile these with a common-sense view of meaning as derived from use. Meaning and its companion volume Truth (now issued in a revised edition) demystify two central issues in philosophy, and offer a controversial but compelling view of the relations between language, thought, and reality.
MoreLong description:
What is meaning? Paul Horwich presents an original philosophical theory, demonstrates its richness, and defends it against all comers. At the core of his theory is the idea, made famous by Wittgenstein, that the meaning of a word derives from its use; Horwich articulates this idea in a new way that will restore it to the prominence that it deserves. He surveys the diversity of valuable insights into meaning that have been gained in the twentieth century, and seeks to accommodate them within his theory. His aim is not to correct a common-sense view of meaning, but to vindicate it: he seeks to take the mystery out of meaning.
Horwich's 1990 book Truth stablished itself both as the definitive exposition and defence of a notable philosophical theory, `minimalism', and as a stimulating, straightforward introduction to philosophical debate about truth. Meaning now gives the broader context in which the theory of truth operates, and is published simultaneously with a revised edition of Truth, in which Horwich refines and develops his treatment of the subject in the light of subsequent discussions, while preserving the distinctive format which made the book so successful. The two books together present a compelling view of the relations between language, thought, and reality. They will be essential reading for all philosophers of language.
an important book ... a thought-provoking challenge to the current orthodoxies surrounding meaning, one on which all advocates of formal semantics - indeed all those who want an answer to the question of what meaning is - will do well to reflect.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Pseudo-Constraints on an Adequate Theory of Meaning
Meaning as Use
Truth
Reference
Implicit Definition, Analyticity, and A-priori Knowledge
The Composition of Meanings
Norms of Language
Quelling Quine's Qualms
A Straight Solution to Kripke's Sceptical Paradox
Bibliography
Index
