The true and the false : the domain of the pragmatic

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The true and the false : the domain of the pragmatic

Charles Travis

(Pragmatics & beyond : an interdisciplinary series of language studies, II:2)

Benjamins, 1981

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Bibliography: p. [163]-164

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Pragmatics often begins by supposing that specifying and describing truth bearers is a proper task for semantics. The main thrust of the present work is to show why truth and truth bearers lie essentially beyond the descriptive reach of semantics, and to outline a theory of truth bearers as a proper and fundamental task for pragmatics. It is also common for treatments, or definitions of truth to be confused with substantive theories about truth bearers, with a variety of unfortunate results. This monograph suggests a way of separating these tasks, and shows how many problems are thus avoided. Some emphasis is placed on the generally universal - i.e., nonlanguage-specific - character of pragmatic topics, and of truth. These issues occasion a discussion of semantic paradoxes, and of several relativities in the notion of truth.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Preface
  • 2. Part 1: The Border with Semantics
  • 3. Part 2: A Definition of Truth
  • 4. Part 3: Some Objections
  • 5. Part 4: The Relativity of Truth
  • 6. Footnotes
  • 7. References

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  • NCID
    BA03991754
  • ISBN
    • 9027225125
  • LCCN
    81189396
  • Country Code
    ne
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Amsterdam
  • Pages/Volumes
    vi, 164 p.
  • Size
    22 cm
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