The seas of language
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The seas of language
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1996, c1993
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Michael Dummett is one of the most important and influential of contemporary philosophers; this book covers his work in the closely related fields of metaphysics and the philosophy of language.
Table of Contents
- 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. Common Sense and Physics
- 17. Testimony and Memory *
- 18. What is Mathematics About?
- 19. Wittgenstein on Necessity: Some Reflections
- 20. Realism and Anti-Realism *
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