The seas of language
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The seas of language
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1996, c1993
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University of Tsukuba Library, Library on Library and Information Science
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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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