Semantics, Metasemantics, Aboutness
Hardcover/Language Arts & Disciplines 178 pages English Apr 16, 2017
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Semantics aims to describe the significance (or meaning) of linguistic expressions in a systematic way. Metasemantics, or foundational semantics, asks how expressions gain their significance in the first place - what makes it the case that expressions mean what they do. Metasemantics has recently been discussed extensively by philosophers of language, philosophers of mind, and philosophically minded linguists and psychologists. A large concern is semantic indeterminacy, the worry that there is no fact of the matter as to the semantic significance of our words. Ori Simchen offers a distinctly metasemantic strategy to counter this threat. Semantics, Metasemantics, Aboutness is the first book-length treatment of metasemantics and its relation to the thriving research program of truth-conditional semantics.
- Author:
- Ori Simchen
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:
- Apr 16, 2017
- Number of pages:
- 178 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover/Language Arts & Disciplines
- ISBN-10:
- 019879214X
- ISBN-13:
- 9780198792147