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Author | : Martin Davies |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2019-10-30 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1000735516 |
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Originally published in 1981. This is a book for the final year undergraduate or first year graduate who intends to proceed with serious research in philosophical logic. It will be welcomed by both lecturers and students for its careful consideration of main themes ranging from Gricean accounts of meaning to two dimensional modal logic. The first part of the book is concerned with the nature of the semantic theorist’s project, and particularly with the crucial concepts of meaning, truth, and semantic structure. The second and third parts deal with various constructions that are found in natural languages: names, quantifiers, definite descriptions, and modal operators. Throughout, while assuming some familiarity with philosophical logic and elementary formal logic, the text provides a clear exposition. It brings together related ideas, and in some places refines and improves upon existing accounts.
Author | : Rudolf Carnap |
Publisher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2011-03-23 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1446545563 |
Download Meaning and Necessity - A Study in Semantics and Modal Logic Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The main purpose of this book is the development of a new method for the semantical analysis of meaning, that is, a new method for analyzing and describing the meanings of linguistic expressions. This method, called the method of extension and intension, is developed by modifying and extending certain customary concepts, especially those of class and property. The method will be contrasted with various other semantical methods used in traditional philosophy or by contemporary authors. These other methods have one characteristic in common. They all regard an expression in a language as a name of a concrete or abstract entity. In contradistinction, the method here proposed takes an expression, not as naming anything, but as possessing an intension and an extension. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author | : Rudolf Carnap |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1988-02-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0226093476 |
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"This book is valuable as expounding in full a theory of meaning that has its roots in the work of Frege and has been of the widest influence. . . . The chief virtue of the book is its systematic character. From Frege to Quine most philosophical logicians have restricted themselves by piecemeal and local assaults on the problems involved. The book is marked by a genial tolerance. Carnap sees himself as proposing conventions rather than asserting truths. However he provides plenty of matter for argument."—Anthony Quinton, Hibbert Journal
Author | : David Wiggins |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2022-03-24 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0191039179 |
Download Meaning, Truth, and the Limits of Analysis Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume draws together work by David Wiggins on topics to do with language, meaning, truth, and the limit of semantic analysis, from 1980 to 2020. Each chapter draws upon previously published material, but that material has been revised, sometimes significantly, for republication here. Opening with a selective account of a century's work in the philosophy of meaning, from Frege and Wittgenstein to the late twentieth century, the book engages first with the nuts and bolts of sentence-construction: predicates and the copula, quantifiers, names, existence treated as a second-level predicate, and adverbial modification. The following five chapters then treat of definition and (as dreamt of by Leibniz and others) the terminus of semantic analysis; the idea of natural languages as real things with a history; the idea of truth conceived as correlative with inquiry (C. S. Peirce) and, finally, the properties we look for in truth itself—the marks, as Frege or Leibniz might have said, of the concept true.
Author | : Saul A. Kripke |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780674598461 |
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If there is such a thing as essential reading in metaphysics or in philosophy of language, this is it. Ever since the publication of its original version, Naming and Necessity has had great and increasing influence. It redirected philosophical attention to neglected questions of natural and metaphysical necessity and to the connections between these and theories of reference, in particular of naming, and of identity. From a critique of the dominant tendency to assimilate names to descriptions and more generally to treat their reference as a function of their Fregean sense, surprisingly deep and widespread consequences may be drawn. The largely discredited distinction between accidental and essential properties, both of individual things (including people) and of kinds of things, is revived. So is a consequent view of science as what seeks out the essences of natural kinds. Traditional objections to such views are dealt with by sharpening distinctions between epistemic and metaphysical necessity; in particular by the startling admission of necessary a posteriori truths. From these, in particular from identity statements using rigid designators whether of things or of kinds, further remarkable consequences are drawn for the natures of things, of people, and of kinds; strong objections follow, for example to identity versions of materialism as a theory of the mind. This seminal work, to which today's thriving essentialist metaphysics largely owes its impetus, is here published with a substantial new Preface by the author.
Author | : A. A. Rini |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2012-01-19 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1139505513 |
Download The World-Time Parallel Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Is what could have happened but never did as real as what did happen? What did happen, but isn't happening now, happened at another time. Analogously, one can say that what could have happened happens in another possible world. Whatever their views about the reality of such things as possible worlds, philosophers need to take this analogy seriously. Adriane Rini and Max Cresswell exhibit, in an easy step-by-step manner, the logical structure of temporal and modal discourse, and show that every temporal construction has an exact parallel that requires a language that can refer to worlds, and vice versa. They make precise, in a way which can be articulated and tested, the claim that the parallel is at work behind even ordinary talk about time and modality. The book gives metaphysicians a sturdy framework for the investigation of time and modality - one that does not presuppose any particular metaphysical view.
Author | : Paul Horwich |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 019823824X |
Download Meaning Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
What is meaning? Paul Horwich presents an original philosophical theory, demonstrates its richness, and reconciles his theory with a rational view of meaning derived from its use, thereby vindicating his standpoint.
Author | : Tristan Grøtvedt Haze |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 187 |
Release | : 2022-06-16 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1000605787 |
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This book is about the idea that some true statements would have been true no matter how the world had turned out, while others could have been false. It develops and defends a version of the idea that we tell the difference between these two types of truths in part by reflecting on the meanings of words. It has often been thought that modal issues—issues about possibility and necessity—are related to issues about meaning. In this book, the author defends the view that the analysis of meaning is not just a preliminary to answering modal questions in philosophy; it is not merely that before we can find out whether something is possible, we need to get clear on what we are talking about. Rather, clarity about meaning often brings with it answers to modal questions. In service of this view, the author analyzes the notion of necessity and develops ideas about linguistic meaning, applying them to several puzzles and problems in philosophy of language. Meaning and Metaphysical Necessity will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophical logic.
Author | : John Divers |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2006-01-16 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 1134731612 |
Download Possible Worlds Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Up-to-date and comprehensive study of a major topic in philosophy The first critical account of forty years of literature on possible worlds A huge topic in analytic philosophy especially in the past twenty-five yeasr and one of the major problems in philosophy as a whole This is the only book available that will introduce the topic to students in philosophy John Divers has taught possible worlds for many years
Author | : Dan Sperber |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0195141156 |
Download Metarepresentations Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume concerns metarepresentation: the construction and use of representations that represent other representations. It collects studies on the subject by an interdisciplinary group of contributors.