Conjoining Meanings Semantics Without Truth Values |
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| Author:
| Pietroski, Paul M. |
| Series title: | Context and Content Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-881272-2 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2018 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $84.00 |
Book Description:
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Paul M. Pietroski presents an ambitious new account of human languages as generative procedures that respect substantive constraints. He argues that meanings are neither concepts nor extensions, and sentences do not have truth conditions; meanings are composable instructions for how to access and assemble concepts of a special sort.
Paul M. Pietroski presents an ambitious new account of human languages as generative procedures that respect substantive constraints. He argues that meanings are neither concepts nor extensions, and sentences do not have truth conditions; meanings are composable instructions for how to access and assemble concepts of a special sort.