Ways of meaning
Subtitle: an introduction to philosophy of language
By: Mark de Bretton Platts.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: Language and languages -- Philosophy.
Description: The philosophy of language is not isolated philosophical discipline of merely technical interest to other philosophers. Rather, as Mark Platts shows, it can help to solve traditional problems in other areas of philosophy, such as metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics. Ways of Meaning provides a clear, comprehensive introduction to such issues at the forefront of philosophy.

Assuming only minimum knowledge of elementary formal logic, the book shows how taking truth as the central notion in the theory of meaning can clarify the relations between language, reality, and knowledge, and thus illuminate the nature of each.

This second edition of the book contains a new chapter on the notions of natural-kind words and natural kinds. Unlike other discussions of the subject, this one places the semantic issues involved in the context of questions about the relations between knowing subjects and known objects. The author has also added a bibliography of further readings published since the first edition appeared in 1979.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-299) and index.
"A Bradford book."