The Grammar of Meaning
Subtitle: Normativity and Semantic Discourse (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 13, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780521583008
Subjects: Philosophy Of Language; Semantics (meaning); Social & political philosophy; Philosophy; Semantics; Language Arts & Disciplines; History & Surveys - General; Philosophy / General; Philosophy / History, Criticism, Surveys; Language and languages; Meaning (Philosophy); Norm (Philosophy)
First sentence: One of Quine's most important methodological contributions to the philosophy of language has been to focus the theory of meaning on the activity of the translator, on a consideration of the data she has to go on and the criteria for a correct translation.