Must We Mean What We Say?
Subtitle: A Book of Essays
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 4, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780521821889
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; Literary theory; Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present; Philosophy, Modern; Philosophy; History & Surveys - General; Philosophy / General; Logic
First sentence: That what we ordinarily say and men have a direct and deep control over what we can philosophically say and mean is an idea which many philosophers find oppressive.