Truth without Predication
Subtitle: The Role of Placing in the Existential There-Sentence
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Feb 26, 2015
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9781137483287
Description: Truth without Predication contains an original analysis of the existential there-sentence from a philosophical-linguistic perspective. At its core is the claim that there-sentences' form is distinct from that of ordinary subject predicate sentences, and that this fundamental difference explains the construction's unusual grammatical and discourse properties. Taking as a point of departure a suggestion made in Strawson's Individuals, this book explores the idea that it is possible to say something true by correctly 'placing' a 'feature', but without involving predication as normally understood.
Notes: Source title: Truth without Predication: The Role of Placing in the Existential There-Sentence (Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition)