Occasion-Sensitivity
Subtitle: Selected Essays
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: April 7, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780199230334
Subjects: Philosophy of language; Epistemology; Mind & Body; Philosophy / Mind & Body; Philosophy; Language and languages; Semantics (Philosophy); Truth
Description: Charles Travis presents a series of essays in which he has developed his distinctive view of the relation of thought to language. He argues that there are varying conditions of correctness which determine whether words express a given concept, and thus that meaning does not determine truth conditions.