Reflections on meaning
By: Paul Horwich.
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford; New York : Oxford University Press
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: Meaning (Philosophy)
Description: "The broad aim of this work is to explain how mere noises, marks, gestures, and mental/neural symbols are able to capture the world - that is, how words and sentences (in whatever medium) come to mean what they do, to stand for certain things, to be true or false of reality."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The space of issues and options; title: A use theory of meaning; title: The pseudo-problem of error; title: The sharpness of vague terms; title: Norms of truth and meaning; title: Meaning constitution and epistemic rationality; title: Meaning and its place in the faculty of language; title: Deflating compositionality.