Semantics, Metasemantics, Aboutness
Oxford University Press

Semantics, Metasemantics, Aboutness

Subjects: Language, Philosophy of language
ISBN13: 9780198792147
Published: 23 Feb 2017

Format - Hardback
By Simchen, Ori

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Semantics, Metasemantics, Aboutness

Regular price A$137.90
Sale price A$137.90 Regular price A$142.16
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Semantics aims to describe the significance (or meaning) of linguistic expressions in a systematic way. Metasemantics, or foundational semantics, asks how expressions gain their significance in the first place - what makes it the case that expressions mean what they do. Metasemantics has recently been discussed extensively by philosophers of language, philosophers of mind, and philosophically minded linguists and psychologists. A large concern
is semantic indeterminacy, the worry that there is no fact of the matter as to the semantic significance of our words. Ori Simchen offers a distinctly metasemantic strategy to counter this threat.
Semantics, Metasemantics, Aboutness is the first book-length treatment of metasemantics and its relation to the thriving research program of truth-conditional semantics.

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