The Diversity of Meaning

ISBN-13: 9780367771997 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 380 str.

L. Jonathan Cohen

Opis

First published in 1962, The Diversity of Meaning was written to provide a more constructive criticism of the philosophy of ordinary language than the more destructive approach that it was commonly subjected to at the time of publication.

Spis treści

Preface; 1: An Eighteenth-Century Innovation in the Concept of Meaning; 2: Meanings Conceived as what Words have in a Language or Culture; 3: Meanings Conceived as Topics for Philosophical Investigation; 4: The Concept of Meaning in the Problem of Univerals; 5: Meanings Conceived as what are Understood in an Act of Communication; 6: Meaning and the a Priori; 7: Meaning and the Law of Extensionality; 8: Meanings Conceived as Topics for Formal-Logical Investigation; 9: Meaning and Vagueness; 10: The Concept of Meaning in the Problem of Natural Necessity; Appendix A; Appendix B; Index

O autorze

L. Jonathan Cohen