How to understand language : a philosophical inquiry

✍ Scribed by Bernhard Weiss

Publisher: Acumen
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Leaves: 289
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Content: Preface 1. The Puzzles of Language 2. The Starting Point for Analysis 3. Analysing Sentence Meaning 4. Analysing Synonymy 5. Radical Translation 6. The Structure of a Theory of Meaning 7. Radical Interpretation 8. Linguistic Norms, Communication and Radical Interpretation 9. Linguistic Normativity 10. Radical or Robust? 11. Language and Community 12. Rules and Privacy: The Problem 13. Rules and Privacy: The Solution? 14. Truth-conditions vs Use-conditions Notes Bibliography Index

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