Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation

✍ Scribed by Donald Davidson

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 315
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The eighteen essays in this collection address the question of what it is for words to mean what they do. Davidson covers such topics as the relation between theories of truth and theories of meaning, translation, quotation, belief, radical interpretation, reference, metaphor, and communication.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
......Page 1
Copyright
......Page 7
Contents
......Page 10
Provenance of Essays
......Page 12
Introduction
......Page 16
Essay 1: Theories of Meaning and Learnable Languages
......Page 26
Essay 2: Truth and Meaning
......Page 40
Essay 3: True to the Facts
......Page 60
Essay 4: Semantics for Natural Languages
......Page 78
Essay 5: In Defence of Convention T
......Page 88
Essay 6: Quotation
......Page 102
Essay 7: On Saying
That......Page 116
Essay 8: Moods and Performances
......Page 132
Essay 9: Radical Interpretation
......Page 148
Essay 10: Belief and the Basis of Meaning
......Page 164
Essay 11: Thought and Talk
......Page 178
Essay 12: Reply to Foster
......Page 194
Essay 13: On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme
......Page 206
Essay 14: The Method of Truth in Metaphysics
......Page 222
Essay 15: Reality without Reference
......Page 238
Essay 16: The Inscrutability of Reference
......Page 250
Essay 17: What Metaphors Mean
......Page 268
Essay 18: Communication and Convention
......Page 288
Bibliographical References
......Page 304
Index
......Page 312