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Paul Horwich's main aim in Reflections on Meaning is to explain how mere noises, marks, gestures, and mental 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. His answer is a groundbreaking development of Wittgenstein's idea that the meaning of a term is nothing more than its use. While the chapters here have appeared as individual essays, Horwich has edited them to make a continuous argument, focused on articulating and developing an important new conception of language.
Contents......Page 10
Preface......Page 6
1. The Space of Issues and Options......Page 12
2. A Use Theory of Meaning......Page 37
3. The Pseudo-Problem of Error......Page 74
4. The Sharpness of Vague Terms......Page 96
5. Norms of Truth and Meaning......Page 115
6. Meaning Constitution and Epistemic Rationality......Page 145
7. Meaning and its Place in the Language Faculty......Page 185
8. Deflating Compositionality......Page 209
Bibliography......Page 234
Provenance of the Chapters......Page 242
E......Page 244
L......Page 245
R......Page 246
W......Page 247
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