Reflections on Meaning

✍ Scribed by Paul Horwich

Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Leaves: 247
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

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.

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