Language in the World : A Philosophical Enquiry

Name: Language in the World
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521046213
Price: 6100 KES
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ISBN: 9780521046213

by M. J. Cresswell

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Cambridge Studies in Philosophy

ISBN-10 0521046211

ISBN-13 9780521046213

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Nov 12th, 2007

Print length 172 Pages

Weight 239 grams

Dimensions 21.60 x 14.10 x 1.00 cms

Product Classification: Philosophy of language Social & political philosophy Social and political philosophy

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What makes the words we speak mean what they do? M. J. Cresswell answers this question in a book-length examination of the connection between meaning and linguistic behaviour from the point of view of possible-worlds semantics.

What makes the words we speak mean what they do? Possible-worlds semantics articulates the view that the meanings of words contribute to determining, for each sentence, which possible worlds would make the sentence true, and which would make it false. M. J. Cresswell argues that the non-semantic facts on which such semantic facts supervene are facts about the causal interactions between the linguistic behaviour of speakers and the facts in the world that they are speaking about, and that the kind of causation involved is best analysed using David Lewis's account of causation in terms of counterfactuals. Although philosophers have worked on the question of the connection between meaning and linguistic behaviour, it has mostly been without regard to the work done in possible-world semantics and Language in the World is a book-length examination of this problem.

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