Reflections on Meaning

Name: Reflections on Meaning
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780199251247
Price: 8500 KES
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ISBN: 9780199251247

by Paul Horwich

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 019925124X

ISBN-13 9780199251247

Publisher Oxford University Press

Imprint Oxford University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Nov 10th, 2005

Print length 248 Pages

Weight 319 grams

Dimensions 21.60 x 13.90 x 1.50 cms

Product Classification: Philosophy of language Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge

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Explains how noises, marks, gestures, and mental symbols come to mean what they do, to stand for certain things, to be true or false of reality. The meaning of a term is nothing more than its use. This text is presented as a continuous argument, focused on articulating and developing a different conception of language.

Paul Horwich, one of the world''s most distinguished philosophers, develops in this book his highly original deflationary conception of language. His 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 an innovative development of Wittgenstein''s idea that the meaning of a term is nothing more than its use.

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