Reflections on Meaning
by
Paul Horwich
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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
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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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