Two-Dimensional Semantics PDF
Edited by Manuel Garcia-Carpintero, Josep Macia
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According to two-dimensional semantics, the meaning of an expression involves two different "dimensions": one dimension involves reference and truth-conditions of a familiar sort, while the other dimension involves the way that reference and truth-conditions depend on the external world (for example, reference and truth-conditions might be held to depend on which individuals and substances are present in the world, or on which linguistic conventions are in place).
Anumber of different two-dimensional frameworks have been developed, and these have been applied to a number of fundamental problems in philosophy: the nature of communication, the relation between the necessary and the a priori, the role of context in assertion, Frege's distinction between sense andreference, the contents of thought, and the mind-body problem. Manuel Garcia-Carpintero and Josep Macia present a selection of new essays by an outstanding international team, shedding fresh light both on foundational issues regarding two-dimensional semantics and on its specific applications.
The volume will be the starting-point for future work on this approach to issues in philosophy of language, epistemology, and metaphysics.
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- Publisher:Clarendon Press
- Publication Date:06/04/2006
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- Publisher:Clarendon Press
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- ISBN:9780191533976
