Truth, Force, and Knowledge in Language: Essays on Semantic and Pragmatic Topics 9783110687538, 9783110687507

This book collects twenty-five of the author's essays, each of which addresses a descriptive or a foundational issu

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Truth, Force, and Knowledge in Language: Essays on Semantic and Pragmatic Topics
9783110687538, 9783110687507

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Semantic externalism is the thesis that the contents of some words and thoughts depend in part on properties external to

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Cognitive Linguistics has given a major impetus to the study of semantics and the lexicon. The present volume brings tog

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If you can't prove something, it is literally senseless - so argues Ayer in this irreverent and electrifying book.

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The claim according to which there is a categorial gap between meaning and saying - between what sentences mean and what

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This book provides a historical insight into the use and meanings of modal verbs in the language of the Early Modern Eng

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The present book continues Rescher’s longstanding practice of publishing groups of philosophical essays that originated

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In literary investigation all evidence is textual, dependent on preservation in material copies. Copies, however, are vu

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The aim of this volume is to investigate three fundamental issues of the new millennium: language, truth and democracy.

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