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The Game of Language Jaakko Hintikka

The Game of Language By Jaakko Hintikka

The Game of Language by Jaakko Hintikka


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Since the first chapter of this book presents an intro duction to the present state of game-theoretical semantics (GTS), there is no point in giving a briefer survey here.

The Game of Language Summary

The Game of Language: Studies in Game-Theoretical Semantics and Its Applications by Jaakko Hintikka

Since the first chapter of this book presents an intro duction to the present state of game-theoretical semantics (GTS), there is no point in giving a briefer survey here. Instead, it may be helpful to indicate what this volume attempts to do. The first chapter gives a short intro duction to GTS and a survey of what is has accomplished. Chapter 2 puts the enterprise of GTS into new philo sophical perspective by relating its basic ideas to Kant's phi losophy of mathematics, space, and time. Chapters 3-6 are samples of GTS's accomplishments in understanding different kinds of semantical phenomena, mostly in natural languages. Beyond presenting results, some of these chapters also have other aims. Chapter 3 relates GTS to an interesting line of logical and foundational studies - the so-called functional interpretations - while chapter 4 leads to certain important methodological theses. Chapter 7 marks an application of GTS in a more philo sophical direction by criticizing the Frege-Russell thesis that words like is are multiply ambiguous. This leads in turn to a criticism of recent logical languages (logical notation), which since Frege have been based on the ambi guity thesis, and also to certain methodological sug gestions. In chapter 8, GTS is shown to have important implications for our understanding of Aristotle's doctrine of categories, while chapter 9 continues my earlier criticism of Chomsky's generative approach to linguistic theorizing.

The Game of Language Reviews

`... required reading for philosophers of language and theoretical linguistics.'
Canadian Philosophical Reviews

About Jaakko Hintikka

Jaakko Hintikka is the author or co-author of thirty volumes and of some 300 scholarly articles in mathematical and philosophical logic, epistemology, language theory, philosophy of science, history of ideas and history of philosophy, including Aristotle, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Peirce, The Bloomsbury Group, Husserl and Wittgenstein. He has also been active in international scholarly organizations, most recently as the First Vice-President of FISP, Vice-President of IIP and Co-Chair of the American Organizing Committee of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal Synthese and the Managing Editor of Synthese Library since 1965.

Table of Contents

1 / Game-Theoretical Semantics: Insights and Prospects.- 2 / Semantical Games and Transcendental Arguments.- 3 / Semantical Games, Subgames, and Functional Interpretations.- 4 / Any Problems - No Problems.- 5 / Temporal Discourse and Semantical Games.- 6 / Definite Descriptions in Game-Theoretical Semantics.- 7 / Is, Semantical Games, and Semantical Relativity.- 8 / Semantical Games and Aristotelian Categories.- 9 / On the Any-Thesis and the Methodology of Linguistics.- 10 / Theories of Truth and Learnable Languages.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.

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NLS9789027719508
9789027719508
9027719500
The Game of Language: Studies in Game-Theoretical Semantics and Its Applications by Jaakko Hintikka
New
Paperback
Springer
1985-09-30
356
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