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Philosophy without Ambiguity Jay David Atlas (Professor of Philosophy and Linguistics, Professor of Philosophy and Linguistics, Pomona College and Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California)

Philosophy without Ambiguity By Jay David Atlas (Professor of Philosophy and Linguistics, Professor of Philosophy and Linguistics, Pomona College and Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California)

Summary

Problems which overlap philosophy, cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence are examined in this study which uses linguistic analysis to shed new light on the philosophical and logical problems of meaning, ambiguity, truth, falsity, negation and existence.

Philosophy without Ambiguity Summary

Philosophy without Ambiguity: A Logico-Linguistic Essay by Jay David Atlas (Professor of Philosophy and Linguistics, Professor of Philosophy and Linguistics, Pomona College and Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California)

In this book, a set of problems which overlap philosophy, linguistics, cognitive psychology, and artificial intelligence are examined from the point of view of Chomsky's linguistics. The author uses linguistic analysis to shed new light on the philosophical and logical problems of meaning, ambiguity, truth, falsity, negation and existence. He shows that visual and verbal symbols have ways of meaning in common.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Abstract ideas, abstract art, and abstract language; Ambiguity and the generality of sense; Making new sense of negation, presupposition, and non-existence: A case-study of philosophical linguistics; Understanding utterances: Figuring out what sentences `Portray'; Appendix; Metaphysical ambiguity: Is `Exists' ambiguous?

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NPB9780198244547
9780198244547
0198244541
Philosophy without Ambiguity: A Logico-Linguistic Essay by Jay David Atlas (Professor of Philosophy and Linguistics, Professor of Philosophy and Linguistics, Pomona College and Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California)
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