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Reflections on Meaning Paul Horwich (Graduate Center, City University of New York)

Reflections on Meaning By Paul Horwich (Graduate Center, City University of New York)

Reflections on Meaning by Paul Horwich (Graduate Center, City University of New York)

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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.

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Reflections on Meaning by Paul Horwich (Graduate Center, City University of New York)

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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This lucid, closely argued, and stimulating book offers Horwich's latest formulation and defence of his Use Theory of Meaning . . . there is a great deal of interesting and nuanced argument on almost every page of this thought-provoking book, including detailed responses to important semantic theorists such as Chomsky, Davidson, Dummett, Fodor, Grice, Kripke, Putnam, and Quine. For anyone interested in the prospects for a use-based theory of meaning, or a naturalistic reduction of semantics, or who wants a clear sense of current issues at the cutting-edge of philosophy of language, Horwich's book is required reading. * David Macarthur, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *

Table of Contents

Preface ; 1. The Space of Issues and Options ; 2. A Use Theory of Meaning ; 3. The Pseudo-Problem of Error ; 4. The Sharpness of Vague Terms ; 5. Norms of Truth and Meaning ; 6. Meaning Constitution and Epistemic Rationality ; 7. Meaning and its Place in the Faculty of Language ; 8. Deflating Compositionality

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NLS9780199251247
9780199251247
019925124X
Reflections on Meaning by Paul Horwich (Graduate Center, City University of New York)
Paul Horwich (Graduate Center, City University of New York)
New
Paperback
Oxford University Press
2005-11-10
248
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