Aboutness
Autor Stephen Yabloen Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 mai 2014
been made, in library science and information theory, to operationalize the notion. But it has played no real role in philosophical semantics. This is surprising; sentences have aboutness-properties if anything does. Aboutness is the first book to examine through a philosophical lens the role of
subject matter in meaning. A long-standing tradition sees meaning as truth-conditions, to be specified by listing the scenarios in which a sentence is true. Nothing is said about the principle of selection--about what in a scenario gets it onto the list. Subject matter is the missing link here. A
sentence is true because of how matters stand where its subject matter is concerned. Stephen Yablo maintains that this is not just a feature of subject matter, but its essence. One indicates what a sentence is about by mapping out logical space according to its changing ways of being true or false.
The notion of content that results--directed content--is brought to bear on a range of philosophical topics, including ontology, verisimilitude, knowledge, loose talk, assertive content, and philosophical methodology. Written by one of today's leading philosophers, Aboutness represents a major
advance in semantics and the philosophy of language.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780691144955
ISBN-10: 0691144958
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: illustrations
Dimensiuni: 162 x 244 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Princeton University Press
ISBN-10: 0691144958
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: illustrations
Dimensiuni: 162 x 244 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Princeton University Press