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Overview
Semantics aims to describe the significance (or meaning) of linguistic expressions in a systematic way. Metasemantics, or foundational semantics, asks how expressions gain their significance in the first place - what makes it the case that expressions mean what they do.
Metasemantics has recently been discussed extensively by philosophers of language, philosophers of mind, and philosophically minded linguists and psychologists. A large concern is semantic indeterminacy, the worry that there is no fact of the matter as to the semantic significance of our words. Ori Simchen offers a distinctly metasemantic strategy to counter this threat. Semantics, Metasemantics, Aboutness is the first book-length treatment of metasemantics and its relation to the thriving research program of truth-conditional semantics.This item is Non-Returnable
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- ISBN-13: 9780198792147
- ISBN-10: 019879214X
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publish Date: April 2017
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.75 pounds
- Page Count: 178
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