
Philosophy without Ambiguity
A Logico-Linguistic Essay
Jay David Atlas(Author)
Clarendon Press
Published on 17. August 1989
Book
Hardback
198 pages
978-0-19-824454-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
390 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-824454-7 (9780198244547)
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Person
Author
Professor of Philosophy and LinguisticsProfessor of Philosophy and Linguistics, Pomona College and Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California
Content
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?