The Seas of Language
Sir Michael Dummett(Author)
Clarendon Press
Published on 1. November 1993
Book
Hardback
502 pages
978-0-19-824011-2 (ISBN)
Description
This volume contains 20 essays that have not appeared in Michael Dummett's previous collections of philosophical essays. It covers related fields of metaphysics and the philosophy of language. Other works by Michael Dummett include "Frege: Philosophy and Language", "Elements of Intuitionism", "Truth and Other Enigmas", "The Interpretation of Frege's Philosophy", "Frege and Other Philosophers", "The Logical Basis of Metaphysics" and "Frege: Philosophy of Mathematics".
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
1 line drawing, index
ISBN-13
978-0-19-824011-2 (9780198240112)
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Seas of Language
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Content
What is the theory of meaning (I); what is the theory of meaning (II); what do I know when I know a language?; what does the appeal to use do for the theory of meaning?; language and truth; truth and meaning; language and communication; the source of the concept of truth; mood, force and convention; Frege and Husserl on reference; realism; existence; does quantification involve identity?; could there be unicorns?; causal loops; common sense and physics; testimony and memory; what is mathematics about?; Wittgenstein on necessity - some reflections; realism and anti-realism.