
The True and the False
The Domain of the Pragmatic
Charles Travis(Author)
John Benjamins Publishing Co
Published on 1. January 1981
Book
Paperback/Softback
165 pages
978-90-272-2512-2 (ISBN)
Description
Pragmatics often begins by supposing that specifying and describing truth bearers is a proper task for semantics. The main thrust of the present work is to show why truth and truth bearers lie essentially beyond the descriptive reach of semantics, and to outline a theory of truth bearers as a proper and fundamental task for pragmatics. It is also common for treatments, or definitions of truth to be confused with substantive theories about truth bearers, with a variety of unfortunate results. This monograph suggests a way of separating these tasks, and shows how many problems are thus avoided. Some emphasis is placed on the generally universal - i.e., nonlanguage-specific - character of pragmatic topics, and of truth. These issues occasion a discussion of semantic paradoxes, and of several relativities in the notion of truth.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 160 mm
Weight
200 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-2512-2 (9789027225122)
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Content
1. Preface; 2. Part 1: The Border with Semantics; 3. Part 2: A Definition of Truth; 4. Part 3: Some Objections; 5. Part 4: The Relativity of Truth; 6. Footnotes; 7. References