Seas of Language
1st Edition
Published on 4. November 1993
503 pages
978-0-19-151956-7 (ISBN)
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Michael Dummett is one of the most important and influential of contemporary philosophers, this book covers his work in the closely related fields of metaphysics and the philosophy of language.
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Content
- Cover
- The Seas of Language
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Preface
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1. What is a Theory of Meaning? (I)
- 2. What is a Theory of Meaning? (II)
- 3. What do I know when I Know a Language?
- 4. What does the Appeal to Use Do for the Theory of Meaning?
- 5. Language and Truth
- 6. Truth and Meaning
- 7. Language and Communication
- 8. The Source of the Concept of Truth
- 9. Mood, Force, and Convention
- 10. Frege and Husserl on Reference
- 11. Realism
- 12. Existence
- 13. Does Quantification Involve Identity?
- 14. Could there be Unicorns?
- 15. Causal Loops
- 16. Common Sense and Physics
- 17. Testimony and Memory
- 18. What is Mathematics About?
- 19. Wittgenstein on Necessity: Some Reflections
- 20. Realism and Anti-Realism
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
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