The True and the False
The Domain of the Pragmatic
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 1981
VI, 165 pages
978-90-272-8083-1 (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.
More details
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
01/1981
John Benjamins Publishing Co
€72.08
Shipment within 10-15 days
Content
- THE TRUE AND THE FALSE: THE DOMAIN OF THE PRAGMATIC
- Editorial page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- PREFACE
- PART I: THE BORDER WITH SEMANTICS
- PART II: A DEFINITION OF TRUTH
- PART III: SOME OBJECTIONS
- PART IV: THE RELATIVITY OF TRUTH
- FOOTNOTES
- REFERENCES
