Reflections on Meaning
Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press ; (2005)
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Paul Horwich
New York University
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Paul Horwich's main aim in Reflections on Meaning is to explain how mere noises, marks, gestures, and mental symbols are able to capture the world--that is, how words and sentences (in whatever medium) come to mean what they do, to stand for certain things, to be true or false of reality. His answer is a groundbreaking development of Wittgenstein's idea that the meaning of a term is nothing more than its use. While the chapters here have appeared as individual essays, Horwich has edited them to make a continuous argument, focused on articulating and developing an important new conception of language.
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| Keywords | Meaning (Philosophy |
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| Reprint years | 2006 |
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| Call number | B105.M4.H67 2005 |
| ISBN(s) | 9780199251254 0199251258 019925124X 9780199251247 |
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