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1 online resource (384 p.) |
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Routledge Revivals Ser |
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Routledge Revivals Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- I: An Eighteenth-Century Innovation in the Concept of Meaning -- 1 Can Meanings Change? -- 2 Meanings as Unchangeable Properties -- 3 Meanings as Changeable Properties -- 4 Meanings as Changing Continuants -- II: Meanings Conceived as What Words Have in a Language or Culture -- 5 De facto and de jure Theories of Meaning -- 6 The Implications of Changeability -- 7 Meanings in a Language -- 8 Meanings in a Culture -- 9 Can a Language Be a Prison? |
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III: Meanings Conceived as Topics for Philosophical Investigation -- 10 What Room is there for a Specifically Philosophical Study of Meanings? -- 11 The Doctrine of Logical Grammar -- 12 The Critique of Good Sense -- IV: The Concept of Meaning in the Problem of Universals -- 13 The Problem Conceived as Insoluble -- 14 The Problem Conceived as Soluble -- 15 How Should the Problem be Conceived? -- V: Meanings Conceived as What are Understood in an Act of Communication -- 16 Meanings, Uses and Subsistent Entities -- 17 The Meaning of a Remark in a Particular Language |
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18 The Meaning of a Remark in Any Language -- 19 Do Propositions Exist? -- VI: Meaning and the a Priori -- 20 Are All a Priori Truths Analytic? -- 21 Is Analytic Truth a Matter of Degree? -- 22 Can Meaning be the Method of Verification? -- VII: Meaning and the Law of Extensionality -- 23 The Problem of Non-Extensional Discourse -- 24 Why is Frege's Distinction Insufficient? -- 25 The Problem of Non-Extensionality as a Problem About Statement-Forming Operators on Sayings -- 26 The Problem of Semantical Antinomies in the Systematized Logic of Statements About Statements |
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27 An Extensional Formalization of Informally Non-Extensional Contexts -- 28 A Formalization for the General Logic of Non-Assertive Sayings -- 29 The Problem of Quantification into Non-Extensional Contexts -- 30 A Non-Extensional Formalization of Informally Non-Extensional Contexts -- VIII: Meanings Conceived as Topics for Formal-Logical Investigation -- 31 What do Logical Formulas Represent? -- 32 How is Logical Theory Justified? -- 33 Does Logic Deny the Possibility of an Empty Universe? -- IX: Meaning and Vagueness -- 34 Arguments from Universal Vagueness to Universal Indeterminacy |
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35 The Truism of Universal Vagueness -- 36 The Fallacy of Universal Indeterminacy -- X: The Concept of Meaning in the Problem of Natural Necessity -- 37 Is There a Satisfactory Theory of Natural Necessity? -- 38 Natural Necessity Conceived as a Form of a Priori Truth -- 39 Inductive Confirmation Conceived as the Precisification of Hypotheses -- 40 Inductive Inconclusiveness as a Corollary of Change-Ability of Meaning -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Index |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000384482 |
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1000384489 |
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