Metaphysics deals with truth, existence, goodness, change, time, causation, thinking and saying. We feel we grasp them, but when we try to say what they are we become tongue-tied and attempts to explain them scientifically can be deeply unsatisfying. aMetaphysics and Grammar arg…
"In this book, Charles Taylor explains linguistic holism to people who believe language needs to be thought of as bits of information. According to one influential view of language, one that originated with Hobbes, Locke, and Condillac, language serves to encode information and …
Proper Names explores the aims and scope of the Millian approach to the semantics of proper names. Stefano Predelli covers the core semantic aspects of Millianism, and develops them against the background of an independently motivated pre-semantic picture, grounded on the distin…
Logic in linguistics
by Allwood, Jens, Dahl, Östen, Andersson, Lars-Gunnar
fromCambridge textbooks in linguistics
Logic in linguistics
by Allwood, Jens, Dahl, Östen, Andersson, Lars-Gunnar
fromCambridge textbooks in linguistics