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Book Synopsis Truth & Denotation by : R. M. Martin
Download or read book Truth & Denotation written by R. M. Martin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-05 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1958. A study in the logical foundations of modern theoretical semantics, this book is concerned with notions of designation and consistency as well as denotation and truth. It presents several semantical theories, each of which with what were new concepts or treatments from the author. Talking at a time when semantical theory was gained great ground, this book also looks at the methodology of the sciences and the semantics of scientific language alongside analysis of meaning and expression. It is influenced by the writings of Carnap, Church, Frege, Goodman, Quine, Russell and Tarski.
Book Synopsis Truth and Denotation by : Martin R. M.
Download or read book Truth and Denotation written by Martin R. M. and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Truth and Denotation by : R. M. Martin
Download or read book Truth and Denotation written by R. M. Martin and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Truth and Denotation by : R. M. Martin
Download or read book Truth and Denotation written by R. M. Martin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Truth and Denotation: A Study in Semantical Theory Under semantics are often included theories concerned with the analysis of meaning at the common - sense level, with meaning and expression in literature and the arts, and even with schemes aimed at the betterment of the world's social, political, and economic ills! These kinds of theories, some of them of genuine interest, usually rest upon unanalyzed foundations. Their root ideas or concepts are often not clear, nor have their basic assumptions undergone logical analysis. Such theories seem to presuppose something more basic by way of logical substructure. There is urgent need for an approach to problems of a general semantical nature from a secure theoretical basis. But the semantics of this book is concerned solely with denota tion and allied notions, and the discussion is therefore somewhat narrower, more technical, and more exact than is usual in philosoph ical treatises of a more general kind. Often semantics is taken as containing also a theory of meaning or of intension. The intension of a term is then distinguished from the object for which it stands somewhat as, traditionally, the connota tion of a term has been distinguished from its denotation. In this book we shall be occupied only with semantical theories of extension or denotation, which are usually presupposed by, or contained in, systematic theories of intension in one way or another. Even if we confine ourselves to theories of denotation or extension, we have a subject of great richness and fascination. This becomes especially evident if one reflects upon the intimate connection between denota tion and the semantical concept of truth. One of the important achievements of modern semantics is to have provided a rigorous, logico-mathematical analysis of the truth-concept of formalized language-systems of certain kinds. Truth, denotation, and other semantical notions are closely interrelated. A denotational semantics of sufficient power must contain a semantical truth-concept also. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Book Synopsis Truth & Denotation by : Richard Milton Martin (logicien).)
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Book Synopsis On Types, Denotation, and Truth by : Richard Milton Martin
Download or read book On Types, Denotation, and Truth written by Richard Milton Martin and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Semantic Singularities by : Keith Simmons
Download or read book Semantic Singularities written by Keith Simmons and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to provide a solution to the semantic paradoxes. It argues for a unified solution to the paradoxes generated by our concepts of denotation, predicate extension, and truth. The solution makes two main claims. The first is that our semantic expressions 'denotes', 'extension' and 'true' are context-sensitive. The second, inspired by a brief, tantalizing remark of Godel's, is that these expressions are significant everywhere except for certain singularities, in analogy with division by zero. A formal theory of singularities is presented and applied to a wide variety of versions of the definability paradoxes, Russell's paradox, and the Liar paradox. Keith Simmons argues that the singularity theory satisfies the following desiderata: it recognizes that the proper setting of the semantic paradoxes is natural language, not regimented formal languages; it minimizes any revision to our semantic concepts; it respects as far as possible Tarski's intuition that natural languages are universal; it responds adequately to the threat of revenge paradoxes; and it preserves classical logic and semantics. Simmons draws out the consequences of the singularity theory for deflationary views of our semantic concepts, and concludes that if we accept the singularity theory, we must reject deflationism.
Book Synopsis Truth as One and Many by : Michael P. Lynch
Download or read book Truth as One and Many written by Michael P. Lynch and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is truth? Michael Lynch defends a bold new answer to this question. Traditional theories of truth hold that truth has only a single uniform nature. All truths are true in the same way. More recent deflationary theories claim that truth has no nature at all; the concept of truth is of no real philosophical importance. In this concise and clearly written book, Lynch argues that we should reject both these extremes and hold that truth is a functional property. To understand truth we must understand what it does, its function in our cognitive economy. Once we understand that, we'll see that this function can be performed in more than one way. And that in turn opens the door to an appealing pluralism: beliefs about the concrete physical world needn't be true in the same way as our thoughts about matters — like morality — where the human stain is deepest.
Download or read book Theories of Truth written by Paul Horwich and published by Dartmouth Publishing Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines the nature of truth, asking fundamental questions: is truth the proper target of scientific inquiry and hence a basic notion of epistemology; should the meaning of a sentence be explained in terms of the circumstances that would render it true; and, can ethical claims be true?
Book Synopsis Donald Davidson on Truth, Meaning, and the Mental by : Gerhard Preyer
Download or read book Donald Davidson on Truth, Meaning, and the Mental written by Gerhard Preyer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a reappraisal of Donald Davidson's influential philosophy of thought, meaning, and language, Twelve specially written essays by leading philosophers in the field illuminate a range of themes and problems relating to these subjects, and engage in particular with Ernie Lepore and Kirk Ludwig's interpretation of Davidson's thought.
Book Synopsis Subjectivity and Perspective in Truth-theoretic Semantics by : Peter Lasersohn
Download or read book Subjectivity and Perspective in Truth-theoretic Semantics written by Peter Lasersohn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores linguistic and philosophical issues presented by sentences expressing personal taste, such as Roller coasters are fun, and examines how truth-theoretic semantics can account for expressions of this type. It provides a detailed and explicit formal grammar paired with semantic analysis and pragmatic theory.
Book Synopsis Understanding Truth by : Scott Soames
Download or read book Understanding Truth written by Scott Soames and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of this text explores the notion of truth and its role in our ordinary thought, as well as in logical, philosophical and scientific theories.
Book Synopsis Truth and Its Nature (if Any) by : J. Peregrin
Download or read book Truth and Its Nature (if Any) written by J. Peregrin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question how to turn the principles implicitly governing the concept of truth into an explicit definition (or explication) of the concept hence coalesced with the question how to get a finite grip on the infinity of T-sentences. Tarski's famous and ingenious move was to introduce a new concept, satisfaction, which could be, on the one hand, recursively defined, and which, on the other hand, straightforwardly yielded an explication of truth. A surprising 'by-product' of Tarski's effort to bring truth under control was the breathtaking finding that truth is in a precisely defined sense ineffable, that no non trivial language can contain a truth-predicate which would be adequate for the very 4 language . This implied that truth (and consequently semantic concepts to which truth appeared to be reducible) proved itself to be strangely 'language-dependent': we can have a concept of truth-in-L for any language L, but we cannot have a concept of truth applicable to every language. In a sense, this means, as Quine (1969, p. 68) put it, that truth belongs to "transcendental metaphysics", and Tarski's 'scientific' investigations seem to lead us back towards a surprising proximity of some more traditional philosophical views on truth. 3. TARSKI'S THEORY AS A PARADIGM So far Tarski himself. Subsequent philosophers then had to find out what his considerations of the concept of truth really mean and what are their consequences; and this now seems to be an almost interminable task.
Book Synopsis Truth, Vagueness, and Paradox by : Vann McGee
Download or read book Truth, Vagueness, and Paradox written by Vann McGee and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Awarded the 1988 Johnsonian Prize in Philosophy. Published with the aid of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Book Synopsis Truth: A Contemporary Reader by : Douglas Edwards
Download or read book Truth: A Contemporary Reader written by Douglas Edwards and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time Truth: A Contemporary Reader brings together essays that have shaped two aspects of a fundamental philosophical topic: the nature of truth and the value of truth. Featuring 22 essays, this up-to-date reader includes seminal work by leading figures in contemporary analytic philosophy. It charts the development of the central 'grand proposals' about the nature of truth, and subsequently how their influence gradually diminished in face of new theories developed in the 20th and 21st-centuries. The reader also demonstrates how truth is often taken to be valuable in various ways, in particular as the norm of correctness for belief and assertion, and the relationship between truth and other epistemic values. With introductory overviews to each group of related papers complemented by guides to further reading, this reader introduces the central debates, familiarizes students with the most important work in the field and covers pivotal theories of truth including: - correspondence theories - coherentism, pragmatism, verificationism - deflationary, primitivist, and pluralist theories Moreover, by showing how thoughts about truth and value bear heavily on one another, Truth: A Contemporary Reader provides new opportunities for understanding and advancing the link between these central topics. This is an essential collection for anyone studying or working in metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of language today.
Book Synopsis A Prosentential Theory of Truth by : Dorothy Grover
Download or read book A Prosentential Theory of Truth written by Dorothy Grover and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a number of influential articles published since 1972, Dorothy Grover has developed the prosentential theory of truth. Brought together and published with a new introduction, these essays are even more impressive as a group than they were as single contributions to philosophy and linguistics. Denying that truth has an explanatory role, the prosentential theory does not address traditional truth issues like belief, meaning, and justification. Instead, it focuses on the grammatical role of the truth predicate and asserts that "it is true" is a prosentence, functioning much as a pronoun does. Grover defends the theory by indicating how it can handle notorious paradoxes like the Liar, as well as by analyzing some English truth-usages. The introduction to the volume surveys traditional theories of truth, including correspondence, pragmatic, and coherence theories. It discusses the essays to come and, finally, considers the implications of the prosentential theory for other theories. Despite the fact that the prosentential theory dismisses the "nature of truth" as a red herring, Grover shows that there are important aspects of traditional truth theories that prosentential theorists have the option of endorsing. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
