To clarify and facilitate our inquiries we need a theory of truth predicationthat applies both to sentences that we ourselves are using and to sentences used by other speakers and at other times. Gary Ebbs presents a new conception of words and shows how to use it to define a truth predicate that directly applies to all these kinds of sentences. INDICE: Introduction; 1: Regimentation; 2: The Tarski-Quine thesis; 3: Theintersubjectivity constraint; 4: How to think about words; 5: Learning from others, interpretation, and charity; 6: A puzzle about sameness of satisfactionacross time; 7: Sense and partial extension; 8: The puzzle diagnosed and dissolved; 9: Applications and consequences
- ISBN: 978-0-19-969226-2
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 352
- Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés