Semantics And Truth

Author : Jan Woleński
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030245368

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Semantics and Truth by Jan Woleński Pdf

The book provides a historical (with an outline of the history of the concept of truth from antiquity to our time) and systematic exposition of the semantic theory of truth formulated by Alfred Tarski in the 1930s. This theory became famous very soon and inspired logicians and philosophers. It has two different, but interconnected aspects: formal-logical and philosophical. The book deals with both, but it is intended mostly as a philosophical monograph. It explains Tarski’s motivation and presents discussions about his ideas (pro and contra) as well as points out various applications of the semantic theory of truth to philosophical problems (truth-criteria, realism and anti-realism, future contingents or the concept of correspondence between language and reality).

Author : Ernest Lepore,Kirk Ludwig
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191537493

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Donald Davidson's Truth-Theoretic Semantics by Ernest Lepore,Kirk Ludwig Pdf

Ernest Lepore and Kirk Ludwig examine the foundations and applications of Davidson's influential program of truth-theoretic semantics for natural languages. The program uses an axiomatic truth theory for a language, which meets certain constraints, to serve the goals of a compositional meaning theory. Lepore and Ludwig explain and clarify the motivations for the approach, and then consider how to apply the framework to a range of important natural language constructions, including quantifiers, proper names, indexicals, simple and complex demonstratives, quotation, adjectives and adverbs, the simple and perfect tenses, temporal adverbials and temporal quantifiers, tense in sentential complement clauses, attitude and indirect discourse reports, and the problem of interrogative and imperative sentences. They not only discuss Davidson's own contributions to these subjects but consider criticisms, developments, and alternatives as well. They conclude with a discussion of logical form in natural language in light of the approach, the role of the concept of truth in the program, and Davidson's view of it. Anyone working on meaning will find this book invaluable.

Author : Paul M. Pietroski
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198812722

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Conjoining Meanings by Paul M. Pietroski Pdf

Paul M. Pietroski presents an ambitious new account of human languages as generative procedures that respect substantive constraints. He argues that meanings are neither concepts nor extensions, and sentences do not have truth conditions; meanings are composable instructions for how to access and assemble concepts of a special sort.

Author : Gareth Evans,John McDowell,John Henry McDowell
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 019825007X

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Truth and Meaning by Gareth Evans,John McDowell,John Henry McDowell Pdf

Truth and Meaning is a classic collection of original essays on fundamental questions in the philosophy of language. It was first published in 1976, and has remained essential reading in this area ever since; this is its first appearance in paperback. The contributors include leading figuresin late twentieth-century philosophy, such as Donald Davidson, Saul Kripke, P. F. Strawson, and Michael Dummett. Most of the papers are not available elsewhere.

Author : Arthur Pap
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015005056893

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Semantics and Necessary Truth by Arthur Pap Pdf

Author : Hugues Leblanc
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Logic
ISBN : UCAL:$B216217

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Truth-value Semantics by Hugues Leblanc Pdf

Author : Claudia Maienborn,Klaus Heusinger,Paul Portner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110589245

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Semantics - Theories by Claudia Maienborn,Klaus Heusinger,Paul Portner Pdf

Now in paperback for the first time since its original publication, the material gathered here is perfect for anyone who needs a detailed and accessible introduction to the important semantic theories. Designed for a wide audience, it will be of great value to linguists, cognitive scientists, philosophers, and computer scientists working on natural language. The book covers theories of lexical semantics, cognitively oriented approaches to semantics, compositional theories of sentence semantics, and discourse semantics. This clear, elegant explanation of the key theories in semantics research is essential reading for anyone working in the area.

Author : Andreas Nauhardt
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783640468003

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Logic: Sentence Relations and Truth by Andreas Nauhardt Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1, Martin Luther University (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Hauptseminar 'Semantics', language: English, abstract: According to Galileo Galilei "all truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." Proving the truth values of sentences has been of peculiar interest for thousands of years and philosophers as well as mathematicians worldwide have tried to grasp this enormously complex matter. The intricacy of truth even begins with the definition of the object. Even Alfred Tarski, a Polish-American mathematician and one of the greatest logicians of the twentieth century, stated that the main problem is a satisfactory definition of truth. Obviously, discovering the truth of statements is a rather difficult task to undertake. Howsoever, in this paper we illustrate various semantic relations and theories as well as logical tools which help to establish the truth.

Author : Gareth Evans,John McDowell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036506629

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Truth and Meaning by Gareth Evans,John McDowell Pdf

Most of the papers in this volume bear upon the general question "What is the nature of an acceptable theory of meaning?" taking as their starting point an answer proposed by Donald Davidson. The remaining papers are attempts to work outthe implications of suggested answers to this question, or to solve semantical problems in accordance with them.

Author : Joseph Keim Campbell,Michael O'Rourke,David Shier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015055581170

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Meaning and Truth by Joseph Keim Campbell,Michael O'Rourke,David Shier Pdf

This work presents essays on topics of philosophy of language. The text is organized around themes such as the nature of truth and meaning, the semantic nature of quantifiers, and the distinction between semantics and pragmatics.

Author : Hugues Leblanc
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1976-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0444107509

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Truth-Value Semantics by Hugues Leblanc Pdf

Author : Rudolf Carnap
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781136654299

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The Unity of Science by Rudolf Carnap Pdf

As a leading member of the Vienna Circle, Rudolph Carnap's aim was to bring about a "unified science" by applying a method of logical analysis to the empirical data of all the sciences. This work, first published in English in 1934, endeavors to work out a way in which the observation statements required for verification are not private to the observer. The work shows the strong influence of Wittgenstein, Russell, and Frege.

Author : Gerhard Preyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199697519

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Donald Davidson on Truth, Meaning, and the Mental by Gerhard Preyer Pdf

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.

Author : Alfred Tarski
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 091514476X

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Logic, Semantics, Metamathematics by Alfred Tarski Pdf

Author : Savas L. Tsohatzidis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110687538

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Truth, Force, and Knowledge in Language by Savas L. Tsohatzidis Pdf

This book collects twenty-five of the author's essays, each of which addresses a descriptive or a foundational issue that arises at the interface between linguistic semantics and pragmatics, on the one hand, and the philosophy of language, on the other. Arranged into three interconnected parts (I. Matters of Meaning and Truth; II. Matters of Meaning and Force; III. Knowledge Matters), the essays suggest that some key topics in the above-mentioned fields have often been approached in ways that considerably underestimate their empirical or conceptual complexity, and attempt to delineate perspectives from which, and conditions under which, an improved understanding of those topics could be sought. The book will be of interest to linguists working in semantics and pragmatics, and to philosophers working in the philosophy of language and in epistemology.