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Semantics, Metasemantics, Aboutness

Semantics, Metasemantics, Aboutness

Simchen, Ori

Hardcover

PhilosophyLinguistics

ISBN10: 019879214X
ISBN13: 9780198792147
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Apr 16 2017
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Semantics aims to describe the significance (or meaning) of linguistic expressions in a systematic way. Metasemantics, or foundational semantics, asks how expressions gain their significance in the first place - what makes it the case that expressions mean what they do.

Metasemantics has recently been discussed extensively by philosophers of language, philosophers of mind, and philosophically minded linguists and psychologists. A large concern is semantic indeterminacy, the worry that there is no fact of the matter as to the semantic significance of our words. Ori Simchen offers a distinctly metasemantic strategy to counter this threat.

Semantics, Metasemantics, Aboutness is the first book-length treatment of metasemantics and its relation to the thriving research program of truth-conditional semantics.

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