Donald Davidson : Meaning, Truth, Language, and Reality
Donald Davidson : Meaning, Truth, Language, and Reality
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Author(s): Lepore, Ernest
Lepore, Ernie
Ludwig, Kirk
ISBN No.: 9780199251346
Pages: 464
Year: 200505
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 100.74
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1. Introduction Part I: Historical Introduction to Truth-Theoretic Semantics 2. Learnable Languages and the Compositionality Requirement 3. The Form of a Meaning Theory and Difficulties for Traditional Approaches 4. The Introduction of a Truth Theory as the Vehicle of a Meaning Theory 5. Truth and Context Sensitivity 6. Davidson's Extensionalist Proposal 7. The Extensionality and Determination Problems 8.


Foster's Objection 9. Relation to an Explicit Meaning Theory and to Semantic Competence 10. The Problem of Semantic Defects in Natural Languages Part II: Radical Interpretation 11. Clarifying the Project 12. The Procedure of the Radical Interpreter 13. The Justification of the Principle of Charity 14. The Theory of Agency and Additional Constraints 15. Indeterminacy 16.


Development of a Unified Theory of Meaning and Action 17. The Reality of Language Part III: Metaphysics and Epistemology 18. The Impossibility of Alternative Conceptual Schemes 19. Externalism and the Impossibility of Massive Error 20. First Person Authority 21. Inscrutability of Reference 22. Language, Thought, and World Bibliography.


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