Intensionality and Truth : An Essay on the Philosophy of A.N. Prior /

Prior's view on intensionality and truth is based on the principle that sentences never name, that what sentences say cannot be otherwise signified, that a sentence says what it says whatever the type of its occurrence, and that sentential quantification is neither eliminable, substitutional, n...

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Main Author: Hugly, Philip
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Sayward, Charles
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1996.
Edition:1.
Series:Synthese library ; 255.
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Summary:Prior's view on intensionality and truth is based on the principle that sentences never name, that what sentences say cannot be otherwise signified, that a sentence says what it says whatever the type of its occurrence, and that sentential quantification is neither eliminable, substitutional, nor referential. The text defends each of these principles.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 433 pages)
ISBN:9789400902930 (electronic bk.)
940090293X (electronic bk.)