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  title info:
    title: Pragmatist semantics
    sub title: a use-based approach to linguistic representation
  name:
    name part: Zalabardo, José L.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 233 pages)
  abstract: "Još L. Zalabardo defends a pragmatist account of what grounds the meaning of central semantic discourses--ascriptions of truth, of propositional attitudes, and of meanings. He argues that it is the procedures that regulate acceptance and rejection that give the sentences of these discourses their meanings, and explores the application of the pragmatist template to ethical discourse. The pragmatist approach is presented as an alternative to representationalist accounts of the meaning grounds of declarative sentences, according to which a sentence has the meaning it has as a result of links with the bits of the world that it purports to represent. Zalabardo develops a version of the open-question argument to support the claim that the meaning grounds of the discourses he focuses on cannot receive representationalist accounts. It is generally assumed that a declarative sentence cannot perform the function of representing the world unless it has a representationalist meaning ground. Zalabardo rejects this assumption, arguing that sentences with pragmatist meaning grounds can represent the world in exactly the same sense that sentences with representationalist meaning grounds do. This requires that there are states of affairs that the target sentences represent as obtaining, and Zalabardo develops an account of the nature of the states of affairs that can play this role for sentences with pragmatist meaning grounds. Pragmatist Semantics concludes by developing the suggestion that the meaning grounds of all our representational discourses might be ultimately pragmatist"--
  table of contents: Preface -- Representational discourse -- The open-question argument in ethics -- The open-question argument in semantics -- Some reactions -- Pragmatist meaning grounds -- Belief and desire -- Meaning and truth -- Harmony and abstraction -- The primacy of practice -- Epilogue: The meaning grounds of meaning-ground specifications.
  note: José L. Zalabardo.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Semantics (Philosophy)
  subject:
    topic: Pragmatics
  subject:
    topic: Sémantique (Philosophie)
  subject:
    topic: Pragmatique
  subject:
    topic: pragmatics
  subject:
    topic: Semantics
  subject:
    topic: Linguistics
  subject:
    topic: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
  subject:
    topic: Metaphysics
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY
  subject:
    topic: Pragmatics
  subject:
    topic: Semantics (Philosophy)
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  classification: B840 .Z35 2023
  classification: 121.68
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    title info:
      title: Pragmatist semantics
    name:
      name part: Zalabardo, José L.,
    identifier: (OCoLC)1368360244
  identifier: 9780191976568
  identifier: 0191976563
  identifier: 0192874888
  identifier: 9780192874887
  identifier: 0192874756
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  record info:
    record content source: UIU
    record creation date: 230606
    record change date: 20260318165522.4
    record identifier: in00005698252
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng