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Pragmatist semantics : a use-based approach to linguistic representation /

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"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 th...

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Main Author: Zalabardo, José L. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.
Subjects:
Semantics (Philosophy)
Pragmatics.
Sémantique (Philosophie)
Pragmatique.
pragmatics.
Semantics.
Linguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES.
Metaphysics.
PHILOSOPHY.
Pragmatics
Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge.
Philosophy.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.