Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation

Name: Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation
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ISBN: 9780199246298

ISBN-10: 0199246297

ISBN-13: 9780199246298

Edition: 2nd 2001

Authors: Donald Davidson

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Donald Davidson presents a new edition of the 1984 volume which set out his enormously influential philosophy of language. Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation has been a central point of reference and a focus of controversy in the subject ever since, and its influence has extended into linguistic theory, philosophy of mind, and epistemology. This new edition features an additional essay, previously uncollected. The central question which these essays address is what it is for words to mean what they do. Davidson argues that a philosophically instructive theory of meaning should acknowledge the holistic nature of linguistic understanding, in that it should provide an interpretation of…

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List price: $53.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/22/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



inquiries Into Truth And Interpretation


Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation: Second Edition


Provenance of the Essays and Acknowledgements


Preface to the Second Edition


Introduction


Truth and Meaning



Theories of Meaning and Learnable Languages



Truth and Meaning



True to the Facts



Semantics for Natural Languages



In Defence of Convention T


Applications



Quotation



On Saying That



Moods and Performances


Radical Interpretation



Radical Interpretation



Belief and the Basis of Meaning



Thought and Talk



Reply to Foster


Language and Reality



On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme



The Method of Truth in Metaphysics



Reality Without Reference



The Inscrutability of Reference


Limits of the Literal



What Metaphors Mean



Communication and Convention


Appendix to Essay 10: Belief and the Basis of Meaning (1974)


Bibliographical References


Index