Language in the World

A Philosophical Enquiry

By:

M.J. Cresswell

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Hardback

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Philosophy

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What makes the words we speak mean what they do? Possible-worlds semantics articulates the view that the meanings of words contribute to determining, for each sentence, which possible worlds would make the sentence true, and which would make it false. M. J. Cresswell argues that the non-semantic facts on which such semantic facts supervene are facts about the causal interactions between the linguistic behaviour of speakers and the facts in the world that they are speaking about, and that the kind of causation involved is best analysed using David Lewis's account of causation in terms of counterfactuals. Although philosophers have worked on the question of the connection between meaning and linguistic behaviour, it has mostly been without regard to the work done in possible-world semantics and Language in the World is the first book-length examination of this problem.

Release date NZ

March 3rd, 1994

Author

M.J. Cresswell

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Pages

172

Series

Cambridge Studies in Philosophy

Dimensions

144x224x16

ISBN-13

9780521445627

Product ID

2397535

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