Conjoining Meanings

Conjoining Meanings
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 404
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ISBN-10 : 9780198812722
ISBN-13 : 0198812728
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Book Synopsis Conjoining Meanings by : Paul M. Pietroski

Download or read book Conjoining Meanings written by Paul M. Pietroski and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul M. Pietroski presents an ambitious new account of human languages as generative procedures that respect substantive constraints. He argues that meanings are neither concepts nor extensions, and sentences do not have truth conditions; meanings are composable instructions for how to access and assemble concepts of a special sort.


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