Reflections on meaning / Paul Horwich.

Paul Horwich explains how mere noises, marks, gestures, and mental symbols are able to capture the world - that is, how words and sentences (in whatever medium) come to mean what they do, to stand for certain things, to be true or false of reality.

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Main Author: Horwich, Paul
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2005.
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Summary:Paul Horwich explains how mere noises, marks, gestures, and mental symbols are able to capture the world - that is, how words and sentences (in whatever medium) come to mean what they do, to stand for certain things, to be true or false of reality.
Physical Description:1 online resource (vii, 236 pages)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-230) and index.
ISBN:9780191530678
0191530670
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9781423788812
9780191603983
0191603988
9786611190651
6611190651
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9781281190659
Language:English.
Reproduction Note:Electronic reproduction.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.
Action Note:digitized