Occasion-sensitivity : selected essays

Occasion-sensitivity : selected essays / Charles Travis.

Charles Travis presents a series of essays in which he has developed his distinctive view of the relation of thought to language. He argues that there are varying conditions of correctness which determine whether words express a given concept, and thus that meaning does not determine truth condition...

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Main Author: Travis, Charles, 1943-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Subjects:
Semantics (Philosophy)
Language and languages > Philosophy.
Context (Linguistics)
Truth.
Meaning (Philosophy)
truth.
PHILOSOPHY > Epistemology.
Language and languages > Philosophy
Truth
Waarheid.
Meningen.
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Summary:Charles Travis presents a series of essays in which he has developed his distinctive view of the relation of thought to language. He argues that there are varying conditions of correctness which determine whether words express a given concept, and thus that meaning does not determine truth conditions.
Physical Description:1 online resource (318 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 316-318) and index.
ISBN:0191528102
9780191528101
1281341614
9781281341617
9780191710605
0191710601
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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