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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Table of Contents:
  • On what is strictly speaking true
  • Annals of analysis
  • Meaning's role in truth
  • Pragmatics
  • Sublunary intuitionism
  • Insensitive semantics
  • Aristotle's condition
  • Are belief ascriptions opaque?
  • Vagueness, observation, and sorites
  • Attitudes as states
  • On concepts of objects
  • On constraints of generality
  • A sense of occasion.

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