Semantic powers : meaning and the means of knowing in classical Indian philosophy / Jonardon Ganeri.

Jonardon Ganeri defends a conception of language as essentially a means for the reception of knowledge through testimony. He argues that the possibility of testimony constrains the form of a theory of meaning. In particular, the semantic power of a word, its ability to stand for or take the place of...

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Main Author: Ganeri, Jonardon
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1999.
Series:Oxford philosophical monographs.
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