Meaning diminished : toward metaphysically modest semantics / Kenneth A. Taylor.

Meaning Diminished examines the complex relationship between semantic analysis and metaphysical inquiry. Kenneth A. Taylor argues that we should expect linguistic and conceptual analysis of natural language to yield far less metaphysical insight into what there is - and the nature of what there is -...

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Main Author: Taylor, K. A. (Kenneth A.) (Author)
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Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
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