384 Pages
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Routledge
384 Pages
by
Routledge
384 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1962, The Diversity of Meaning was written to provide a more constructive criticism of the philosophy of ordinary language than the more destructive approach that it was commonly subjected to at the time of publication.
The book deals with a range of philosophical problems in a way that cuts underneath the more typical orthodoxies of the time. It is concerned primarily... Read more
Preface; 1: An Eighteenth-Century Innovation in the Concept of Meaning; 2: Meanings Conceived as what Words have in a Language or Culture; 3: Meanings Conceived as Topics for Philosophical Investigation; 4: The Concept of Meaning in the Problem of Univerals; 5: Meanings Conceived as what are Understood in an Act of Communication; 6: Meaning and the a Priori; 7: Meaning and the Law of Extensionality; 8: Meanings Conceived as Topics for Formal-Logical Investigation; 9: Meaning and Vagueness; 10: The Concept of Meaning in the Problem of Natural Necessity; Appendix A; Appendix B; Index
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L. Jonathan Cohen
