Philosophy of Meaning and Representation-Ramesh Chandra Pradhan-DKPD-9788124600696
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| Surveying all the
landmark developments in the recent philosophy of language, the book focusses
on ‘meaning’ and ‘linguistic representations’ in its thematic effort to
propose a representational theory of meaning. Meaning is the autonomous
component of language: its semantic content and its essence as well. The
book, thus, tries to link meaning with linguistic representations — which, in
themselves, not only are logico-grammatical structures, but also represent
the world around us. Also attempting to reconcile the conflicting claims of
the realists and the anti-realists, the author demonstrates how we have no
choice between meaning as ‘truth-conditions’ and meaning as
‘justification-conditions’, since both are equally rooted in the semantic
space of language-use involving linguistic representations. Dr. Pradhan’s
analyses have, at their base, his indepth, critical study of the theory of
linguistic representation in Frege, Wittgenstein, Davidson, and Dummett. In
sum, the book lends a forceful support to semantics and, more specially, to
the autonomy of meaning. And the theory of representation, argued for here,
promises to fulfil the twin theses of representationality and autonomy of
meaning. It is an insightfully analytical work of immense usefulness to the
scholars of philosophy concerned with linguistic representation, semantics
and meaning. |
| Book |
| ISBN |
9788124600696
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| PUBLISHER |
DKPD |
| Binding |
HARDCOVER |
| Edition |
1996 |
| Language |
ENGLISH |
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