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Stefano Predelli comes to the defense of the traditional "formal" approach to natural-language semantics, arguing that it has been misrepresented not only by its critics, but also by its foremost defenders. In Contexts he offers a fundamental reappraisal, with particular attention to the treatment of indexicality and other forms of contextual dependence which have been the focus of much recent controversy. Predelli shows how his metasemantic approach deals with...
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Stefano Predelli is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham
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"Stefano Predelli's deft and pithy first book, Contexts: Meaning, Truth, and the Use of Language, is sometimes surprising and always rewarding. Since it is a work of meta-semantics, Predelli's book is easier to follow if one is already familiar with various traditional or radical-contextualist semantic views. Still, it is a book that everyone who is interested in those views--and indeed all philosophers of language--should read."--Ben Caplan, Notre Dame Philosophical...
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0199558116
- ISBN 13 9780199558117
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- LanguageEnglish
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- Number of pages208
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