UID:
almafu_9959233577002883
Format:
1 online resource (321 p.)
Edition:
2nd ed.
ISBN:
0-19-171518-2
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1-282-05263-2
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0-19-152983-4
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9786612052637
Series Statement:
The Philosophical Essays of Donald Davidson (5 Volumes)
Content:
Donald Davidson has prepared a new edition of the 1984 volume with an additional essay, which set out his influential philosophy of language. The central question which these essays address is what it is for words to mean what they do.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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""Contents""; ""Provenance of the Essays and Acknowledgements""; ""Preface to the Second Edition""; ""Introduction""; ""Truth and Meaning""; ""Essay 1. Theories of Meaning and Learnable Languages (1965)""; ""Essay 2. Truth and Meaning (1967)""; ""Essay 3. True to the Facts (1969)""; ""Essay 4. Semantics for Natural Languages (1970)""; ""Essay 5. In Defence of Convention T (1973)""; ""Applications""; ""Essay 6. Quotation (1979)""; ""Essay 7. On Saying That (1968)""; ""Essay 8. Moods and Performance (1979)""; ""Radical Interpretation""; ""Essay 9. Radical Interpretation (1973)""
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""Essay 10. Belief and the Basis of Meaning (1974)""""Essay 11. Thought and Talk (1975)""; ""Essay 12. Reply to Foster (1976)""; ""Language and Reality""; ""Essay 13. On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme (1974)""; ""Essay 14. The Method of Truth in Metaphysics (1977)""; ""Essay 15. Reality Without Reference (1977)""; ""Essay 16. The Inscrutability of Reference (1979)""; ""Limits of the Literal""; ""Essay 17. What Metaphors Mean (1978)""; ""Essay 18. Communication and Convention (1984)""; ""Appendix to Essay 10. Replies to Lewis and Quine (1974)""; ""Bibliographical References""; ""Index""
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""A""""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W""
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-924629-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-924628-9
Language:
English
