Meaning, Truth, and the Limits of Analysis: Ten Studies
Author:   David Wiggins (Emeritus Professor and Emeritus Fellow, Emeritus Professor and Emeritus Fellow, New College, Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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Pages:   208
Publication Date:   24 March 2022
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Author:   David Wiggins (Emeritus Professor and Emeritus Fellow, Emeritus Professor and Emeritus Fellow, New College, Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.10cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.442kg
ISBN:  

9780198726173


ISBN 10:   0198726171
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   24 March 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
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Sources Introduction 1: Meaning and Truth-Conditions: From Frege's Grand Design to Davidson's 2: Concept and Copula 3: Donald Davidson's Account of Semantic Interpretation. How Comprehensive Is It? 'All', 'Some', and 'Most' 4: Names, Existence, and Contingency 5: Modes of Grammatical Combination, Adverbs, and the Case of Action Sentences 6: Three Moments in the Theory of Definition or Analysis: Its Possibility, Its Aim or Aims, and Its Limit or Terminus 7: Locke: 'The Great Conduit' 8: Languages as Things in their Own Right 9: Peirce: Reflections on Inquiry and Truth Arising from his Method for the Fixation of Belief 10: A Substantivist-cum-Indefinibilist Account of Truth and the Marks of Truth

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David Wiggins was Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford from 1993 until his retirement in 2000. Before that, he was Professor at Bedford College, London; Fellow of University College, Oxford; and Professor at Birkbeck College, London. He is the author of Identity and Spatio-Temporal Continuity (Blackwell, 1967), Sameness and Substance (Blackwell, 1980), Needs, Values, Truth (amended 3rd edition Oxford, 2002), Sameness and Substance Renewed (Cambridge, 2001), Ethics: Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morality (Penguin, 2006), and Continuants: Their Activity, their Being, and their Identity (Oxford, 2018).

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