Philosophy Without Ambiguity

by Jay David Atlas

This book expounds and defends a new conception of the relation between truth and meaning. Atlas argues that the sense of a sense-general sentence radically underdetermines (independently of indexicality) its truth-conditional content. He applies this linguistic analysis to illuminate old and new philosophical problems of meaning, truth, falsity, negation, existence, presupposition, and implicature. In particular, he demonstrates how the concept of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198244541
• ISBN13: 9780198244547
• Release Date: October 1989
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.8"