Semantics and the Philosophy of Language: A Collection of Readings

By: Linsky, Leonard

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• Format: Hardcover
• ISBN: B000LNE7QO
• Release Date: January 1964
• Publisher: university of illinois press
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A good anthology to have.

Good selection. Not all of them are seminal in the philosophy of language, but of course that's arguable. The selection is nevertheless good: Tarski's "The Semntic Conception of Truth"; C.I. Lewis "The Modes of Meaning"; N. Goodman's "On Likeness of Meaning" and "The Problem of Counterfactual Conditionals"; Quine's "Notes on Existence and Necessity" and "On What There Is"; Russell's "Descriptions"; B. Mates' "Synonymity"; P. Marhenke's "The Criterion of Signficance"; Carl Hempel's "Problems and Changes in the Empiricist Criterion of Meaning"; Carnap's "Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology"; A. Naess' "Toward a Theory of Interpretation and Preciseness"; M.G. White's "The Analytic and the Synthetic: An Untenable Dualism"