• Anglický jazyk

Simple Sentences, Substitution, and Intuitions

Autor: John Saul

The phenomenon of substitution failure is a longstanding focus of discussion for philosophers of language. Substitution failure occurs when a change from one co-referential name to another (e.g. from "Superman" to "Clark Kent") affects the truth-value of a sentence.... Viac o knihe

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O knihe

The phenomenon of substitution failure is a longstanding focus of discussion for philosophers of language. Substitution failure occurs when a change from one co-referential name to another (e.g. from "Superman" to "Clark Kent") affects the truth-value of a sentence. Jennifer Saul has shown that this can occur even in the simplest of sentences. She presents the first full-length treatment of this puzzling feature of language, and explores its implications for the theory of reference and names, and for the methodology of semantics.

  • Vydavateľstvo: Oxford University Press
  • Rok vydania: 2007
  • Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
  • ISBN: 9780199219155

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