Modality And Meaning
Download and Read Modality And Meaning full books in PDF, ePUB, and Kindle. Read online free Modality And Meaning ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Modality and Meaning
Author | : W.G. Lycan |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1994-08-31 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780792330066 |
Download Modality and Meaning Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Part I of this book presents a theory of modal metaphysics in the possible-worlds tradition. `Worlds' themselves are understood as structured sets of properties; this `Ersatzist' view is defended against its most vigorous competitors, Meinongianism and David Lewis' theory of existent concrete worlds. Related issues of essentialism and linguistic reference are explored. Part II takes up the question of lexical meaning in the context of possible-world semantics. There are skeptical analyses of analyticity and the notion of a logical constant; and an `infinite polysemy' thesis is defended. The book will be of particular interest to metaphysicians, possible-world semanticists, philosophers of language, and linguists concerned with lexical semantics.
Modality and Meaning Related Books
Pages: 372
Pages: 351
Pages: 437
Pages: 248
Pages: 391