LINGUIST List 13.3281
Thu Dec 12 2002
Books: Semantics/Linguistic Theories: Tennant
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Message 1: The Taming of the True: Tennant
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 14:50:22 +0000
From: bartonm <bartonmoup-usa.org>
Subject: The Taming of the True: Tennant
Title: The Taming of the True
Publication Year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: http://www.oup-usa.org/isbn/0198237170.html
Author: Neil Tennant, Ohio State University
Hardback: ISBN: 0198237170, Pages: 488 pp, Price: $ 60.00
Paperback: ISBN: 0199251606, Pages: 488 pp, Price: $ 24.95
Abstract:
The Taming of the True defends and develops global semantic
anti-realism. Neil Tennant argues compellingly that every truth is
knowable, and that manifestationism in the theory of meaning entails
logical reform. He extends semantic anti-realism to empirical
discourse, developing new accounts of the analytic/synthetic
distinction, cognitive significance and constructive
falsifiability. The book has important consequences for the philosophy
of mathematics and logic, the theory of meaning, metaphysics, and
epistemology.
Lingfield(s): Linguistic Theories,
Semantics
Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)