Occasion Sensitivity is popular PDF and ePub book, written by Charles Travis in 2008-02-28, it is a fantastic choice for those who relish reading online the Philosophy genre. Let's immerse ourselves in this engaging Philosophy book by exploring the summary and details provided below. Remember, Occasion Sensitivity can be Read Online from any device for your convenience.
Occasion Sensitivity Book PDF Summary
Charles Travis presents a series of essays in which he has developed his distinctive view of the relation of thought to language. The key idea is 'occasion-sensitivity': what it is for words to express a given concept is for them to be apt for contributing to any of many different conditions of correctness (notably truth conditions). Since words mean what they do by expressing a given concept, it follows that meaning does not determine truth conditions. This view ties thoughts less tightly to the linguistic forms which express them than traditional views of the matter, and in two directions: a given linguistic form, meaning fixed, may express an indefinite variety of thoughts; one thought can be expressed in an indefinite number of syntactically and semantically distinct ways. Travis highlights the importance of this view for linguistic theory, and shows how it gives new form to a variety of traditional philosophical problems.
Detail Book of Occasion Sensitivity PDF
- Author : Charles Travis
- Release : 28 February 2008
- Publisher : OUP Oxford
- ISBN : 9780191528101
- Genre : Philosophy
- Total Page : 328 pages
- Language : English
- PDF File Size : 20,5 Mb
If you're still pondering over how to secure a PDF or EPUB version of the book Occasion Sensitivity by Charles Travis, don't worry! All you have to do is click the 'Get Book' buttons below to kick off your Download or Read Online journey. Just a friendly reminder: we don't upload or host the files ourselves.