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Mark Richard

Meanings as Species

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Mark Richard presents an original picture of meaning according to which a word's meaning is analogous to the biological lineages we call species. His primary thesis is that a word's meaning - in the sense of what one needs to track in order to be a competent speaker - is the collection of assumptions its users make in using it and expect their hearers to recognize as being made. Meaning is something that is spread across a population, inherited by each new generationof speakers from the last, and typically evolving in so far as what constitutes a meaning changes in virtue of the interactions of speakers with their (linguistic and social) envi… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-19-258057-3
  • EAN: 9780192580573
  • Produktnummer: 31911585
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
  • Seitenangabe: 240 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 736 KB

Über den Autor


Mark Richard is a professor of philosophy at Harvard University. He is the author of Propositional Attitudes: An Essay on Thoughts and How We Ascribe Them (Cambridge 1990), When Truth Gives Out (Oxford 2008), and Context and the Attitudes: Meaning in Context, Volume 1 (Oxford 2013) and Truth and Truth Bearers: Meaning in Context, Volume 2 (Oxford 2015).

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