Truth in virtue of meaning /

The analytic/synthetic distinction looks simple. It is a distinction between two different kinds of sentence. Synthetic sentences are true in part because of the way the world is, and in part because of what they mean. Analytic sentences - like all bachelors are unmarried and triangles have three si...

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Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
Russell, Gillian Kay
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Zusammenfassung:
The analytic/synthetic distinction looks simple. It is a distinction between two different kinds of sentence. Synthetic sentences are true in part because of the way the world is, and in part because of what they mean. Analytic sentences - like all bachelors are unmarried and triangles have three sides - are different. They are true in virtue of meaning, so no matter what the world is like, as long as the sentence means what it does, it will be true. This distinction seems powerful because analytic sentences seem to be knowable in a special way. One can know that all bachelors are unmarried, f
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1 online resource (xv, 232 pages)
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Description based upon print version of record.
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English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-228) and index.
ISBN:
0-19-969473-7
1-281-15043-6
9786611150433
0-19-152833-1
Schlagworte:
Truth.
Meaning (Philosophy)
Grammar, Comparative and general > Sentences.
Knowledge, Theory of.
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