Quine versus Davidson : truth, reference, and meaning /

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Gary Kemp presents a penetrating investigation of key issues in the philosophy of language, by means of a comparative study of two great figures of late twentieth-century philosophy. So far as language and meaning are concerned, Willard Van Orman Quine and Donald Davidson are usually regarded as bir...

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Truth, reference, and meaning
1. Verfasser:
Kemp, Gary
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Zusammenfassung:
Gary Kemp presents a penetrating investigation of key issues in the philosophy of language, by means of a comparative study of two great figures of late twentieth-century philosophy. So far as language and meaning are concerned, Willard Van Orman Quine and Donald Davidson are usually regarded as birds of a feather. The two disagreed in print on various matters over the years, but fundamentally they seem to be in agreement; most strikingly, Davidson's thought experiment of Radical Interpretation looks to be a more sophisticated, technically polished version of Quinean Radical Translation. Yet Q
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1 online resource (viii, 191 pages)
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Description based upon print version of record.
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English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
1-280-59441-1
9786613624246
0-19-162921-9
Schlagworte:
Quine, W. V. > (Willard Van Orman)
Davidson, Donald, > 1917-2003.
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