商品簡介
Justice propounds a theory of semantics to explain how sentences get to be true or false. The truth or falsity of a declarative sentence depends on the sentence, the circumstances with respect to which the sentence is evaluated, and sometimes the context in which the sentence occurs, he says, and because speakers of natural languages can express and understand an unlimited number of sentences, it must be possible to figure out whether a sentence is true by understanding how a speaker constructs its constituent phrases and combines them to produce meaning and in relation to the circumstances. Therefore, he argues, the meaning and truth-value of a sentence results from rule-governed combinations of its constituents' meanings and relations to the circumstances. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
作者簡介
John Justice is the recipient of a PhD in philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin. Currently, Dr. Justice is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Randolph College, receiving the honor of Mary Frances Williams Professor. His publications include ?On Sense and Reflexivity? in the Journal of Philosophy, ?Mill-Frege Compatibilism? in the Journal of Philosophical Research, ?The Semantics of Rigid Designation? in Ratio, and ?Unified Semantics of Singular Terms? in The Philosophical Quarterly.
