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9780199290932

Donald Davidson's Truth-theoretic Semantics

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    9780199290932

  • ISBN10:

    0199290938

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2007-03-01
  • Publisher: Clarendon Press
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Summary

The work of Donald Davidson (1917-2003) transformed the study of meaning. Ernie Lepore and Kirk Ludwig, two of the world's leading authorities on Davidson's work, present the definitive study of his widely admired and influential program of truth-theoretic semantics for natural languages, giving an exposition and critical examination of its foundations and applications.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Truth-theoretic semantics: basic framework
Quantifiers
Implementation of the extension of the truth theory to quantifiers
Proper names, indexicals and simple demonstratives
Complex demonstratives
The semantics of quotation
Adjectives and adverbs
The simple tenses of state and event verbs
Temporal adverbials and quantifiers
Tense in sentential complements and the perfect tenses
Opaque contexts: indirect discourse and attitude sentences
Non-declarative sentences
Semantic structure and logical form
Truth and correspondence
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