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Author Travis, Charles

Title The True and the False : the Domain of the Pragmatic
Published Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1981

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Description 1 online resource (170 pages)
Series Pragmatics & beyond, 0166-6258 ; 2:2
Pragmatics & beyond ; 2:2
Contents THE TRUE AND THE FALSE: THE DOMAIN OF THE PRAGMATIC; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; PREFACE; PART I: THE BORDER WITH SEMANTICS; PART II: A DEFINITION OF TRUTH; PART III: SOME OBJECTIONS; PART IV: THE RELATIVITY OF TRUTH; FOOTNOTES; REFERENCES
Summary Pragmatics often begins by supposing that specifying and describing truth bearers is a proper task for semantics. The main thrust of the present work is to show why truth and truth bearers lie essentially beyond the descriptive reach of semantics, and to outline a theory of truth bearers as a proper and fundamental task for pragmatics. It is also common for treatments, or definitions of truth to be confused with substantive theories about truth bearers, with a variety of unfortunate results. This monograph suggests a way of separating these tasks, and shows how many problems are thus avoided
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
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Subject Semantics (Philosophy)
Truth.
Pragmatics.
truth.
pragmatics.
PHILOSOPHY -- Logic.
Pragmatics
Semantics (Philosophy)
Truth
Form Electronic book
LC no. 81189396
ISBN 9789027280831
9027280835
1283359723
9781283359726
9786613359728
6613359726