Essays on Linguistic Context Sensitivity and Its Philosophical Significance
- List Price: $150.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis
- Publish date: 03/01/2001
Description:
Drawing upon and synthesizing state-of-the-art research in philosophical logic, linguistics, and cognitive science, this study explores how our ability to use and understand language depends on our ability to keep track of complex features of the contexts in which we converse.
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It argues that close attention to this phenomenon illuminates how we reason with vague concepts and permits a novel solution to the troubling Paradox. In addition, the author draws upon "context sensitivity" to examine what philosophers might mean when they raise such "ontological" questions as "do numbers exist?"
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