Donald Davidson
Meaning, Truth, Language, and Reality
Lepore, Ernie Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University, New Jersey
Ludwig, Kirk Department of Philosophy, University of Florida, Gainesville
Print publication date: 2005 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: July 2005
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-925134-6
doi:10.1093/0199251347.003.0002
Ernie Lepore
Kirk Ludwig
Discusses the requirement that an adequate theory of meaning give a constructive account of the meanings of sentences in natural languages, that is, an account of how the meanings of sentences and their complex parts are understood ultimately on the basis of a finite number of semantical primitives and a finite number of rules for their composition.
Keywords: compositionality, knowledge of language, learnability, semantical primitives, theory of meaning,
doi:10.1093/0199251347.003.0002
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Part 1 Historical Introduction to Truth-Theoretic Semantics
Part II Radical Interpretation
Part III Metaphysics and Epistemology