Simple Sentences, Substitution, and Intuitions
MIA KARTS BOOKS
Book details
- Author
- Jennifer M. Saul
- Publisher
- OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- Grammar
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780199575640
- ISBN-10
- 0199575649
- Vendor: Mia Karts
Simple Sentences, Substitution, and Intuitions
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ISBN: 0199575649
Author: Saul, Jennifer M.
Condition: New
The phenomenon of substitution failure is a longstanding focus of discussion for philosophers of language. Substitution failure occurs when a change from one co-referential name to another (e.g. from 'Superman' to 'Clark Kent') affects the truth-value of a sentence. Jennifer Saul has shown that this can occur even in the simplest of sentences. She presents the first full-length treatment of this puzzling feature of language, and explores its implications for the theory of reference and names, and for the methodology of semantics.
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