Description: The Natural Background of Meaning Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Author(s): A. Denkel Format: Paperback Publisher: Springer, Netherlands Imprint: Springer ISBN-13: 9789048151264, 978-9048151264 Synopsis In The Natural Background to Meaning Denkel argues that meaning in language is an outcome of the evolutionary development of forms of animal communication, and explains this process by naturalising the Locke-Grice approach. The roots of meaning are contained in observable regularities, which are manifestations of objective connections such as essences and causal relations. Denkel's particularistic ontology of properties and causation leads to a view of time that harmonises B-theory with transience. Time's passage, he argues, is a necessary condition of communication and meaning. The book connects some central topics in the philosophies of language, science and ontology, treating them within the framework of a single theory. It will interest not only professional philosophers doing research on meaning, universals, causation and time, but also students, who can consult it as a textbook examining Grice's theory of meaning.
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Book Title: The Natural Background of Meaning
Item Height: 240 mm
Item Width: 160 mm
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
Author: A. Denkel
Publication Name: The Natural Background of Meaning
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Springer
Subject: Science
Publication Year: 2010
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 411 g
Number of Pages: 252 Pages
