Paradoxes

Klappentext The book should interest! and may well surprise! philosophers and others concerned with semantics and the foundations of logic. Zusammenfassung Dr Cargile offers here an original and sustained treatment of a range of issues and in fact presents an unfashionable defence of a platonistic ontology. The book should interest! and may well surprise! philosophers and others concerned with semantics and the foundations of logic. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction; 1. Subject-predicate form; 2. Mill's theory of names; 3. Platonism; 4. Denotation and connotation; 5. Meinongianism; 6. Kinds of assertion and predication; 7. Semantic paradoxes; List of references; Index.

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The book should interest, and may well surprise, philosophers and others concerned with semantics and the foundations of logic.

Résumé
Dr Cargile offers here an original and sustained treatment of a range of issues and in fact presents an unfashionable defence of a platonistic ontology. The book should interest, and may well surprise, philosophers and others concerned with semantics and the foundations of logic.

Contenu

Preface; Introduction; 1. Subject-predicate form; 2. Mill's theory of names; 3. Platonism; 4. Denotation and connotation; 5. Meinongianism; 6. Kinds of assertion and predication; 7. Semantic paradoxes; List of references; Index.