Simple Sentences, Substitution, and Intuitions
Download or Read eBook Simple Sentences, Substitution, and Intuitions PDF written by Jennifer M. Saul and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-08-05 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Jennifer M. Saul |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 2010-08-05 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780191614583 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0191614580 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Simple Sentences, Substitution, and Intuitions by : Jennifer M. Saul
Book excerpt: 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.
