Radical Interpretation and Indeterminacy

Zusatztext In Radical Interpretation and Indeterminacy, Timothy McCarthy undertakes an attractive project that attempts to bring together two dominant themes in the philosophy of language of the last half century. Klappentext McCarthy develops a theory of radical interpretation--the project of characterizing from scratch the language and attitudes of an agent or population--and applies it to the problems of indeterminacy of interpretation first described by Quine. The major theme in McCarthy's study is that a relatively modest set of interpretive principles! properly applied! can serve to resolve the major indeterminacies of interpretation. Zusammenfassung McCarthy develops a theory of Radical Interpretation - the project of characterizing from scratch the language and attituteds of an agent or population - and applies the theory to the problems of indeterminacy of interperation first descrided in the writings of Quine.

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• Authors: Timothy McCarthy, Timothy (Professor of Philosophy Mccarthy, Timothy G. McCarthy, McCarthy Timothy
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.11.2002
• EAN: 9780195145069
• ISBN: 978-0-19-514506-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Language, MATHEMATICS / History & Philosophy, Philosophy of Mathematics