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The philosophy of language is not an isolated philosophical discipline of merely technical interest to other philosophers. Rather, as Mark Platts shows, the philosophy of language can help to solve traditional problems in other areas of philosophy, such as metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics. Ways of Meaning provides a clear, comprehensive introduction to such issues at the forefront of philosophy. Assuming only minimum knowledge of elementary formal logic, the book shows how taking truth as the central notion in the theory of meaning can clarify the relations between language, reality, and knowledge, and thus illuminate the nature of each.This second edition of the book contains a new chapter on the notions of natural-kind words and natural kinds. Unlike other discussions of the subject, this one places the semantic issues involved in the context of questions about the relations between knowing subjects and known objects. The author has also added a bibliography of further readings published since the first edition appeared in 1979.

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title	:	Ways of Meaning : An Introduction to Philosophy of Language
author	:	Platts, Mark de Bretton.
publisher	:	MIT Press
isbn10 \| asin	:	0262661071
print isbn13	:	9780262661072
ebook isbn13	:	9780585345550
language	:	English
subject	Language and languages--Philosophy.
publication date	:	1997
lcc	:	P106.P56 1997eb
ddc	:	121/.68
subject	:	Language and languages--Philosophy.

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Ways of Meaning

An Introduction to a Philosophy of Language

Second edition

Mark de Bretton Platts

Page iv

First published in 1979 by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. 1979 Mark de Bretton Platts This edition 1997 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher.

Printed and bound in the United States of America.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Platts, Mark de Bretton, 1947
Ways of meaning : an introduction to a philosophy of language / Mark de Bretton
Platts. 2nd ed.
p. cm.
"A Bradford book."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-262-66107-1 (pb : alk. paper)
1. Language and languages Philosophy. I. Title.
P106.P56 1997 96-45206
121'.68 dc21 CIP

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For Hilary Putnam

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Human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when all the time we are longing to move the stars to pity.
Flaubert

The system of sounds is the instrument on which we articulate the words of our language; if one of these elements is modified there can be diverse consequences, but the fact in itself does not concern words which are, as it were, the melodies of our repertoire.
Saussure

Reality is infinitely varied compared even with the subtlest workings of abstract thought and does not tolerate broad, clear-cut distinctions. Reality strives for infinite graduation.
Dostoyevsky

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CONTENTS

Preface to the Second Edition

Preface

xiii

Introduction

Part One
The Elements of Meaning

I
Truth: Conditions, Predicates, and Definitions

1 Theories of Truth

2 Ramsey's Theory of Truth

3 Simple Truth-definitions

4 Predicates and Satisfaction

5 Sequences as Satisfiers

6 The Workings of Satisfaction

7 Realism and Correspondence

8 Truth-bearers

9 Some Refinements

II
Theories of Truth and Theories of Meaning

1 Novelty and Boundlessness in Language Use

2 Some Possible Constraints on Theories of Meaning: Holism and Monism

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