By David Shier
The 1st quantity within the themes IN modern PHILOSOPHY sequence includes 15 essays on quite a number subject matters within the philosophy of language by means of top authors within the box. each one essay investigates a few element of philosophical semantics; one of the topics addressed are the character of fact, the relation among fact and that means, the semantic nature of quantifiers, and the excellence among semantics and pragmatics.
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