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There is a long tradition in the philosophy of explaining the concept of ”meaning“ in terms of reference of the thing that our sign signifies. At the latest since Wittgenstein, ”meaning“ has been explained with the formula ”meaning=use,“ where one distinguishes between __how__ one uses something and __for what purpose__ one uses something. The author shows that this dichotomy between the ”how“ and the ”purpose“ of use can be unified. He does this by first investigating the concept of the purpose of use and then reconstructs the ”use-how“ by means of the concept of ”convention.“ Finally, the author demonstrates how to traditional referential semantics can be justified on the basis of the theory developed here.

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Author

Meggle, Georg

Publisher

de Gruyter GmbH, Walter

Published

2010

Language

DE

ISBN

9783110226829

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Linguistics, Psychology