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Introduction To The Semantics-Pragmatics Boundary In Philosophy, Maite Ezdurdia, Robert J. Stainton
Introduction To The Semantics-Pragmatics Boundary In Philosophy, Maite Ezdurdia, Robert J. Stainton
Robert J. Stainton
An introductory survey of the nature and importance of the semantics-pragmatics boundary.
In Defense Of Public Languages, Robert J. Stainton
In Defense Of Public Languages, Robert J. Stainton
Robert J. Stainton
My modest aim in this note is to sketch three interrelated critiques of public languages, and to respond to them. All allegedly support the same conclusion: that, insofar as they even exist, the study of public languages is not a viable scientific project. (Related critiques of semantics, understood as involving word-world relations, will be touched on as well.)