29.807, Books: Subjectivity and Perspective in Truth-Theoretic Semantics: Lasersohn

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Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 14:19:35
From: Celine Aenlle-Rocha [Celine.Aenlle-Rocha at oup.com]
Subject: Subjectivity and Perspective in Truth-Theoretic Semantics: Lasersohn

 


Title: Subjectivity and Perspective in Truth-Theoretic Semantics 
Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/subjectivity-and-perspective-in-truth-theoretic-semantics-9780199573684 


Author: Peter Lasersohn

Paperback: ISBN:  9780199573684 Pages:  Price: ----  


Abstract:

This book explores linguistic and philosophical issues presented by sentences
expressing personal taste, such as Roller coasters are fun, or Licorice is
tasty. Standard semantic theories explain the meanings of sentences by
specifying the conditions under which they are true; here, Peter Lasersohn
asks how we can account for sentences that are concerned with matters of
opinion rather than matters of fact. He argues that a truth-theoretic semantic
theory is appropriate even for sentences like these, but that for such
sentences, truth and falsity must be assigned relative to perspectives, rather
than absolutely. The book provides a detailed and explicit formal grammar,
working out the implications of this conception of truth both for simple
sentences and for reports of mental attitude. The semantic analysis is paired
with a pragmatic theory explaining what it means to assert a sentence which is
true or false only relativistically, and with a speculative account of the
functional motivation for a relativized notion of truth.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
                     Semantics


Written In: English  (eng)

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