Paradigms for Language Theory and Other Essays
by Jaakko Hintikka 2020-05-29 19:40:11
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Several of the basic ideas of current language theory are subjected to critical scrutiny and found wanting, including the concept of scope, the hegemony of generative syntax, the Frege-Russell claim that verbs like `is'' are ambiguous, and the assump... Read more
Several of the basic ideas of current language theory are subjected to critical scrutiny and found wanting, including the concept of scope, the hegemony of generative syntax, the Frege-Russell claim that verbs like `is'' are ambiguous, and the assumptions underlying the so-called New Theory of Reference. In their stead, new constructive ideas are proposed. Less
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  • 9.21 X 6.14 X 0 in
  • 320
  • Springer Netherlands
  • November 30, 1997
  • English
  • 9789401725316
Jaakko Hintikka is the author or co-author of thirty volumes and of some 300 scholarly articles in mathematical and philosophical logic, epistemology, language theory, philosophy of science, history o...
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