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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      October 2011
      September 1985
      ISBN:
      9780511895975
      9780521071291
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511895975
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.36kg, 280 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Philosophy: General Interest, Ethics, Philosophy, Language and Linguistics, Semantics and Pragmatics
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
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    Subjects:
    Philosophy: General Interest, Ethics, Philosophy, Language and Linguistics, Semantics and Pragmatics
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
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    This book develops in detail the simple idea that assertion is the expression of belief. In it the author puts forward a version of 'probabilistic semantics' which acknowledges that we are not perfectly rational, and which offers a significant advance in generality on theories of meaning couched in terms of truth conditions. It promises to challenge a number of entrenched and widespread views about the relations of language and mind. Part I presents a functionalist account of belief, worked through a modified form of decision theory. In Part II the author generates a theory of meaning in terms of 'assertibility conditions', whereby to know the meaning of an assertion is to know the belief it expresses.

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