Language And Philosophical Problems

Soren Stenlunds work marks a major advance in our understanding of why thephilosophy of language has been so dominated over the past few decades by thesocalled ... » 

Soren Stenlunds work marks a major advance in our understanding of why thephilosophy of language has been so dominated over the past few decades by thesocalled creative aspect of language the problem of how we are able tounderstand sentences that we have never heard before.Stenlund raises some fundamental philosophical objections by demonstrating forexample how the theory distorts the flexibility and fluidity of word andsentence meaning. Although words and sentences can have a remarkable numberof different sometimes extraordinarily subtle meanings Stenlund shows howlanguageusers can readily adapt to entirely novel uses of a word or asentence.Language and Philosophical Problems presents the results of philosophicalinvestigations into several connected issues of current interest within thephilosophies of language logic mind and mathematics. In particular it dealswith our tendency to be misled by certain prevailing views and preconceptionsof language. «