(Ebook pdf) Some Questions About Language: A Theory of Human Discourse and Its Objects
·•●- Mortimer J. Adler ·•●-
| #3939873 in Books | Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S. | 1977-04 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | File Name: 0875483208 | 203 pages |
||11 of 12 people found the following review helpful.| Exposition outstanding; theory difficult but compelling|By A Customer|Mortimer Adler is often regarded as a superficial popularizer, but in this book (first published in 1976) he explores an important philosophical topic with all the rigor and depth one could ask for. Deliberately patterning himself after the "quaestio" form of St. Thomas Aquinas's Summa, he sets forth the q
How do meaningless marks and sounds become the meaningful words of a natural language? What is the meaning of words that do not have referential significance? Can ordinary language really do what it appears to do, or is this an illusion? In this work, Dr Adler argues that these fundamental questions are not satisfactorily handled in the two main philosophies of language that have dominated 20th-century thinking on the subject - the syntactical and "ordinary language" ap...
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