Reasoning with Attitude by Luca Incurvati, Julian J. Schlder - 9780197620984

Reasoning with AttitudeFoundations and Applications of Inferential Expressivism\nAuthor(s): Luca Incurvati, Julian J. Schl?der\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press Inc, United States\nImprint: Oxford University Press Inc\nISBN-13: 9780197620984, 978-0197620984\nSynopsis\nThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND [url] license. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free ---- ---- from OUP and selected open access locations.\n\nCertain combinations of sounds or signs on paper are meaningful. What makes it the case that, unlike most combinations of sounds or signs, they have meaning? What is this meaning that they have? And what is it to understand this meaning? This book advances new answers to these questions by developing inferential expressivism, a novel approach to the study of meaning which combines elements of the expressivist and inferentialist programs.\n\nExpressivists explain the meaning of words in terms of the .