Language and World

Name: Language and World
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Language and WorldA Defence of Linguistic Idealism\nAuthor(s): Richard Gaskin\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367902582, 978-0367902582\nSynopsis\nThis book defends a version of linguistic idealism, the thesis that the world is a product of language. In the course of defending this radical thesis, Gaskin addresses a wide range of topics in contemporary metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophical logic, and syntax theory.\n\nStarting from the context and compositionality principles, and the idea of a systematic theory of meaning in the TarskiDavidson tradition, Gaskin argues that the sentence is the primary unit of linguistic meaning, and that the main aspects of meaning, sense and reference, are themselves theoretical posits. Ontology, which is correlative with reference, emerges as language-driven. This linguistic idealism is combined with a realism that accepts the objectivity of science, and it is acco.