1st Edition

The Concept of Meaning

By Hill, Thomas E Copyright 2003
    346 Pages
    by Routledge

    348 Pages
    by Routledge

    First published in 2002. This is Volume VIII of seventeen in the Library of Philosophy series on Metaphysics. Written in 1974, the most significant studies of meaning are rightly focused upon restricted ranges of meanings, but occasional attempts to see the subject in larger perspective are also required. The present inquiry is concerned with meanings of words in languages and of spoken and written sentences, but it is also concerned with a wider spectrum including meanings of spoken and written sentences, of signs and symbols, of physical and historical events, of material objects and mental images, of poems and paintings, of sculptures and symphonies, and even of life and of the universe.

    Chapter I Bearers of Meaning; Chapter II Ways of Meaning; Chapter III Contexts of Meanings; Chapter IV Stimuli and Meanings; Chapter V Responses and Meanings; Chapter VI Referents and Meanings; Chapter VII Verification and Meaning; Chapter VIII Uses and Meanings; Chapter IX Experience Patterns and Meanings; Chapter X Experience Patterns and Varieties of Meaning;

    Biography

    Thomas E. Hill Bloedel Professor of Philosophy, Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota