Simple Sentences, Substitution, and Intuitions

By Jennifer M. Saul

Book Overview

The phenomenon of substitution failure is a longstanding focus of discussion for philosophers of language. Substitution failure occurs when a change from one co-referential name to another (e.g. from 'Superman' to 'Clark Kent') affects the truth-value of a sentence. Jennifer Saul has shown that this can occur even in the simplest of sentences. She presents the first full-length treatment of this puzzling feature of language, and explores its implications for the theory of reference and names, and for the methodology of semantics.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199575649
• ISBN13: 9780199575640
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"