Conventions of Language

In David Kellogg Lewis (ed.), Convention: A Philosophical Study. Cambridge, MA, USA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 160–202 (1969)
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This chapter contains section titled: Possible Languages Grammars Semantics in a Possible Language Conventions of Truthfulness Semantics in a Population.

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10.1002/9780470693711.ch5

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David K. Lewis
PhD: Harvard University; Last affiliation: Princeton University

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