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Peter Ludlow shows how word meanings are much more dynamic than we might have supposed, and explores how they are modulated even during everyday conversation. The resulting view is radical, and has far-reaching consequences for our political and legal discourse, and for enduring puzzles in the foundations of semantics, epistemology, and logic.
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This chapter reviews several puzzles from analytic philosophy and shows that despite their wide variation and differences in appearance they are all at bottom sustained by the same basic mistake: the view of lexical items as fossilized common currency. The puzzles engaged include the probl... see more
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