{"product_id":"semantics-metasemantics-aboutness-9780198792147","title":"Semantics, Metasemantics, Aboutness","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Ori Simchen\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Language\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSemantics aims to describe the significance (or meaning) of linguistic expressions in a systematic way. Metasemantics, or foundational semantics, asks how expressions gain their significance in the first place - what makes it the case that expressions mean what they do. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMetasemantics has recently been discussed extensively by philosophers of language, philosophers of mind, and philosophically minded linguists and psychologists. A large concern is semantic indeterminacy, the worry that there is no fact of the matter as to the semantic significance of our words. Ori Simchen offers a distinctly metasemantic strategy to counter this threat. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eSemantics, Metasemantics, Aboutness\u003c\/em\u003e is the first book-length treatment of metasemantics and its relation to the thriving research program of truth-conditional semantics.","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46492119040151,"sku":"9780198792147","price":8998.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780198792147.jpg?v=1766351741","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/semantics-metasemantics-aboutness-9780198792147","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}