Problems of Semantics A Contribution to the Analysis of the Language Science

Tondl, Ladislav und David Short:

ISBN 10: 9027703167 / ISBN 13: 9789027703163

Published by Dordrecht, Holland : Reidel, 1981

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403 Pages.; With Figures Original Broschur mit Bibliotheksschild auf Vorderdeckel. Leicht berieben. Innen mit den übl. Bibliotheksstempeln- u. Einträgen, teils durchgestrichen, sehr sauberes Exemplar. - Original Paperback with Library label on front cover. Lightly rubbed. Inside with the usual library stamps and inscriptions, partially crossed out, in very good condition. English Language B12-04-04B|S33 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 614 Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science ; Volume 66.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Problems of Semantics A Contribution to the Analysis of the Language Science
• Publisher: Dordrecht, Holland : Reidel
• Publication Date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027703167
• ISBN 13: 9789027703163
• Binding: 22 x 15 cm
• Condition: Gut
• Weight: 614 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modernes Antiquariat

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Synopsis

Ladislav Tondl's insightful investigations into the language of the sciences bear directly upon some decisive points of confrontation in modern philos­ ophy of science and of language itself. In the decade since his Scientific Procedures was published in English (Boston Studies 11), Dr Tondl has enlarged his original monograph of 1966 on the promise, problems and achievements of modern semantics: the main topic of his later work has been semantic information theory. A Russian translation, considerably expanded as a second edition, was published in 1975 (Moscow, Progress Publishers) with an appreciative critical commentary, in the form of a conclusion, by Professor Avenir I. Uemov of Odessa. Indeed many Soviet studies in the problems of the semantics of science show the same sort of philosophical curiosity about the relationship of meanings in scientific language to pro­ cedures in scientific epistemology that characterizes Tondl's work, as in the work of Mirislav Popovich (Kiev) and Vadirn Sadovsky (Moscow) and their colleagues. But we know that interest in these matters is world-wide, ranging from such classical topics as sense and denotation, empiricist reduction, vagueness and denotational opacity, to the new and equally exciting topics of the semantics of non-unique preference choices, the nuances of informational synonymity, and the semantics of a picture shape (so briefly but beautifully sketched in Tondl's dense and promising last chapter). We are pleased to have had Tondl's kind cooperation in producing this English edition, actually a third edition, of his research about semantics.