Meaning [Hardcover]

In this new book, the author of the classicTruthpresents an original theory of meaning, demonstrates its richness, and defends it against all contenders. He surveys the diversity of twentieth-century philosophical insights into meaning and shows that his theory can reconcile these with a common-sense view of meaning as derived from use.Meaningand its companion volumeTruth(now published in a revised edition) together demystify two central issues in philosophy and offer a controversial but compelling view of the relations between language, thought, and reality.

1. Introduction
2. Pseudo-Constraints on an Adequate Theory of Meaning
3. Meaning as Use
4. Truth
5. Reference
6. Implicit Definition, Analyticity, and A-priori Knowledge
7. The Composition of Meanings
8. Norms of Language
9. Quelling Quine's Qualms
10. A Straight Solution to Kripke's Sceptical Paradox
Bibliography
Index