Thesis
Knowing and understanding
- Alternative title:
- Relations between meaning and truth, meaning and necessary truth, meaning and synthetic necessary truth
- Abstract:
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The avowed aim of the thesis is to show that there are some synthetic necessary truths, or that synthetic apriori knowledge is possible. This is really a pretext for an investigation into the general connection between meaning and truth, or between understanding and knowing, which, as pointed out in the preface, is really the first stage in a more general enquiry concerning meaning. (Not all kinds of meaning are concerned with truth.) After the preliminaries (chapter one), in which the proble...
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Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 1962
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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- Language:
- English
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- Local pid:
- ora:928
- Deposit date:
- 2008-03-14
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- Copyright holder:
- Aaron Sloman
- Copyright date:
- 1962
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