The philosophy of language is not an isolated philosophical discipline of                  merely technical interest to other philosophers. Rather, as Mark Platts shows, the                  philosophy of language can help to solve traditional problems in other areas of                  philosophy, such as metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics. Ways of Meaning provides                  a clear, comprehensive introduction to such issues at the forefront of philosophy.                  Assuming only minimum knowledge of elementary formal logic, the book shows how                  taking truth as the central notion in the theory of meaning can clarify the                  relations between language, reality, and knowledge, and thus illuminate the nature                  of each.This second edition of the book contains a new chapter on the notions of                  natural-kind words and natural kinds. Unlike other discussions of the subject, this                  one places the semantic issues involved in the context of questions about the                  relations between knowing subjects and known objects. The author has also added a                  bibliography of further readings published since the first edition appeared in                  1979.

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