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2、entswiththetoolsnecessarytounderstandcontemporaryanalyticphilosophy.BeginningwithasystematiclookatFrege’sfoundationalthe-oriesonsenseandreference,AlexanderMillergoesontoofferanexceptionallyclearexpositionofthedevelopmentofsubsequentargu-mentsinthephilosophyoflanguag
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4、ht,GriceandTarskiisalsoexaminedindepth.Thisfullyrevisedsecondeditioncontainsseveralnewsectionsonimportanttopicsincluding:•causaltheoriesofreference•thenormativityofmeaning•“factualist”interpretationsofKripke’sWittgenstein•Putnam’s“twin-earth”argumentsforexternalismT
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