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Max Black (1909-1988), Azerbaijani-born British-American philosopher. His major works include The Nature of Mathematics (1933), Language and Philosophy (1949), and Problems of Analysis (1954). His fields of specialization were philosophy of language, the philosophy of mathematics, and the philosophy of science.
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Meaning: Differs from the reference object (reference). The object does not have to exist for an expression to have a meaning. Words are not related to objects in a one-to-one correspondence. There is an important distinction between word meaning and sentence meaning. See also use theory, sentence meaning, reference, truth, meaning theory._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. |
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