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J.A. Foster - Philosophy Dictionary of Arguments |
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J.A. Foster (1941-2009), British philosopher. His major works include Meaning and Mind: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language (1974), The Idea of an Ideal Language (1983), and The Limits of Abstraction (2002). His fields of specialization were philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and metaphysics.
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Interpretation: A) Making statements about other statements, whereby new vocabulary may be introduced. If no new vocabulary is introduced, new information can be obtained by changing the syntactic grouping.
B) In logic, interpretation is the insertion of values (objects) instead of the constants or free variables.
_____________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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