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Varieties of Tone

Frege, Dummett and the Shades of Meaning
By:R. Kortum
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781137263537
eText ISBN:9781137263544
Edition:0
Copyright:2013
Format:Reflowable

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In clear and lively prose that avoids jargon, the author carefully and systematically examines the many kinds of subtly nuanced words or word-pairs of everyday discourse such as 'and'-'but', 'before'-'ere', 'Chinese'-'Chink', and 'sweat'-'perspiration', that have proven resistant to truth-conditional explanations of meaning.