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"Michael Dummett is one of the most important and influential of contemporary philosophers. This book covers his work on metaphysics and the philosophy of language, two branches of philosophy that are closely intertwined. It contains twenty essays that have not appeared in his previous collections Truth and Other Enigmas and Frege and Other Philosophers. Of these essays, four (marked *) are previously unpublished, one (+) appears in English for the first time, and others have not been easily accessible until now. The two central questions addressed here are: What is it for a word or a sentence to mean what it does? and What is it for a statement to be true? These fundamental questions continue to perplex philosophers. This collection represents a fascinating and indispensable contribution to the project of resolving this perplexity. - ;A major new collection of essays by Michael Dummett, a leading contemporary philosopher."
"Dummett defends the verificationist theory of meaning, i.e. to know the meaning of a statement one must be in possession of a procedure to verify it. He also argues for the link between bivalence and the metaphysical doctrine of realism. Other topics include refutation of instrumentalism, mathematical applicability, and more."
"Michael Dummett is one of the most important and influential of contemporary philosophers; this book covers his work on metaphysics and the philosophy of language, two branches of philosophy that are closely intertwined. It contains twenty essays that have not appeared in his previous collections Truth and Other Enigmas and Frege and Other Philosophers; of these essays, three are previously unpublished, one appears here in English for the first time, and others have been difficult of access until now. The two central questions addressed here are: What is it for a word or a sentence to mean what it does? What is it for a statement to be true? These fundamental questions continue to perplex philosophers. This collection represents a fascinating and indispensable contribution to the project of resolving this perplexity."

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