Proceedings of the 20th World Congress of Philosophy, held at Boston University in 1998. Archive of contributed papers in the subject area of Philosophy of Language. Provided by The Paideia Archive.
keywords: massachusetts
Historical overview by Chad Hansen of interpretations of language in the major schools of philosophical thought in classical China (up to the Han dynasty).
keywords: tzu, names, hui, zhuangzi, xunzi, taoist, taoism, shih, shi, semantics
Acknowledges difficulties in defining the field but suggests a focus mainly on questions of meaning and truth.
keywords: alfred, topics, theory, tarski, system, logic, jules, greimas, ayer, africana