Charles Travis
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American philosopher who argues for strong contextualism in meaning
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentEmma BorgElucidations · Episode 27: Emma Borg discusses semantic minimalism · 17:18 · Sep 2011
…So to take one of Travis's most famous examples, you might imagine a girl called Pia saying,…
Emma BorgElucidations · Episode 27: Emma Borg discusses semantic minimalism · 16:58 · Sep 2011
…And of course, the main proponent of these kinds of cases is Charles Travis, who's well known for producing many, many cases of this form, which seem to show us that for sentences where we might intuitively have thought there's really very limited role for a context of utterance, actually we have to allow a much bigger role.…
Jason BridgesElucidations · Episode 12: Jason Bridges discusses contextualism · 10:10 · Jun 2010
…Now, third example, as representative of truly radical contextualism, Charles Travis is perhaps the person most well known for this.…
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