{"product_id":"9780192509994","title":"Semantics, Metasemantics, Aboutness","description":"Semantics aims to describe the significance (or meaning) of linguistic expressions in a systematic way.  Metasemantics, or foundational semantics, asks how expressions gain their significance in the first place - what makes it the case that expressions mean what they do.  Metasemantics has recently been discussed extensively by philosophers of language, philosophers of mind, and philosophically minded linguists and psychologists. A large concern is semantic indeterminacy, the worry that there is no fact of the matter as to the semantic significance of our words. Ori Simchen offers a distinctly metasemantic strategy to counter this threat.  Semantics, Metasemantics, Aboutness is the first book-length treatment of metasemantics and its relation to the thriving research program of truth-conditional semantics.","brand":"OUP Oxford","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47124537934064,"sku":"9780192509994","price":59.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780192509994_p0.jpg?v=1763661794","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780192509994","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}