Semantic Analysis (book)
Encyclopedia
Semantic Analysis is a book
written
by american
philosopher
Paul Ziff
. It was first published in 1960 but has been reprinted at least four times since.
of language
, and particularly the word "Good" as it is used in English
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. The book has six chapters (Language, Semantic Analysis, Conditions, Truth Conditions, Meaning, The Word 'Good'), a bibliography and an index.
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by american
United States
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philosopher
Philosophy
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Paul Ziff
Paul Ziff
Paul Ziff was an American artist and philosopher specializing in semantics and aesthetics.-Career:...
. It was first published in 1960 but has been reprinted at least four times since.
Synopsis
The book is, as the title suggests, about a semantic analysisSemantic analysis
Semantic analysis may refer to:*Semantic analysis *Semantic analysis *Semantic analysis *Semantic analysis *Semantic Analysis a 1960 book by philosopher Paul Ziff....
of language
Language
Language may refer either to the specifically human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication, or to a specific instance of such a system of complex communication...
, and particularly the word "Good" as it is used in English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
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Composition
The book is written in a large number of numbered paragraphs 246 to be exact. It also includes a short preface. The writing style is thus similar to Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-PhilosophicusTractatus Logico-Philosophicus
The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is the only book-length philosophical work published by the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein in his lifetime. It was an ambitious project: to identify the relationship between language and reality and to define the limits of science...
. The book has six chapters (Language, Semantic Analysis, Conditions, Truth Conditions, Meaning, The Word 'Good'), a bibliography and an index.