文档介绍:Semantic Relationism
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1 Semantic Relationism by Kit Fine
Semantic Relationism
Kit Fine
© 2007 by Kit Fine
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Fine, Kit.
Semantic relationism / Kit Fine.
p. cm. —(The Blackwell/Brown lectures in philosophy)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-0843-0 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. Semantics. 2. Semantics (Philosophy) I. Title.
2007
—dc22
2007003774
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