''Semantic Analysis'' is a
book
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written
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by
American philosopher
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Paul Ziff. 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 analysis of
language
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, and particularly the word "Good" as it is used in
English.
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-Philosophicus
The ''Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus'' (widely abbreviated and Citation, cited as TLP) is the only book-length philosophical work by the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein that was published during his lifetime. The project had a broad goal ...
. The book has six chapters (Language, Semantic Analysis, Conditions, Truth Conditions, Meaning, The Word 'Good'), a bibliography and an index.
References
*Paul Ziff, "Semantic Analysis, 1960, Cornell University Press
External links
*Paul Benacerraf, "Review: Paul Ziff, Semantic Analysis", Journal of Symbolic Logic, Volume 29, Issue 4 (1964), 193–194
review at projecteuclid.org
Books in semantics
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