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Mary Brenda Hesse
Favrin, Valentina
2013
Abstract
Mary Brenda Hesse (1924 ) is an English scientist and philosopher of science, who has focused in particular [on the study of science and] on the epistemological debate on the role played by models and analogies in the development of scientific theories. In the literature there are many studies devoted to the reconstruction of her positions in this particular debate. There are, however, fewer studies devoted to the understanding of her theory of language, concept-formation and concept-function. This paper aims to provide a partial reconstruction of the semantic theory proposed by Hesse. In what follows I will examine her views about the function of predicates, the semantic relationship between language and world and, finally, her network theory of meaning.
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EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Source
Valentina Favrin, "Mary Brenda Hesse", in "APhEx 7", 2013, pp. 30
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it
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