Meaning and truth in African philosophy : : doing African philosophy with language /

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Publisher: Springer,

Publication date: [2018],

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Note (General)：: Figurative Utterances and Meaning -- Philosophical Framework for Doing African Philosophy -- The Question of an Appropriate Framework -- Central Conce...

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Material Type: 図書
ISBN: 3030019616 (hardback)
9783030019617 (hardback)
Title: Meaning and truth in African philosophy : : doing African philosophy with language /
Publication, Distribution, etc.: Cham, Switzerland : : Springer,
Publication Date: [2018],
Extent: xvii, 169 pages : ; 25 cm.
Contributor: Grivas Muchineripi Kayange.
Text Language Code: eng
NDC 10th ed.: 139.4 : Modern philosophy--Other philosophy
Target Audience: 一般
Note (General): Figurative Utterances and Meaning -- Philosophical Framework for Doing African Philosophy -- The Question of an Appropriate Framework -- Central Concepts from Analytic Philosophy -- Elements of the Adopted Framework in African Philosophy -- Pragmatic Semantics and Chichewa Proverbs -- Sources of Chichewa Proverbs -- Utterance Meaning -- Utterance-Use Meaning -- Meaning of Taboos Using Counterfactual Logic -- Counterfactual Framework -- A List of Taboos and Literal Understanding -- Chewa Causal Statements -- The Chewa Causal Statements as Conditional Statements -- The Chewa Causal Statements as Counterfactual Conditionals -- Conclusion -- Doing African Philosophy with Metaphors -- Doing Philosophy with Metaphors in Cognitive Semantics -- Doing African Philosophy with 'Politics Is a Tripping Game' Metaphor -- Doing Philosophy with 'a Man Is a Woman' Metaphor -- Doing Philosophy with 'Misapplied Metaphors' -- Riddles, Meaning and Rationality, Logic -- Riddles -- African Philosophy and Riddles -- Chichewa Riddles and Use Meaning -- Formal Aspects of the Chichewa Riddles -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- Conclusion -- Conceptual Analysis : Truth, Beauty and Meaning -- The Chewa Logical Concept of Truth -- Logical Concept of Truth in the Analytic Framework -- African Philosophy and the Logical Concept of Truth -- Chewa Logical Concept of Truth -- Formalising the Chewa Logical Concept of Truth -- The Chewa Concept of Beauty and Meaning -- Subjective or Objective Concept of Beauty? -- African Philosophy and the Concept of Beauty -- Chewa Conceptualization of Beauty -- Conclusion -- African Communitarianism (Ubuntu) vs African Individualism through Language -- Conceptual Analysis of Ubuntu, Umunthu and Meaning -- Ubuntu Idealism and Meaning -- Umunthu Word, Lexical Meaning -- Umunthu and Sentence Meaning -- Meaning of umunthu from Figurative Expressions -- Conclusion -- Deducing Individualism in African Society Through the Study of Language -- Individualism -- Individualism from the Meaning of Proverbs -- Individualism Through Indexicals, Demonstratives in Proverbs -- Conclusion -- Correction to : Philosophical Framework for Doing African Philosophy -- Conclusion -- Appendices -- References -- Index.
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Call No.: 139.4-K23-M
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Bibliographic ID (SomokuID): 1352038049
7111829131
OCLC No.: (OCoLC)1084388811
https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/(OCoLC)1084388811