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Meaning, expression, and thought /

This philosophical treatise on the foundations of semantics is a systematic effort to clarify, deepen, and defend the classical doctrine that words are conventional signs of mental states, principally thoughts and ideas, and that meaning consists in their expression.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Davis, Wayne A., 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Colección:Cambridge studies in philosophy.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Speaker meaning
  • Expression
  • Alternative analyses
  • Communication
  • Reference
  • Languages
  • Basic word meaning
  • Conventions
  • Compositional word meaning
  • Living languages
  • Thought
  • Sentences, propositions, and thoughts
  • The constituency thesis
  • Ideas or concepts
  • The possession of concepts
  • The acquisition of concepts
  • The association of ideas
  • Objects, images, and conceptions
  • The language of thought hypothesis
  • Objections to ideational theories
  • Priority objections
  • Incompleteness objections.