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.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2003.
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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.