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The two volumes of Philosophical Essays bring together the most important essays written by one of the world's foremost philosophers of language. Scott Soames has selected thirty-one essays spanning nearly three decades of thinking about linguistic meaning and the philosophical significance of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Soames, Scott
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2009.
Colección:Burge, Tyler. Philosophical essays ; v. 1.
Temas:
Language and languages > Philosophy.
Linguistics.
Semantics.
Linguistics
Semantics
Langage et langues > Philosophie.
Linguistique.
Sémantique.
linguistics.
semantics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Historical & Comparative.
PHILOSOPHY > General.
Language and languages > Philosophy
Philosophie
JSTOR-DDA
Multi-User.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • pt. 1. Presupposition
  • A projection problem for speaker presupposition
  • Language and linguistic competence
  • p. 2. Linguistics and psychology
  • Semantics and psychology
  • Semantics and semantic competence
  • The necessity argument
  • Truth, meaning, and understanding
  • Truth and meaning in perspective
  • pt. 3. Semantics and pragmatics
  • Naming and asserting
  • The gap between meaning and assertion : why what we literally say often differs from what our words literally mean
  • Drawing the line between meaning and implicaturem and relating both to assertion
  • pt. 4. Descriptions
  • Incomplete definite descriptions
  • Donnellan's referential/attributive distinction
  • Why incomplete descriptions don't refute Russell's theory of descriptions
  • pt. 5. Meaning and use : lessons for legal interpretation
  • Interpreting legal texts : what is and what is not special about the law.

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