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Reference and referring /
Original essays on reference and referring by leading scholars that combine breadth of coverage with thematic unity. These fifteen original essays address the core semantic concepts of reference and referring from both philosophical and linguistic perspectives. After an introductory essay that casts...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©2013.
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| Colección: | Topics in contemporary philosophy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; 1 Reference and Referring ; Introduction; The Content Approach; Semantics, Metasemantics, and the Metaphysics of Content; Reference and the Content Approach; The Fregean Version of the Content Approach; Direct Reference Challenges to the Fregean Approach; Challenges for Direct Reference; The Mechanism of Reference; The Role of a Theory of Reference; The Semantics of Other Kinds of Referring Expressions; Notes; References; 2 Descriptivism and the Representation of Spatial Location; 1 The Background; 2 The Reference Argument; 3 The Reidentification Argument
- 4 Concluding RemarksAcknowledgments; Notes; References; 3 Empirical Data and the Theory of Reference; 1 Experimental Philosophy and Experimental Semantics; 2 Cross-Culturalism; 3 The First Test; 4 New Experiments and New Arguments; 5 The Input of Semantic Theorizing; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; 4 Two Versions of Millianism; From Semantic Content to Assertive Content; An Assumption about Relational Quantification; A Semantic Difference That Might Make an Empirical Difference; The Contents of Discourses; Two Further Difficulties; Coordination and the Metaphysics of Propositions
- Appendix: Can Ambiguity Save Semantic Relationism?Notes; References; 5 Semantic Stipulation and Knowledge De Re; 1 Introduction; 2 The Puzzle; 3 What the Puzzle Is a Puzzle About; 4 Replies; 5 Two New Proposals; 6 Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; 6 Hob, Nob, and Mythical Witches; 1 The Metaphysics of Mythical Witches; 2 Ambiguities and Geach's Sentence; 3 Salmon's Analysis of Geach's Sentence; 4 The Content Objection to Salmon's Theory; 5 A Salmonian Pragmatics; 6 A Modified Salmonian Pragmatic Theory; 7 Do Hob and Nob Think about Some Entity?
- 8 An Alternative Explanation of Geachian IntuitionsAppendix; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; 7 From Having in Mind to Direct Reference; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; 8 Necessity in Reference; 1 Kaplan's Question; 2 The Nature of Tokens; 3 The Nature of Referential Intentions; 4 Putting It All Together; 5 Concluding Complications; Appendix; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; 9 Has the Theory of Reference Rested on a Mistake?; 1 Preliminaries; 2 Characterizing the Descriptivist Picture; 3 Characterizing the Historical Chain Picture; 4 Consumers Have No Determination; Acknowledgments
- NotesReferences; 10 Referring to What Is and to What Isn't; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; 11 Reference and Jazz Combo Theories of Meaning; 1 Preliminaries; 2 Jazz Combo Theory and the Priority of the Sentence; 3 The Cause- Norm Gap; 4 Jazz Combo Theories and the Social-Dialectical Nature of Objectivity; 5 Wherein Is the Sentence Prior to the Constituent?; 6 Conclusion; Notes; References; 12 Quantification and Conversation; 1 Introduction; 2 The Intuitive Evidence Favors Generalism; 3 The Context-Shifting Reply; 4 The Binding Argument; 5 The Availability Hypothesis; 6 The Scope Principle