Words without meaning /
According to the received view of linguistic communication, the primary function of language is to enable speakers to reveal the propositional contents of their thoughts to hearers. Speakers are able to do this because they share with their hearers an understanding of the meanings of words. Christop...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©2003.
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Colección: | Contemporary philosophical monographs ;
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: Issue
- 1. Received View
- 2. Mental Representation
- 3. Elements of an Alternative
- Pragmatics
- 4. Domain of Discourse
- 5. Presupposition
- 6. Implicature
- Semantics
- 7. Quantification
- 8. Conditionals
- 9. Truth
- Beliefs
- 10. Communicative Conception
- 11. Explanation and Prediction
- 12. Semantics and Ontology.