Terms and truth : reference direct and anaphoric /

In this book, Alan Berger further develops the new theory of reference -- as formulated by Kripke and Putnam -- applying it in novel ways to many philosophical problems concerning reference and existence. Berger argues that his notion of anaphoric background condition and anaphoric links within a li...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Berger, Alan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2002.
©2002
Series:Bradford Bks.
Subjects:
Reference (Philosophy)
Anaphora (Linguistics)
Language and languages > Philosophy.
Référence (Philosophie)
Anaphore.
Langage et langues > Philosophie.
PHILOSOPHY > Epistemology.
Referentie.
Anafora.
PHILOSOPHY/General
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. A distinction between two styles of rigid designation
  • 2. A theory of reference transmission and reference change
  • 3. S-Type terms and their anaphoric chains
  • 4. The disquotational principle, de re and de dicto belief attributions, and an agent's perspective
  • 5. Propositions and belief attributions containg vacuous names
  • 6. Intentinal identity and true negative existential statements
  • 7. Anaphoric pronouns: some proposed analyses
  • 8. A formal semantics for plural quantifications, intersentential binding, and anaphoric pronouns as rigid designators.

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