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Philosophical essays. what it means and how we use it / Volume 1, Natural language :
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...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
©2009.
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| Collection: | Burge, Tyler. Philosophical essays ;
v. 1. |
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.