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The tradition descending from Frege and Russell has typically treated theories of meaning either as theories of meanings (propositions expressed), or as theories of truth conditions. However, propositions of the classical sort don't exist, and truth conditions can't provide all the informa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Soames, Scott
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Proposition (Logic)
Meaning (Philosophy)
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Modern.
PHILOSOPHY > Epistemology.
Proposition (Logique)
Signification (Philosophie)
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Meanings
  • Frege and Russell: the real problem of "the unity of the proposition"
  • Why truth conditions are not enough
  • Propositions and attitudes: Davidson's challenge and Russell's neglected insight
  • Toward a theory of propositions: a deflationary account
  • The cognitive-realist theory of propositions
  • Expanding the cognitive-realist model.

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