| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 654 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in philosophy
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Cambridge studies in philosophy.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 608-644) and index. |
| Contents |
Speaker meaning -- Expression -- Alternative analyses -- Communication -- Reference -- Languages -- Basic word meaning -- Conventions -- Compositional word meaning -- Living languages -- Thought -- Sentences, propositions, and thoughts -- The constituency thesis -- Ideas or concepts -- The possession of concepts -- The acquisition of concepts -- The association of ideas -- Objects, images, and conceptions -- The language of thought hypothesis -- Objections to ideational theories -- Priority objections -- Incompleteness objections. |
| Summary |
This philosophical treatise on the foundations of semantics is a systematic effort to clarify, deepen, and defend the classical doctrine that words are conventional signs of mental states, principally thoughts and ideas, and that meaning consists in their expression. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Semantics (Philosophy)
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Semantics (Philosophy) |
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Language and languages -- Philosophy.
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Language and languages -- Philosophy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Davis, Wayne A., 1951- Meaning, expression, and thought. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003 0521555132 (DLC) 2002073478 (OCoLC)49991528 |
| ISBN |
0511065663 (electronic book) |
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9780511065668 (electronic book) |
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9780511498763 (electronic book) |
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0511498764 (electronic book) |
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9780511067792 (electronic book) |
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0511067798 (electronic book) |
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9780521555135 |
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0521555132 |
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