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Title Two-dimensional semantics / edited by Manuel García-Carpintero and Josep Macià.

Publication Info. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 355 pages)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents Contents; List of Contributors; 1. Introduction; 2. Pragmatic Analyses of Anaphoric Pronouns: Do Things Look Better in 2-D?; 3. Bad Intensions; 4. The Foundations of Two-Dimensional Semantics; 5. Reference, Contingency, and the Two-Dimensional Framework; 6. Comment on 'Two Notions of Necessity'; 7. Two-Dimensionalism: A Neo-Fregean Interpretation; 8. Phenomenal Belief, Phenomenal Concepts, and Phenomenal Properties in a Two-Dimensional Framework; 9. Rationalism, Morality, and Two Dimensions; 10. Indexical Concepts and Compositionality; 11. Keeping Track of Objects in Conversation.
12. Kripke, the Necessary Aposteriori, and the Two-Dimensionalist Heresy13. Assertion Revisited: On the Interpretation of Two-Dimensional Modal Semantics; 14. Two-Dimensionalism and Kripkean A Posteriori Necessity; 15. No Fool's Cold: Notes on Illusions of Possibility; Index.
Summary According to two-dimensional semantics, the meaning of an expression involves two different "dimensions": one dimension involves reference and truth-conditions of a familiar sort, while the other dimension involves the way that reference and truth-conditions depend on the external world (for example, reference and truth-conditions might be held to depend on which individuals and substances are present in the world, or on which linguistic conventions are in place). A number of. different two-dimensional frameworks have been developed, and these have been applied to a number of fundame.
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Subject Semantics.
Semantics.
Semantics (Philosophy)
Semantics (Philosophy)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author García-Carpintero, Manuel.
Macià, Josep.
Other Form: Print version: Two-dimensional semantics. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006 (DLC) 2006006147
ISBN 9780191533976 (electronic book)
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