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1 online resource (x, 428 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Philosophical essays ; v. 1
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Burge, Tyler.
Philosophical essays ; v. 1.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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 language. A judicious collection of old and new, these volumes include sixteen essays published in the 1980s and 1990s, nine published since 2000, and six new essays. The essays in Volume 1 investigate what linguistic meaning is; how the meaning of a sentence is related to the use we make of it; what we. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Language and languages -- Philosophy.
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Language and languages -- Philosophy. |
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Linguistics.
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Linguistics. |
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Semantics.
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Semantics. |
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Language and languages Philosophy |
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Linguistics |
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Semantics |
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Multi-User. |
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Electronic books.
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Natural language : what it means and how we use it |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Soames, Scott. Philosophical essays. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2009 9780691136806 |
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9781400837847 (electronic book) |
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1400837847 (electronic book) |
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0691136807 |
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9780691136806 |
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0691136815 |
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9780691136813 |
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0691136823 |
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