Philosophical essays what it means and how we use it / Volume 1, Natural language :

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Hlavní autor: Soames, Scott
Korporativní autor: ebrary, Inc
Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2009.
Edice:Burge, Tyler. Philosophical essays ; v. 1.
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  • The origins of these essays
  • Introduction
  • Presupposition
  • A projection problem for speaker presupposition
  • Pt. 2. Language and linguistic competence
  • 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
  • Meaning and use : lessons for legal interpretation
  • Interpreting legal texts : what is and what is not special about the law.