Philosophical essays what it means and how we use it / Volume 1, Natural language :
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Princeton :
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c2009.
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| Series: | Burge, Tyler. Philosophical essays ;
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Table of Contents:
- 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.