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Nondescriptive Meaning and Reference: An Ideational Semantics

By Wayne A. Davis

Book information

Year
2005
ISBN
0199261652, 9780199261659, 9781435622616
LCC
B105.M4 D38 2005
Open Library ID
OL22635815M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2926654 bytes)
Pages
463\465
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07
Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Семантика

Description

Wayne Davis presents a highly original approach to the foundations of semantics, showing how the so-called "expression" theory of meaning can handle names and other problematic cases of nondescriptive meaning. The fact that thoughts have parts ("ideas" or "concepts") is fundamental: Davis argues that like other unstructured words, names mean what they do because they are conventionally used to express atomic or basic ideas. In the process he shows that many pillars of contemporary philosophical semantics, from twin earth arguments to the necessity of identity, are unfounded.

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