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Nondescriptive Meaning and Reference: An Ideational Semantics
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ISBN10: 0199261652
ISBN13: 9780199261659
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: Sep 1 2005
Pages: 466
Weight: 1.82
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780199261659
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: Sep 1 2005
Pages: 466
Weight: 1.82
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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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