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Autore |
Forbes Graeme |
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Titolo |
Attitude problems [[electronic resource] ] : an essay on linguistic intensionality / / Graeme Forbes |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Oxford, : Clarendon |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-16461-5 |
9786611164614 |
0-19-153456-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (207 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Grammar, Comparative and general - Verb |
Grammar, Comparative and general - Transitivity |
English language - Verb |
English language - Transitivity |
Semantics |
Intention (Logic) |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-187) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Preface; Table of Contents; Chapter 1: Compositionality; Chapter 2: A Brief Guide to Type Theory; Chapter 3: Intensional Transitives; Chapter 4: Propositionalism; Chapter 5: Quantifiers and Characterization; Chapter 6: Unspecificity and Inference; Chapter 7: Verbs of Creation and Depiction; Chapter 8: Substitutivity; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Ascriptions of mental states to oneself and others give rise to many interesting logical and semantic problems. Attitude Problems presents an original account of mental state ascriptions that are made using intensional transitive verbs such as 'want', 'seek', 'imagine', and 'worship'. Forbes offers a theory of how such verbs work that draws on ideas from natural language semantics, philosophy of language, and aesthetics. - ;Ascriptions of mental states to oneself and others give rise to many interesting logical and semantic problems. Attitude |
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