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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452127003321

Autore

Castañeda Hector-Neri <1924->

Titolo

Thinking, language, and experience [[electronic resource] /] / Hector-Neri Castañeda

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1989

ISBN

0-8166-5539-1

1-4356-0605-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Disciplina

128/.2

Soggetti

Thought and thinking

Semantics (Philosophy)

Language and languages - Philosophy

Experience

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Introduction; 1. Major Objective, Grand Strategy, Chief Topics; 2. The Four Mechanisms of Singular Reference: Our Chief Topics; 3. The Hierarchical Web of Reference; 4. Some Data: A Pentacostal Miracle in Reverse; 5. Strategic Plan and Major Methodological Focus and Constraints; 6. Some Major Theses Developed in the Ensuing Studies; Notes; Part I. The Language of Singular Reference; Chapter 2. The Semantics and the Causal Roles of Proper Names in Our Thinking of Particulars: The Restricted-Variable/Retrieval View of Proper Names

Chapter 3. Singular DescriptionsChapter 4. Indexical Reference is Experiential Reference; Chapter 5. Attributing Reference to Others: The Language of Other Minds; Part II. Reference and Experience; Chapter 6. Perception: Its Internal Indexical Accusatives and Their Implicit Quasi-Indexical Representation; Chapter 7. Deliberation, Intentional Action, and Indexical Reference; Chapter 8. Personality, Anaphora, and Verbal Tenses; Chapter 9. God and Knowledge: Omniscience and Indexical Reference; Chapter 10. Self and Reality: Metaphysical Internalism, Selves, and the Holistic Indivisible Noumenon



Chapter 11. Fiction and Reality: Ontological Questions about Literary ExperienceChapter 12. The Language of Other Minds: Indicators and Quasi-Indicators; Part III. A Semantic and Ontological Theory for the Language of Experience: Guise Theory; Chapter 13. Thinking and the Structure of the World; Chapter 14. Method, Individuals, and Guise Theory; Index; Author Index; Subject Index