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Soames Scott |
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Philosophical Essays . Volume 1 Philosophical Essays, Volume 1 ; Natural Language: What It Means and How We Use It / / Scott Soames |
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Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2008] |
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©2009 |
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1-282-96496-8 |
9786612964961 |
1-4008-3784-7 |
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[Course Book] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (441 p.) |
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Collana |
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Philosophical Essays ; ; Volume 1 |
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Soggetti |
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Language and languages -- Philosophy |
Linguistics |
Semantics |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- The Origins of These Essays -- Introduction -- PART ONE. Presupposition -- ESSAY ONE. A Projection Problem for Speaker Presuppositions -- ESSAY TWO. Presupposition -- PART TWO. Language and Linguistic Competence -- ESSAY THREE. Linguistics and Psychology -- ESSAY FOUR. Semantics and Psychology -- ESSAY FIVE. Semantics and Semantic Competence -- ESSAY SIX. The Necessity Argument -- ESSAY SEVEN. Truth, Meaning, and Understanding -- PART THREE. Semantics and Pragmatics -- ESSAY NINE. Naming and Asserting -- ESSAY TEN. The Gap between Meaning and Assertion: Why What We Literally Say Often Differs from What Our Words Literally Mean -- ESSAY ELEVEN. Drawing the Line between Meaning and Implicature - and Relating Both to Assertion -- Part Four. Descriptions -- ESSAY TWELVE. Incomplete Definite Descriptions -- ESSAY THIRTEEN. Donnellan's Referential/Attributive Distinction -- ESSAY FOURTEEN. Why Incomplete Definite Descriptions Do Not Defeat Russell's Theory of Descriptions -- PART FIVE. Meaning and Use: Lessons for Legal Interpretation -- ESSAY FIFTEEN. Interpreting Legal Texts: What Is, and What Is Not, Special about the Law -- Index |
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The two volumes of Philosophical Essays bring together the most important essays written by one of the world's foremost philosophers of language. Scott Soames has selected thirty-one essays spanning nearly three decades of thinking about linguistic meaning and the philosophical significance of language. A judicious collection of old and new, these volumes include sixteen essays published in the 1980's and 1990's, nine published since 2000, and six new essays. The essays in Volume 1 investigate what linguistic meaning is; how the meaning of a sentence is related to the use we make of it; what we should expect from empirical theories of the meaning of the languages we speak; and how a sound theoretical grasp of the intricate relationship between meaning and use can improve the interpretation of legal texts. The essays in Volume 2 illustrate the significance of linguistic concerns for a broad range of philosophical topics--including the relationship between language and thought; the objects of belief, assertion, and other propositional attitudes; the distinction between metaphysical and epistemic possibility; the nature of necessity, actuality, and possible worlds; the necessary a posteriori and the contingent a priori; truth, vagueness, and partial definition; and skepticism about meaning and mind. The two volumes of Philosophical Essays are essential for anyone working on the philosophy of language. |
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