LEADER 04435nam 22006255 450 001 9910458199503321 005 20210111225031.0 010 $a1-282-96496-8 010 $a9786612964961 010 $a1-4008-3784-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400837847 035 $a(CKB)2560000000055336 035 $a(EBL)664578 035 $a(OCoLC)707067732 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000472071 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11323248 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000472071 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10434974 035 $a(PQKB)10250851 035 $a(DE-B1597)447008 035 $a(OCoLC)979905235 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400837847 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC664578 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000055336 100 $a20190708d2008 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPhilosophical Essays$hVolume 1$iPhilosophical Essays, Volume 1 ; Natural Language: What It Means and How We Use It /$fScott Soames 205 $aCourse Book 210 1$aPrinceton, NJ :$cPrinceton University Press,$d[2008] 210 4$dİ2009 215 $a1 online resource (441 p.) 225 0 $aPhilosophical Essays ;$vVolume 1 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-13681-5 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tThe Origins of These Essays --$tIntroduction --$tPART ONE. Presupposition --$tESSAY ONE. A Projection Problem for Speaker Presuppositions --$tESSAY TWO. Presupposition --$tPART TWO. Language and Linguistic Competence --$tESSAY THREE. Linguistics and Psychology --$tESSAY FOUR. Semantics and Psychology --$tESSAY FIVE. Semantics and Semantic Competence --$tESSAY SIX. The Necessity Argument --$tESSAY SEVEN. Truth, Meaning, and Understanding --$tPART THREE. Semantics and Pragmatics --$tESSAY NINE. Naming and Asserting --$tESSAY TEN. The Gap between Meaning and Assertion: Why What We Literally Say Often Differs from What Our Words Literally Mean --$tESSAY ELEVEN. Drawing the Line between Meaning and Implicature - and Relating Both to Assertion --$tPart Four. Descriptions --$tESSAY TWELVE. Incomplete Definite Descriptions --$tESSAY THIRTEEN. Donnellan's Referential/Attributive Distinction --$tESSAY FOURTEEN. Why Incomplete Definite Descriptions Do Not Defeat Russell's Theory of Descriptions --$tPART FIVE. Meaning and Use: Lessons for Legal Interpretation --$tESSAY FIFTEEN. Interpreting Legal Texts: What Is, and What Is Not, Special about the Law --$tIndex 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aLanguage and languages -- Philosophy 606 $aLinguistics 606 $aSemantics 608 $aElectronic books. 615 4$aLanguage and languages -- Philosophy. 615 4$aLinguistics. 615 4$aSemantics. 676 $a410.9 700 $aSoames$b Scott$0739508 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458199503321 996 $aPhilosophical Essays$92475330 997 $aUNINA