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200 10$aLanguage, names, and information /$fFrank Jackson
210   $aMalden, MA $cWiley-Blackwell$d2010
215   $a1 online resource (172 p.)
225 1 $aThe Blackwell/Brown lectures in philosophy ;$v3
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311 08$a9781405161589 
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aLanguage, Names, and Information; Contents; Prologue; Lecture One: The Debate Over the Theory of Reference for Proper Names; Lecture Two: Understanding, Representation, Information; Lecture Three: Ir-content and the Set of Worlds Where a Sentenceis True; Lecture Four: Two Spaceism; Lecture Five: The Informational Value of Names; References; Index
330   $aLanguage, Names, and Information is an important contribution to philosophy of language by one of its foremost scholars, challenging the pervasive view that the description theory of proper names is dead in the water, and defending a version of the description theory from a perspective on language that sees words as a wonderful source of information about the nature of the world we live in.Challenges current pervasive view that the description theory of reference for proper names has been refutedDiscusses several topics at the center of current debates, including representat
410  0$aBlackwell/Brown lectures in philosophy ;$v3.
606   $aDiscourse analysis
606   $aPsycholinguistics
606   $aConsciousness
606   $aLinguistics$xMethodology
615  0$aDiscourse analysis.
615  0$aPsycholinguistics.
615  0$aConsciousness.
615  0$aLinguistics$xMethodology.
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