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- Condition
- Brand
- Clarendon Press
- UPC
- Not Specified
- MPN
- 9.7802E+12
- Model
- 9.7802E+12
- Country of Origin
- USA United States
- Net Quantity or Number of Units
- 1
- Dimensions LxWxH - Cms
- 9.3x1.4x6.3
- ISBN-10
- 0199261652
- ISBN-13
- 9780199261659
- SKU
- SONG0199261652
- No of Pages
- 463
- Item Length
- 9.3
- ISBN
- 9780199261659
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Type
- Study Guide
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Nondescriptive Meaning and Reference: an Ideational Semantics
- Item Height
- 242mm
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Topic
- Popular Philosophy
- Item Width
- 165mm
- Item Weight
- 840g
- Number of Pages
- 466 Pages
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Nondescriptive Meaning and Reference extends Wayne Davis's groundbreaking work on the foundations of semantics. Davis revives the classical doctrine that meaning consists in the expression of ideas, and advances the expression theory by showing how it can account for standard proper names, and the distinctive way their meaning determines their reference. He also shows how the theory can handle interjections, syncategorematic terms, conventional implicatures, and other cases long seen as difficult for both ideational and referential theories. The expression theory is founded on the fact that thoughts are event types with a constituent structure, and that thinking is a fundamental propositional attitude, distinct from belief and desire. Thought parts ('ideas' or 'concepts') are distinguished from both sensory images and conceptions. Word meaning is defined recursively: sentences and other complex expressions mean what they do in virtue of what thought parts their component words express and what thought structure the linguistic structure expresses; and unstructured words mean what they do in living languages in virtue of evolving conventions to use them to express ideas. The difficulties of descriptivism show that the ideas expressed by names are atomic or basic. The reference of a name is the extension of the idea it expresses, which is determined not by causal relations, but by its identity or content together with the nature of objects in the world. Hence a name's reference is dependent on, but not identical to, its meaning. A name is directly and rigidly referential because the extension of the idea it expresses is not determined by the extensions of component ideas. The expression theory thus has the strength of Fregeanism without its descriptivist bias, and of Millianism without its referentialist or causalist shortcomings. The referential properties of ideas can be set out recursively by providing a generative theory of ideas, assigning extensions to atomic ideas, and formulating rules whereby the semantic value of a complex idea is determined by the semantic values of its components. Davis also shows how referential properties can be treated using situation semantics and possible worlds semantics. The key is to drop the assumption that the values of intension functions are the referents of the words whose meaning they represent, and to abandon the necessity of identity for logical modalities. Many other pillars of contemporary philosophical semantics, such as the twin earth arguments, are shown to be unfounded.
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN-13
9780199261659
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Product Key Features
Book Title
Nondescriptive Meaning and Reference: an Ideational Semantics
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Popular Philosophy
Publication Year
2005
Type
Study Guide
Number of Pages
466 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
242mm
Item Width
165mm
Item Weight
840g
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Topic Area
Developmental Psychology, Data Analysis
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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- a***i (1400)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseAn excellent book lot of valuable information regarding all aspects of sewing. A very rare find as bought from the USA. Which was dispatched and and delivered quickly. Excellent communication throughout the transaction. This book was in very good condition as described and well packaged. Happy to highly recommend this seller with reasonable postage from USA. Many thanks.Step-By-Step Guide to Your Bernina (USED) (#145868882760)