Philosophical Essays: Natural Language: What It Means and How We Use It
Princeton University Press (2009)
| Abstract | The origins of these essays -- Introduction -- Presupposition -- A projection problem for speaker presupposition -- Language and linguistic competence -- Linguistics and psychology -- Semantics and psychology -- Semantics and semantic competence -- The necessity argument -- Truth, meaning, and understanding -- Truth and meaning in perspective -- Semantics and pragmatics -- Naming and asserting -- The gap between meaning and assertion : why what we literally say often differs from what our words literally mean -- Drawing the line between meaning and implicaturem and relating both to assertion -- Descriptions -- Incomplete definite descriptions -- Donnellan's referential/attributive distinction -- Why incomplete descriptions don't refute Russell's theory of descriptions -- Meaning and use : lessons for legal interpretation -- Interpreting legal texts : what is and what is not special about the law. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Language and languages Philosophy Linguistics Semantics | |||||||||
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| Call number | P107.S67 2009 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 9780691136806 | |||||||||
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