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On Referents and Reference Fixing

From the book Volume 3 Prospects for Meaning

  • Howard Wettstein
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110216882.107
From the book
Volume 3 Prospects for Meaning
Volume 3 Prospects for Meaning

Chapters in this book (34)

Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
I Meaning and Reference
The Puzzle That Never Was—Referential Mechanics
Reference and Meaning
Still Against Direct Reference
On Meaning, Meaning and Meaning
On Referents and Reference Fixing
II Truth-theoretic Semantics
On Some Examples of Chomsky’s
Truth, Meaning and Contextualism
Expression, Truth, Predication, and Context: Two Perspectives
Prospects for a Truth-conditional Account of Standing Meaning
A Very Large Fly in the Ointment: Davidsonian Truth Theory Contextualized
From Truth Conditions to Structured Propositions
Five Flies in the Ointment: Some Challenges for Traditional Semantic Theory
III Meaning Skepticism
Against Meaning-Skepticism
Phenomenal Intentionality and Content Determinacy
Semantic Realism and the Argument from Motivational Internalism
IV The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Meaning and Content
Meaning and Content in Cognitive Science
Knowledge of Meaning and Epistemic Interdependence
Meaning and Ontology
Matter and Meaning
Meaning, Communication and Knowledge by Testimony
Semantics Without Meanings? Sellarsian “Patterned Governed Behavior” and the Space of Meaningfulness
Externalism and Inexistence in Early Content
Propositions, What Are They Good For?
Meaning as a Biological and Social Phenomenon
Three Kinds of Meanings
V Formal Semantics
Requirements on a Theory of Sentence and Word Meanings
Quantification and Anaphora in Natural Language
Equivalence of Semantic Theories
Notes on Contributors
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
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