Philosophical essays [electronic resource]. Volume 1, Natural language : what it means and how we use it / Scott Soames.
Series: Burge, Tyler. Philosophical essays ; v. 1.Publication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2009.Description: x, 428 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 410.9 22
- P107 .S67 2009eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The origins of these essays -- Introduction -- Presupposition -- A projection problem for speaker presupposition -- Pt. 2. 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 -- Pt. 3. 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 -- Pt. 4. 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.
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