TY  - BOOK
AU  - Soames,Scott
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Philosophical essays: what it means and how we use it 
T2  - Philosophical essays
AV  - P107 .S67 2009eb
U1  - 410.9 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Linguistics
KW  - Semantics
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/strathmore/Doc?id=10443127
ER  -