Philosophical essays [electronic resource]. Volume 1, Natural language : what it means and how we use it / Scott Soames.

By: Soames, ScottContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Burge, Tyler. Philosophical essays: v. 1.Publication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2009Description: x, 428 pISBN: 9781400837847 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Language and languages -- Philosophy | Linguistics | SemanticsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 410.9 LOC classification: P107 | .S67 2009Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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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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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