Language, Thought and Reference

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How should we analyse the meaning of proper names, indexicals, demonstratives and definite descriptions? What relation do such expressions stand to the objects they designate or to mental representations of those objects? George Powell casts new light on these and other questions by approaching them from within a cognitive framework.

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'[Powell']s project of deposing truth and placing mind instead at the center of meaning is an ambitious and challenging idea, and it would be very interesting to see its further applications' Piotr Stalmaszczyk - Philosophy in Review