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Referential Mechanics - Direct Reference and the Foundations of Semantics

English · Hardback

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This volume is focused on understanding a key idea in modern semantics-direct reference-and its integration into a general semantics for natural language.

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  • Preface

  • Acknowledgements

  • Introduction

  • Part I-Direct Reference by Designation

  • Part II-Direct Reference by Singular Proposition

  • Part III-Direct Reference by Referential Use

  • Part IV-Foundational Questions-Two Central Puzzles

  • Index



About the author

Joseph Almog is the author of Everything in Its Right Place (forthcoming), Cogito: Descartes and Thinking the World (2008), What Am I? Descartes and the Mind-Body Problem (2001) and co-editor of Essays on Reference, Language, and Mind (2012), Having in Mind: The Philosophy of Keith Donnellan (2012), and The Philosophy of David Kaplan (2009) - all from Oxford University Press.

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This volume is focused on understanding a key idea in modern semantics-direct reference-and its integration into a general semantics for natural language.

Product details

Authors Joseph Almog, Joseph (Professor of Philosophy Almog
Publisher Oxford University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 27.03.2014
 
EAN 9780199314379
ISBN 978-0-19-931437-9
No. of pages 176
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics
Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works

PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, Philosophy

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