The things we mean

The things we mean / Stephen Schiffer.

Stephen Schiffer presents an innovative account of meaning and belief and shows how it can illuminate a range of crucial problems regarding language, mind, knowledge and ontology. He introduces the new doctrine of 'pleonastic propositions' to provide accounts of linguistic meaning and know...

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Main Author: Schiffer, Stephen R.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon ; Oxford University Press, 2003.
Subjects:
Meaning (Philosophy)
Philosophy of mind.
PHILOSOPHY > Epistemology.
Philosophy of mind
Betekenis.
Proposities.
Mentale representatie.
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Table of Contents:
  • The face-value theory
  • Pleonastic propositions
  • Meanings and knowledge of meaning
  • Having meaning
  • Vagueness and indeterminacy
  • Moral realism and indeterminacy
  • Conditionals and indeterminacy
  • Why pleonastic propositions? Content in information and explanation.

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