| Description |
x, 355 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Bradford books |
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Bradford book.
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| Contents |
1. Direct proper functions -- 2. Adapted devices and adapted and derived proper functions -- 3. Indicatives, imperatives and Gricean intentions -- 4. Language device types; dictionary senses; stabilizing proper function as the first aspect of meaning -- 5. Intentionality as a natural phenomenon -- 6. Intentional icons: Fregean sense, reference and real value introduced -- 7. Kinds of signs -- 8. Hubots, rumans and others: case studies of intensions, senses, an 'stimulus meanings' -- 9. Intension: then third aspect of meaning -- |
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10. Simple indexicals -- 11. Descriptions -- 12. 'Is' and 'exists': represented referents and protoreferents -- 13. Quotation marks, 'says that' and 'believes that' -- 14. 'Not' and 'all': two more kinds of indefinite description -- 15. The act of identifying -- 16. Notes on the identity of substances and properties -- 17. Notes on the identity of enduring objects -- 18. Epistemology of identity: the law of noncontradicitopn -- 19. Epistemology of identity: concepts, laws and intrusive information |
| Analysis |
Philosophy of language |
| Notes |
"A Bradford book." |
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Includes indexes |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [335]-343 |
| Subject |
Identity (Philosophical concept)
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Intention (Logic)
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Language and languages -- Philosophy.
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Semantics (Philosophy)
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| LC no. |
83022276 |
| ISBN |
0262131951 |
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