Meaning and Truth The Essential Readings in Modern Semantics

Name: Meaning and Truth The Essential Readings in Modern Semantics
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ISBN: 9781557783004

ISBN-10: 1557783004

ISBN-13: 9781557783004

Edition: 1998

Authors: Jay L. Garfield, Murray Kiteley

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Contemporary semantic theory rests upon lively theoretical disputes about the meaning of words, the proper form of semantic theory, and, ultimately, on the very possibility of semantic theory itself. Jay L. Garfield and Murray Kiteley have collected, in Meaning and Truth, the definitive articles on the history of semantics and the primary voices debating the interpretation of description, the theory of truth intensionality, the structure of meaning, natural language, and the relation of semantics to pragmatics. The details, complexities, and charming eccentricities of language thus become visible against a background of abstract theory. Undergraduate and graduate students of semantics,…

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List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Paragon House Publishers
Publication date: 6/15/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 656
Size: 6.03" wide x 8.94" long x 1.23" tall
Weight: 1.738



Acknowledgments


Preface


General Introduction




The Beginnings


Introduction


Of Names and Propositions



On Sense and Nominatum



The Semantic Conception of Truth and the Foundations of Semantics Alfred Tarski


On Denoting




On Descriptions


Introduction


On Referring



Mr. Strawson on Referring



Meaning and Necessity



Reference and Definite Descriptions



Speaker's Reference and Semantic Reference



Presupposition and Two-Dimensional Logic



Dthat



On the Logic of Demonstratives




On Tarski


Introduction


Truth and Meaning



Tarski's Theory of Truth



Physicalism and Primitive Denotation: Field on Tarski




Intensionality


Introduction


Quantifiers and Propositional Attitudes



On Saying That



An Overview of Montague Semantics



Subjectivity's Bailiwick and the Person of Its Bailiff




The Structure of Meaning


Introduction


Two Types of Quantifiers



A Logical Theory of Verb-Phrase Deletion



Structured Meanings



Structural Ambiguity




Possible Worlds


Introduction


Propositions



Possible Worlds



Actualism and Possible Worlds



The Trouble with Possible Worlds




Pragmatics


Introduction


On Specificity



Metaphorese



Metaphorical Assertions



The Problem of the Essential Indexical



References