Language in the world a philosophical enquiry
What makes the words we speak mean what they do? Possible-worlds semantics articulates the view that the meanings of words contribute to determining, for each sentence, which possible worlds would make the sentence true, and which would make it false. M. J. Cresswell argues that the non-semantic fac...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
1994.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
Cambridge studies in philosophy. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b42010731*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. simple formal language
- 2. Predicates and functors
- 3. isomorphism problem
- 4. Quantification
- 5. Transmundism
- 6. Putnam's 'Meaning of "meaning"'
- 7. Lewis on languages and language
- 8. Causation and semantics
- 9. Belief-desire psychology
- 10. Direct knowledge.
