Pragmatics, Truth, and Language
Richard Martin's thoroughly philosophical as well as thoroughly tech nical investigations deserve continued and appreciative study. His sympathy and good cheer do not obscure his rigorous standard, nor do his contemporary sophistication and intellectual independence obscure his critical congen...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1979, 1979
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1979 |
| Series: | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- I. Truth and Its Illicit Surrogates
- II. Some Reminders concerning Truth, Satisfaction, and Reference
- III. On Disquotation and Intensionality
- IV. On Truth, Belief, and Modes of Description
- V. The Pragmatics of Self-Reference
- VI. On Suppositio and Denotation
- VII. Of Time and the Null Individual
- VIII. Existence and Logical Form
- IX. Tense, Aspect, and Modality
- X. Of ‘Of’
- XI. Events and Actions: Brand and Kim
- XII. Why I Am Not a Montague Grammarian
- XIII. The Truth about Kripke’s “Truth”
- XIV. On Possibilia and Essentiality: Ruth Marcus
- XV. On the Language of Causal Talk: Scriven and Suppes
- XVI. A Reading of Frege on Sense and Designation
- XVII. ‘And’
- XVIII. Some Protolinguistic Transformations
- XIX. Some Hi?ian Heresies
- XX. Mathematical Nominalism
- XXI. Of Logic, Learning, and Language
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects