Words and thoughts subsentences, ellipsis, and the philosophy of language

It is a near truism of philosophy of language that sentences are prior to words - that they are the only things that fundamentally have meaning. This work interrogates this idea drawing on a body of evidence to argue that speakers can and do use mere words, not sentences, to communicate complex thou...

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Main Author: Stainton, Robert
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Clarendon 2006, 2006
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