Download or read book Names and Name bearing An Essay on the Predicate View of Names written by Aidan Gray and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the dominant approach in semantics, proper names are semantically-simple referential terms. This view does not sit comfortably with the fact that: 1) there are natural languages in which proper names always occur in the syntactic place of a predicate and 2) even in a language like English in which proper names seem to occur as simple referential expressions (as in 'Alfred is in the kitchen baking pies') they also occur in the role of a predicate (e.g. in 'Three different Alfreds have fallen down this well'). There is a strong temptation, given the supposed simplicity and power of the orthodox approach, to try to explain away these recalcitrant phenomena (perhaps by positing an ambiguity). I argue that this would be a mistake. The basic meaning of a proper name is predicative - 'Alfred' expresses the property of bearing the name 'Alfred'. I develop an account of these metalinguistic properties which both dispels the air of circularity associated with this approach and explains the role that proper names play in discourse. The upshot is a new appreciation of the challenges, as well as the potential insights, associated with fully integrating traditional questions in the philosophy of language with theoretical linguistics, and a new conception of the traditional philosophical puzzles associated with names.
Download or read book The Theory of Proper Names written by Alan Henderson Gardiner and published by London, Oxford U.P. This book was released on 1957 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Living Words written by Peter Ludlow and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Ludlow shows how word meanings are much more dynamic than we might have supposed, and explores how they are modulated even during everyday conversation. The resulting view is radical, and has far-reaching consequences for our political and legal discourse, and for enduring puzzles in the foundations of semantics, epistemology, and logic.
Download or read book Names and Their Varieties written by Kelsie B. Harder and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Co-published with the American Name Society.
Download or read book Theory of Proper Names written by Alan Gardiner and published by Irvington Pub. This book was released on 1984-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Theory of Proper Names a Controversial Essay written by Alan H (Alan Henderson) 1 Gardiner and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Meaning of Proper Names written by Holger Steen Sørensen and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Study of Names written by Frank Nuessel and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1992-09-30 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction and research guide to onomastics, this book covers the major areas of name study in individual chapters on personal names, place names, acronyms, brand names and trade names. Every topic comprises a discussion of underlying principles as well as numerous illustrative examples.
Download or read book In the Space of Reasons written by Wilfrid Sellars and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sellars (1912-1989) was, in the opinion of many, the most important American philosopher of the second half of the twentieth century. This collection, coedited by Sellars's chief interpreter and intellectual heir, should do much to elucidate and clearly establish the significance of this difficult thinker's vision for contemporary philosophy.
Download or read book The Theory of Proper Names written by Alan Henderson Gardiner and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Reference of Proper Names written by Thomas Michael McKinsey and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Naming and Necessity written by Saul A. Kripke and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If there is such a thing as essential reading in metaphysics or in philosophy of language, this is it. Ever since the publication of its original version, Naming and Necessity has had great and increasing influence. It redirected philosophical attention to neglected questions of natural and metaphysical necessity and to the connections between these and theories of reference, in particular of naming, and of identity. From a critique of the dominant tendency to assimilate names to descriptions and more generally to treat their reference as a function of their Fregean sense, surprisingly deep and widespread consequences may be drawn. The largely discredited distinction between accidental and essential properties, both of individual things (including people) and of kinds of things, is revived. So is a consequent view of science as what seeks out the essences of natural kinds. Traditional objections to such views are dealt with by sharpening distinctions between epistemic and metaphysical necessity; in particular by the startling admission of necessary a posteriori truths. From these, in particular from identity statements using rigid designators whether of things or of kinds, further remarkable consequences are drawn for the natures of things, of people, and of kinds; strong objections follow, for example to identity versions of materialism as a theory of the mind. This seminal work, to which today's thriving essentialist metaphysics largely owes its impetus, is here published with a substantial new Preface by the author.
Download or read book Language and Reality written by Michael Devitt and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is language? How does it relate to the world? How does it relate to the mind? Should our view of language influence our view of the world? These are among the central issues covered in this spirited and unusually clear introduction to the philosophy of language. Making no pretense of neutrality, Michael Devitt and Kim Sterelny take a definite theoretical stance. Central to that stance is naturalism--that is, they treat a philosophical theory of language as an empirical theory like any other and see people as nothing but complex parts of the physical world. This leads them, controversially, to a deflationary view of the significance of the study of language: they dismiss the idea that the philosophy of language should be preeminent in philosophy. This highly successful textbook has been extensively rewritten for the second edition to reflect recent developments in the field.
Download or read book The Theory of Proper Names written by Alan Henderson Gardiner (Sir).) and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What is Value written by Everett W. Hall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2000. This is Volume IV of six in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Anglo-American Philosophy series and focuses on value with an essay in Philosophical Analysis.
Download or read book Frege s Puzzle written by Nathan U. Salmon and published by Ridgeview Publishing Company. This book was released on 1991 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nature of the information content of declarative sentences is a central topic in the philosophy of language. The natural view that a sentence like "John loves Mary" contains information in which two individuals occur as constituents is termed the naive theory, and is one that has been abandoned by most contemporary scholars. This theory was refuted originally by philosopher Gottlob Frege. His argument that the naive theory did not work is termed Frege's puzzle, and his rival account of information content is termed the orthodox theory. In this detailed study, Nathan Salmon defends a version of the naive theory and presents a proposal for its extension that provides a better picture of information content than the orthodox theory gives. He argues that a great deal of what has generally been taken for granted in the philosophy of language over the past few decades is either mistaken or unsupported, and consequently, much current research is focused on the wrong set of questions. Salmon dissolves Frege's puzzle as it is usually formulated and demonstrates how it can be reconstructed and strengthened to yield a more powerful objection to the naive theory. He then defends the naive theory against the new Frege puzzle by presenting an idea that yields both a surprisingly rich and powerful extension of the naive theory and a better picture of information content than that of the original orthodox theory. Nathan Salmon is Professor of Philosophy, University of California at Santa Barbara. A Bradford Book.
Download or read book Semantics written by James R. Hurford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-04-28 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the major elements of semantics in a simple, step-by-step fashion. Sections of explanation and examples are followed by practice exercises with answers and comment provided.
