Pollock Language and Thought

Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-5648-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 314 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

Most philosophical theories of language have assumed that statements (products of assertion) and propositions (objects of belief) are the same things. John L. Pollock denies this, maintaining that even when the speaker is perfectly sincere, what he is thinking need not be the same thing as what he is saying.

Originally published in 1982.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Pollock, John L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FrontMatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. vii
Preface, pg. x
I. The Statemental Theory of Meaning, pg. 1
II. Traditional Theories of Proper Names, pg. 40
III. The Meaning of a Proper Name, pg. 55
IV. Singular Terms, pg. 106
V. The Traditional Theory of Predicates, pg. 128
VI. Synthetic Predicates, pg. 140
VII. Nonsynthetic Predicates, pg. 166
VIII. The Alethic Modalities, pg. 175
IX. Doxastic and Epistemic Sentences, pg. 188
X. Languages, Institutions, and Conventions, pg. 210
XI. Stating, pg. 239
XII. Nondeclarative Sentences, pg. 253
Appendix: A General Statemental Semantics, pg. 265
Bibliography, pg. 289
Index, pg. 295