What is Said: A Theory of Indirect Speech Reports: 49 - Rilegato

Libro 50 di 134: Philosophical Studies

Bertolet, R.

 
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'" Another, an oratio obliqua or indirect speech report, consists in the response 'He said that he wants us to write a paper reconciling . Since 'says' is construable in these various ways, it is at best unhelpful to write something like 'Alice said "Your paper is two days late", thereby saying that Tom's paper was two days late.

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Contenuti

1: Approaches to Natural Language.- 1. Sentences and Saying.- 2. Saying and Semantics.- 3. Saving Sentences, and What Is Said.- 4. Sentences and Propositions.- 2: Indexicality.- 1. Indexical Expressions.- 2. Some Examples.- 3. Too Many Indexicals?.- 4. The Eliminability of Indexicals.- 5. Russell’s Theory of Descriptions.- 3: Alternate Approaches.- 1. The Role of Context.- 2. Donnellan, Sentence Meaning and Speaker Meaning.- 3. The Demonstrative ’The’.- 4: Prolegomenon to a Theory of Speaker Reference.- 1. Two Approaches to Reference.- 2. Desiderata For A Theory of Speaker References.- 3. The Causal Theory.- 4. A Further Constraint.- 5: Speaker Reference.- 1. Two Unsatisfactory Intention-Based Views.- 2. A Fresh Start.- 3. Objections to the Sufficiency of the Conditions.- 4. Objections to the Necessity of the Conditions.- 5. Utterances Involving More Than One Hearer, and in the Absence of An Audience.- 6: Predication, and What is Said.- 1. Speaker Predication.- 2. A Theory of Speaker Predication.- 3. What Is Said.- 4. An Objection.- 5. Brevity and Sentence Fragments.- 6. Unusual But Important Cases.- 7: Concerning Fiction and Fictions.- 1. What Is To Be Explained.- 2. How Not To Explain It.- 3. A Better Explanation.- 4. Some Complications Concerning Fictions.- 8: Further Implications.- 1. Epistemology and the Philosophy of Language.- 2. Methodological Solipsism.- 3. The Intentional Fallacy, and Deconstruction.- 4. What If This Is All Wrong?.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.

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ISBN 10:  9401074259 ISBN 13:  9789401074254
Casa editrice: Springer, 2011
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