Words and Thoughts: Subsentences, Ellipsis, and the Philosophy of Language.

Lingua: inglese

Editore: -Oxford University Press -, 2006

0199250383 / 9780199250387

Da: Paul Brown, Ramsgate, Regno UnitoPaul Brown

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First edition 2006. xi+248 pages with index. Cloth. New. Fine in dustjacket. It is a near truism of philosophy of language that sentences are prior to words. Sentences, it is said, are what we believe, assert, and argue for; uses of them constitute our evidence in semantics; only they stand in inferential relations, and are true or false. Sentences are, indeed, the only things that fundamentally have meaning. Does this near truism really hold of human languages? Robert Stainton, drawing on a wide body of evidence, argues forcefully that speakers can and do use mere words, not sentences, to communicate complete thoughts. He then considers the implications of this empirical result for language-thought relations, various doctrines of sentence primacy, and the semantics-pragmatics boundary. The book is important both for its philosophical and empirical claims, and for the methodology employed. Stainton illustrates how the methods and detailed results of the various cognitive sciences can bear on central issues in philosophy of language. At the same time, he applies philosophical distinctions with subtlety and care, to show that arguments which seemingly support the primacy of sentences do not really do so. The result is a paradigm example of The New Philosophy of Language: a rich melding of empirical work with traditional philosophy of language. Ask to see our other Language titles.…

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Titolo
Words and Thoughts: Subsentences, Ellipsis, and the Philosophy of Language.
Autore
Stainton, Robert
Editore
-Oxford University Press -
Anno di pubblicazione
2006
Rilegatura
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Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0199250383
ISBN 13
9780199250387
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Paul Brown

Ramsgate, Regno Unito

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