Theory of Sentential Reference
Author : Brinkley
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 34,19 MB
Release : 2022-07-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 900445263X
On Sense and Reference
Author : Gottlob Frege
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 20,55 MB
Release : 2023-11-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
Book Description
In the philosophy of language, the difference between sense and reference was a concept of the German philosopher and mathematician Gottlob Frege in 1892. This idea, presented in this work, reflects the two ways he thought a singular term might have meaning.
A Referential Theory of Truth and Falsity
Author : Ilhan Inan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 18,68 MB
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1000580881
Book Description
This book proposes a novel theory of truth and falsity. It argues that truth is a form of reference and falsity is a form of reference failure. Most of the philosophical literature on truth concentrates on certain ontological and epistemic problems. This book focuses instead on language. By utilizing the Fregean idea that sentences are singular referring expressions, the author develops novel connections between the philosophical study of truth and falsity and the huge literature in in the philosophy of language on the notion of reference. The first part of the book constructs the author’s theory and argues for it in length. Part II addresses the ways in which the theory relates to, and is different from, some of the basic theories of truth. Part III takes up how to account for the truth of sentences with logical operators and quantifiers. Finally, Part IV discusses the applications and implications of the theory for longstanding problems in philosophy of language, metaphysics, and epistemology. A Referential Theory of Truth and Falsity will appeal to researchers and advanced students working in philosophy of language, epistemology, metaphysics, and linguistics.
The Meaning of Meaning
Author : Charles Kay Ogden
Publisher :
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 17,46 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Language and languages
ISBN :
Book Description
The Semiotic Web 1990: Recent Developments in Theory and History
Author : Thomas A. Sebeok
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 50,7 MB
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110851806
Book Description
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Tense, Reference, and Worldmaking
Author : James Alasdair McGilvray
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 27,9 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780773508712
Book Description
The tenses of natural languages are intimately connected with the abilities we have to relate real or fictional stories that take place outside our immediate temporal or spacial context. While philosophers and cognitive scientists have had difficulty coming to terms with these abilities, James McGilvray maintains that they must be understood before an adequate view of what a tense is can be constructed.
Truth, Meaning, Justification, and Reality
Author : Michael Frauchiger
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,64 MB
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3110459132
Book Description
This collection concentrates on vital themes from Michael Dummett, one of the most influential and creative analytic philosophers of our time. The contributors, who include some of Dummett's distinguished former students, critically reflect on various concerns of Dummett's ground-breaking work in philosophy of language, metaphysics, and philosophy of mathematics and logic. The essays direct towards aspects of Dummett's pioneering work in the history of analytical philosophy, particularly his interpretations of the works of Frege and of Wittgenstein, which in conjunction with Dummett’s own highly original ideas on truth and meaning have shaped decisive contemporary debates concerning notably the distinction between realism and anti-realism. Further, the volume includes a cheerfully serious excursion into popular philosophy by Dummett himself and reveals less known facets of Dummett's many-sided work and activities such as his political philosophy of immigration and asylum, and beyond that, his untiring and warm-hearted campaign for racial justice and humanity. Contributors: Michael Dummett, Eva Picardi, Crispin Wright, Timothy Williamson, Ian Rumfitt, Daniel Isaacson, Dag Prawitz, Dale Jacquette, Alex Burri, Michael Frauchiger.
Reference and Anaphoric Relations
Author : H.K. von Heusinger
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,18 MB
Release : 2001-11-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781402002915
Book Description
The notions of reference and anaphoric relations have been discussed since antiquity and they are still one of the most challenging subjects in linguistics, logics and philosophy of language. The quest for a satisfying account of anaphoric reference has initiated a wide range of new and interesting approaches in formal semantics; and recent research confirms the old insight that reference and anaphoricity are closely interrelated issues. This volume brings together fifteen original research articles on the representation and interpretation of indefinite and definite noun phrases, anaphoric pronouns, and closely related issues such as scope and quantifier movement. The analyses are worked out within discourse representation theory, file change semantics, and dynamic logic, a family of recent frameworks developed for the formal analysis of discourse semantics. Particular attention is paid to E-type theories of pronouns and to the use of choice functions in the semantics of noun phrases. The papers collected in this volume shed light on the question of how linguistic expressions establish reference and anaphoric relations. The use of choice function approaches within dynamic semantics opens new research perspectives on these questions. Audience: This book will be of interest to scholars and students of linguistics, logicians, philosophers of language, computational linguists, and computer scientists with an interest in the semantics of natural language.
Properties and Propositions
Author : Robert Trueman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 33,87 MB
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1108890164
Book Description
This book articulates and defends Fregean realism, a theory of properties based on Frege's insight that properties are not objects, but rather the satisfaction conditions of predicates. Robert Trueman argues that this approach is the key not only to dissolving a host of longstanding metaphysical puzzles, such as Bradley's Regress and the Problem of Universals, but also to understanding the relationship between states of affairs, propositions, and the truth conditions of sentences. Fregean realism, Trueman suggests, ultimately leads to a version of the identity theory of truth, the theory that true propositions are identical to obtaining states of affairs. In other words, the identity theory collapses the gap between mind and world. This book will be of interest to anyone working in logic, metaphysics, the philosophy of language or the philosophy of mind.
Reference to Abstract Objects in Discourse
Author : Nicholas Asher
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 20,55 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9401117152
Book Description
Reference to Abstract Objects in Discourse presents a novel framework and analysis of the ways we refer to abstract objects in natural language discourse. The book begins with a typology of abstract objects and related entities like eventualities. After an introduction to `bottom up, compositional' discourse representation theory (DRT) and to previous work on abstract objects in DRT (notably work on the semantics of the attitudes), the book turns to a semantic analysis of eventuality and abstract object denoting nominals in English. The book then substantially revises and extends the dynamic semantic framework of DRT to develop an analysis of anaphoric reference to abstract objects and eventualities that exploits discourse structure and the discourse relations that obtain between elements of the structure. A dynamic, semantically based theory of discourse structure (SDRT) is proposed, along with many illustrative examples. Two further chapters then provide the analysis of anaphoric reference to propositions VP ellipsis. The abstract entity anaphoric antecedents are elements of the discourse structures that SDRT develops. The final chapter discusses some logical and philosophical difficulties for a semantic analysis of reference to abstract objects. For semanticists, philosophers of language, computer scientists interested in natural language applications and discourse, philosophical logicians, graduate students in linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science and artificial intelligence.
