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OverviewIf meaning is the minimum that must be grasped in order to understand speech, then meaning is specified when speech is reported. What follows from this hypothesis, and how do constraints on reported speech compare with Frege's 'modes of presentation' as a guide to the concept of meaning? Or take iterated attitudes: two sentence operators may be extensionally equivalent, yet satisfy different principles. Does this phenomenon destroy the celebrated argument against mechanism from Godel's theorem, and what other implications does it have? Or again, does natural language tell for or against second-order logic? For example, is second-order quantification really substitutional, and is our use of plurals best represented in second-order terms? Five philosophers and a linguist debate these issues here. The volume will be of interest to anyone concerned with semantics and logical theory, whether they work in philosophy, logic, or linguistics. Full Product DetailsAuthor: T. J. SmileyPublisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Volume: v.95 Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.447kg ISBN: 9780197261828ISBN 10: 0197261825 Pages: 158 Publication Date: 07 January 1999 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsIntroduction; On Higher-order Logic and Natural Language; On Motivating Higher-level Logic; Indexicals and Reported Speech; Reporting Indexicals; Iterated Attitudes; Williamson on Iterated AttitudesReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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