Remnants of meaning / Stephen Schiffer
1987, 1st edition. Cambridge, Mass. ; London : M.I.T. Press. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust- wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #422991
ISBN: 0262192586
Physical description; xx, 303 p ; 24 cm. Notes; Bibliography: p291-297. - Includes index. Contents; Starting points : the semantic, the psychological, and the physical -- Functionalism and propositions -- The real trouble with propositions -- Intentionality and the language of thought -- Sententialist theories of belief -- Ontological physicalism and sentential dualism -- Compositional semantics and language understanding -- Compositional semantics, meaning theories, and ontology -- Intention-based semantics and the analysis of meaning -- The no-theory theory of meaning. Subjects; Meaning (Philosophy). Semantics (Philosophy). Intention (Logic). Propostion (Logic). Intentionality (Philosophy). Language and logic. - Philosophical perspectives.
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