Meanings as species
Mark Richard presents an original theory of meaning, as the collection of assumptions speakers make in using it and expect their hearers to recognize as being made. Meaning is spread across a population, inherited by each new generation of speakers from the last, and evolving through the interactions of speakers with their environment.
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Mark Richard presents an original theory of meaning, as the collection of assumptions speakers make in using it and expect their hearers to recognize as being made. Meaning is spread across a population, inherited by each new generation of speakers from the last, and evolving through the interactions of speakers with their environment.
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- Publication Date:©2019
- Edition:First edition
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- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford, United Kingdom
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2019
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- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780191878732, 0191878731, 9780192580566, 0192580566
- oclc:on1107667117
- LC Classification:B105.M4
- Dewey Decimal:121.68
Table of Contents
Cover; Meanings as Species; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1: Quine and the Species Problem; 1. Private Language, Public Language; 2. Species and Meanings; 3. Quine's Argument in 'Two Dogmas'; 4. Of What Interest Is the Notion of Analyticity?; 2: Internalism to the Rescue?; 1. Inter-Speaker Synonymy; 2. Synonymy in an Idiolect; 3. Truth by Convention; 4. Stipulating Meaning; 5. What Constitutes What My Words Mean?; 6. A Digression on Logical Truth; 7. Grice, Strawson, and Varieties of Synonymy; 8. Conditional Credence and Connotation; 9. How Credence Relates to Meaning
10. The Rational Fixation of Belief3: What Are Meanings, That We Might Share Them?; 1. Intuitions; 2. Conceptual Analysis; 3. Linguistic Competence and Concepts; 4. Interpretive Common Ground; 5. Ways of Being a Competent Speaker; 6. Illocution and Meaning; 7. 'What Is Said' and Literal Meaning; 8. Epithets and Assertion; 9. Compositionality; 10. Competence and Abilities; 11. Conceptual Analysis Again; 12. The Role of Intuitions in Philosophy; 4: Conceptual Evolution and Reference; 1. The Linguistic and the Biological; 2. Lexical Coordination; 3. Changes In and Changes of Meaning
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