num_pages: 248
description: ..". an excellent collection... " --Journal of Language &amp; Social PsychologyAn important collection of original essays by well-known scholars debating the questions of logical versus psychologically-based interpretations of language.On the circumstantial relation between meaning and content / Jon Barwise --On truth. A fiction / Umberto Eco --Quantification, roles, and domains / Gilles Fauconnier --Conceptual semantics / Ray Jackendoff --How is meaning mentally represented? / Philip N. Johnson-Laird --Cognitive semantics / George Lakoff --The analysis of nominal compounds / Wendy G. Lehnert --Knowledge representation in people and machines / Roger Schank and Alex Kass --Identity in intensional logic : subjective semantics / Bas van Fraassen --Reference and its role in computational models of mental representations / Yorick Wilks
language: English
title: Meaning and Mental Representations
titlecomplete: Meaning and Mental Representations (Advances in Semiotics)
genres: Philosophy
ratings_count: 5
series: Advances in Semiotics
publisher: Indiana University Press