With reference to reference
By: Catherine Z. Elgin ; with a foreword by Nelson Goodman.
Publisher: Hackett Pub. Co.
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Indianapolis, Ind
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Goodman, Nelson.; Reference (Philosophy)
First sentence: A theory of reference should identify and characterize the relations between a language (or, more broadly, a symbol system) and its objects, and explain the ways the language functions in or contributes to our understanding of those objects.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword
pagenum: 1; title: Preface
pagenum: 3; label: I
title: Problem and Project
pagenum: 5; label: 1.
title: The Subject
pagenum: 5; label: 2.
title: Roads not taken
pagenum: 10; label: II
title: On Denoting
pagenum: 19; label: 1.
title: Denotation
pagenum: 19; label: 2.
title: Complications
pagenum: 23; label: 3.
title: Predication
pagenum: 29; label: 4.
title: Projection
pagenum: 35; label: 5.
title: System
pagenum: 37; label: III
title: Labeling Labels
pagenum: 43; label: 1.
title: Fictive Labels
pagenum: 43; label: 2.
title: Counterfactuals
pagenum: 50; label: 3.
title: Likenes of Meaning
pagenum: 54; label: IV
title: Metaphor
pagenum: 59; label: 1.
title: Metaphorical Denotation
pagenum: 59; label: 2.
title: Metaphorical Systems
pagenum: 61; label: 3.
title: Metaphorical Truth
pagenum: 65; label: 4.
title: Metaphor as Cognitive
pagenum: 68; label: V
title: Exemplification
pagenum: 71; label: 1.
title: Samples
pagenum: 71; label: 2.
title: Exemplificational Reference
pagenum: 73; label: 3.
title: Interpretation
pagenum: 78; label: 4.
title: Exemplification in the Arts
pagenum: 81; label: 5.
title: Exemplification in the Sciences
pagenum: 87; label: 6.
title: Exemplification in Ethics
pagenum: 90; label: 7.
title: Learning from Experience
pagenum: 93; label: VI
title: The Structures of Systems
pagenum: 97; label: 1.
title: Syntax
pagenum: 97; label: 2.
title: Semantics
pagenum: 101; label: 3.
title: Notations
pagenum: 104; label: 4.
title: Works
pagenum: 113; label: 5.
title: Exemplificational Systems
pagenum: 121; label: VII
title: Quotation
pagenum: 127; label: 1.
title: Verbal Quotation
pagenum: 127; label: 2.
title: Pictorial Quotation
pagenum: 131; label: 3.
title: Musical Quotation
pagenum: 134; label: VIII
title: Complex and Indirect Reference
pagenum: 141; label: 1.
title: Representation-As
pagenum: 141; label: 2.
title: Allusion
pagenum: 142; label: 3.
title: Metaphorical Likening
pagenum: 146; label: IX
title: About 'About'
pagenum: 155; label: 1.
title: Preliminaries
pagenum: 155; label: 2.
title: Absolutely About
pagenum: 158; label: 3.
title: Relatively About
pagenum: 163; label: 4.
title: Rhetorically About
pagenum: 165; label: 5.
title: Nominalist Reconstrual
pagenum: 168; label: 6.
title: True About
pagenum: 169; label: 7.
title: Conclusion
pagenum: 179; label: X
title: A Discourse on Method
pagenum: 183; title: Index
pagenum: 195