Terms and Truth
Subtitle: Reference Direct and Anaphoric
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: July 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780262025195
Subjects: Epistemology, theory of knowledge; Phenomenology & Existentialism; Cognitive Psychology; Epistemology; Philosophy; Philosophy / General; Grammar; Anaphora (Linguistics); Language and languages; Reference (Philosophy)
First sentence: In Naming and Necessity, Kripke mentions two ways in which an object may be initially baptized.
Description: "In this book Alan Berger further develops the new theory of reference - as formulated by Kripke and Putnam - applying it in novel ways to many philosophical problems concerning reference and existence. Berger argues that his notion of anaphoric background condition and anaphoric links within a linguistic community are crucial not only to a theory of reference, but to the analysis of these problems as well."--BOOK JACKET.