Philosophical essays
Subtitle: natural language : what it means and how we use it
By: Scott Soames.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780691136806; 9780691136813
Subjects: Language and languages -- Philosophy; Linguistics; Semantics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The origins of these essays; title: Introduction; title: Presupposition; title: A projection problem for speaker presupposition; title: Language and linguistic competence; title: Linguistics and psychology; title: Semantics and psychology; title: Semantics and semantic competence; title: The necessity argument; title: Truth, meaning, and understanding; title: Truth and meaning in perspective; title: Semantics and pragmatics; title: Naming and asserting; title: The gap between meaning and assertion : why what we literally say often differs from what our words literally mean; title: Drawing the line between meaning and implicaturem and relating both to assertion; title: Descriptions; title: Incomplete definite descriptions; title: Donnellan's referential/attributive distinction; title: Why incomplete descriptions don't refute Russell's theory of descriptions; title: Meaning and use : lessons for legal interpretation; title: Interpreting legal texts : what is and what is not special about the law.