Are natural languages genuinely compositional? What roles does context play in linguistic communication, and by what means? In particular, does context interfere with the compositional determination of truth conditions? What meanings should theorists assign to sentences if compositionality is to be retained? These are the central questions of this important volume of new philosophical essays in honour of Ernie Lepore.
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Table of Content
Compositionality.- “If”, “Unless”, and Quantification.- Bridging the Paratactic Gap.- Context and “What Is Said”.- On the Epistemic Utility of What is Said.- In Defense of Context Shifting Arguments.- Contextualism, Skepticism and Objectivity.- On Failing to Capture some (or even all) of what is Communicated.- Semantic Values.- The Disunity of Truth.- Descriptions, Negation, and Focus.- Evidentials: Some Preliminary Distinctions.- The Direct Expression of Metaphorical Content.- The Empirical Case for Bare Demonstratives in Vision.
Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 282 ● ISBN 9781402083105 ● File size 2.2 MB ● Editor Robert J. Stainton & Christopher Viger ● Publisher Springer Netherland ● City Dordrecht ● Country NL ● Published 2008 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 2148687 ● Copy protection Social DRM
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