| Meaning, Expression, and Thought Contributor(s): Davis, Wayne a. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521555132 ISBN-13: 9780521555135 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2002 Annotation: This philosophical treatise on the foundations of semantics represents a systematic effort to clarify, deepen, and defend the classical doctrine that words are conventional signs of mental states; principally, thoughts and ideas; and that meaning consists in their expression. This expression theory of meaning is developed by carrying out the Gricean program, explaining the significance of words to have meaning in terms of speaker meaning, and for a speaker to mean something in terms of intention. Grice's own formulations are rejected, and alternatives are developed. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Epistemology - Philosophy | Logic |
| Dewey: 121.68 |
| LCCN: 2002073478 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy |
| Physical Information: 1.78" H x 6.3" W x 9.16" (2.30 lbs) 674 pages |