How to Understand Language : (Record no. 44173)
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| International Standard Book Number | 9781317492290 |
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| Canceled/invalid ISBN | 9781844651962 |
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| Original cataloging agency | MiAaPQ |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
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| Classification number | P107 W455 2014 |
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| Classification number | 401 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Weiss, Bernhard. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | How to Understand Language : |
| Remainder of title | A Philosophical Inquiry. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st ed. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Oxford : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Taylor & Francis Group, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2009. |
| 264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | ©2010. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (286 pages) |
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| Content type term | text |
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| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1. The puzzles of language -- 1.1 The uses of language -- 1.2 Words and meanings -- 1.3 Compositionality -- 1.4 The normativity of meaning -- 2. The starting-point for analysis -- 2.1 Knowledge -- 2.2 Linguistic meaning -- 2.3 Frege's distinction between sense and reference -- 2.4 Russell's theory of descriptions -- 2.5 Kripke's attack on descriptivism about names -- 2.6 Analysis and singular terms -- 3. Analysing sentence-meaning -- 3.1 Specifying sentence-meaning -- 3.2 Natural and non-natural meaning -- 3.3 Speaker-meaning -- 3.4 Sentence-meaning -- 3.5 Problems for Grice's account -- 4. Analysing synonymy -- 4.1 The analytic-synthetic distinction -- 4.2 Holism -- 5. Radical translation -- 5.1 The indeterminacy of translation (the argument from below) -- 5.2 Methodological considerations -- 5.3 The indeterminacy of translation -- 5.4 Quine's conclusions on meaning -- 5.5 Evans's response -- 6. The structure of a theory of meaning -- 6.1 What is a theory of meaning? -- 6.2 Systematicity -- 6.3 The distinction between sense and force -- 6.4 The centrality of assertion -- 6.5 Use-conditions versus truth-conditions -- 6.6 Use-conditional theories of understanding -- 7. Radical interpretation -- 7.1 Constraints on an adequate theory of truth -- 7.2 The Principle of Charity -- 7.3 An application: saying that -- 7.4 Compositionality and extensionality -- 7.5 Davidson and Foster -- 7.6 Dummett on Davidson -- 8. Linguistic norms, communication and radical interpretation -- 8.1 Davidson on communication -- 8.2 A non-normative conception of meaning? -- 8.3 Norms and mistakes -- 8.4 A generalization of the argument? -- 9. Linguistic normativity -- 9.1 Norms and prescriptions -- 9.2 Correctness-conditions, practical reasoning and norms -- 9.3 Non-literal uses of language. |
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| Formatted contents note | 9.4 Are the norms substantial? -- 10. Radical or robust? -- 10.1 The mysteriousness of language -- 10.2 Doing away with radical interpretation -- 10.3 Indeterminacy of reference -- 10.4 Arguments for robust publicity -- 10.5 Rejecting indeterminacy of reference -- 11. Language and community -- 11.1 Natural language is essentially communal: semantic externalism -- 11.2 Communication requires publicity of meaning -- 12. Rules and privacy: the problem -- 12.1 The problem of rule-following -- 12.2 Kripke's sceptical solution -- 12.3 Problems for the sceptical solution -- 13. Rules and privacy: the solution? -- 13.1 Can there be a private language? -- 13.2 Platonism about rules -- 13.3 Consensualism -- 13.4 Finding a way forward -- 13.5 Back to the theory of meaning -- 13.6 Privacy and first-personal authority -- 14. Truth-conditions versus use-conditions -- 14.1 Dummett's attack on truth-conditional theories -- 14.2 Brandom on inferentialism versus representationalism -- 14.3 Use-conditional accounts of meaning -- 14.4 The problematic pairs -- 14.5 The analytic-synthetic distinction -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Why are philosophers, as opposed to, say, linguists and psychologists, puzzled by language? How should we attempt to shed philosophical light on the phenomenon of language? This title answers these two questions. |
| 588 ## - SOURCE OF DESCRIPTION NOTE | |
| Source of description note | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. |
| 590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN) | |
| Local note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Language and languages -- Philosophy. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Philology. |
| 655 #4 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM | |
| Genre/form data or focus term | Electronic books. |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Relationship information | Print version: |
| Main entry heading | Weiss, Bernhard |
| Title | How to Understand Language |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2009 |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781844651962 |
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| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | ProQuest (Firm) |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=1886886">https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=1886886</a> |
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