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" Nondescriptive meaning and reference : "
Wayne A. Davis.
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BL
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1012016
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b766386
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| Main Entry
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Davis, Wayne A.,1951-
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Nondescriptive meaning and reference : : an ideational semantics /\ Wayne A. Davis.
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2005.
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xiii, 450 pages :: illustrations ;; 25 cm
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0199261652
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: 9780199261659
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-437) and index.
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| Contents
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Thoughts -- Ideas -- Speaker meaning and expression -- Word meaning -- Nondescriptive meaning -- Reference and expression -- Reference and intention -- Meaning and reference -- Millian theories -- Defenses of millianism -- Fregean theories -- Standard name meaning -- Formal semantics -- Rigidity and identity.
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"Nondescriptive Meaning and Reference extends Wayne Davis's groundbreaking work on the foundations of semantics. Davis revives the classical doctrine that meaning consists in the expression of ideas, and advances the expression theory by showing how it can account for standard proper names, and the distinctive way their meaning determines their reference. He also shows how the theory can handle interjections, syncategorematic terms, conventional implicatures, and other cases long seen as difficult for both ideational and referential theories."--Jacket.
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Meaning (Philosophy)
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Reference (Philosophy)
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Meaning (Philosophy)
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Reference (Philosophy)
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Semantiek.
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| Dewey Classification
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121/.68
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B105.M4D38 2005
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08.34bcl
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08.34.bcl
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