Meaning Expression and Thought 1st Edition by Wayne A Davis ISBN 0521039045 978-0521039048

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ISBN 10: 0521039045 

ISBN 13: 978-0521039048

Author: Wayne A. Davi

 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.

Table of contents:

• Preface
  1. Introduction
  Part I. Semantic Acts and Intentions:
  2. Speaker meaning
  3. Expression
  4. Alternative analyses
  5. Communication
  6. Reference
  Part II. Languages and Semantic Acts:
  7. Languages
  8. Basic word meaning
  9. Conventions
  10. Compositional word meaning
  11. Living languages
  Part III. Thoughts and Ideas:
  12. Thought
  13. Sentences, propositions and thoughts
  14. The constituency thesis
  15. Ideas or concepts
  16. The possession of concepts
  17. The acquisition of concepts
  18. The association of ideas
  19. Objects, images and conceptions
  20. The language of thought hypothesis
  Part IV. Ideational Theories of Meaning:
  21. Objections to ideational theories
  22. Priority objections
  23. Incompleteness objections
  References
  Index.

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