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Wayne Davis presents a highly original approach to the foundations of semantics, showing how the so-called "expression" theory of meaning can handle names and other problematic cases of nondescriptive meaning. The fact that thoughts have parts ("ideas" or "concepts") is fundamental: Davis argues that like other unstructured words, names mean what they do because they are conventionally used to express atomic or basic ideas. In the process he shows that many pillars of contemporary philosophical semantics, from twin earth arguments to the necessity of identity, are unfounded.
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Wayne Davis is at Georgetown University.
Review
The focus of attention here is on some special structures of meaning commonly regarded as presenting special problems for expressionist theories of language but essential for any comprehensive treatment of the subject. Particularly impressive is Davis' account of the connection between reference and predication, and the distinctive way in which the meaning of names determines their reference. In light of that account, special treatment is given to interrogatives, imperatives, interjections, syncategorematic terms, and pejorative terms. --Choice
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- PublisherClarendon Press
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0199261652
- ISBN 13 9780199261659
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages466
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