Ockham's assumption of mental speech : thinking in a world of particulars / by Sonja Schierbaum.

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Ockham's Assumption of Mental Speech; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements ; Abbreviations ; Introduction ; 1. The Basic Characteristics of Language: Signification and Supposition; 1.1 Introduction ; 1.2 Signification and Supposition of Terms: First Approximation ; 1.3 Absolute vs. Connotative Terms.

1.4 The Narrow and the Wider Sense of 'Signify' (significare) 1.5 The Property of Supposition ; 1.5.1 The 'Standard' Case: (Personal) Supposition and the Truth and Falsity of Affirmative Propositions.

1.5.2 Personal Supposition of Terms and 'Taking a Term Significatively' (sumi significative) 1.5.3 Improper Use and Improper Supposition ; 1.5.4 Simple and Material Supposition ; 1.6 Summary ; 2. Ockham's Semantic Model: Subordination, Correspondence, and the Role of Mental Speech with Respect to Spoken Language; 2.1 Introduction.

2.2 Signification in Relation to Subordination and Imposition 2.3 Conventional Signification and Equivocation ; 2.4 Mental Propositions and Spoken Propositions: The Relation of Correspondence ; 2.4.1 The General Explanation of 'Truth' and 'Falsity' ; 2.4.2 Correspondence: Synonymy Again.

2.4.3 Correspondence: Equivocation Again 2.5 Demonstratives, Correspondence, and Supposition of Mental Terms ; 2.6 Summary ; 3. Ockham's Model of Thought; 3.1 Introduction ; 3.2 How to Acquire an Absolute Simple Concept ; 3.2.1 The Three Steps of Concept Acquisition ; 3.2.2 Some Objections.

In Ockham's Assumption of Mental Speech: Thinking in a World of Particulars, Sonja Schierbaum offers a detailed philosophical reconstruction of William Ockham's (1287-1349) conception of mental speech.

English.

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