TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gauker,Christopher
TI  - Words without meaning
T2  - Contemporary philosophical monographs
SN  - 9780262273596
AV  - P325 .G364 2003eb
U1  - 401/.43 21
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Semantics
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Semantics (Philosophy)
KW  - Pragmatics
KW  - Sémantique
KW  - Langage et langues
KW  - Philosophie
KW  - Sémantique (Philosophie)
KW  - Pragmatique
KW  - semantics
KW  - aat
KW  - pragmatics
KW  - 17.56 semantics: general
KW  - bcl
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
KW  - Linguistics
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Pragmatik
KW  - gnd
KW  - Präsupposition
KW  - Propositionale Einstellung
KW  - Sprachphilosophie
KW  - Semantik
KW  - Semantiek
KW  - gtt
KW  - Semântica
KW  - larpcal
KW  - Pragmática
KW  - Filosofia da linguagem
KW  - PHILOSOPHY/General
KW  - LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE/General
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - "A Bradford book."; Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-294) and index; Machine generated contents note; Issue --; 1; Received View --; 2; Mental Representation --; 3; Elements of an Alternative --; Pragmatics --; 4; Domain of Discourse --; 5; Presupposition --; 6; Implicature --; Semantics --; 7; Quantification --; 8; Conditionals --; 9; Truth --; Beliefs --; 10; Communicative Conception --; 11; Explanation and Prediction --; 12; Semantics and Ontology
N2  - According to the received view of linguistic communication, the primary function of language is to enable speakers to reveal the propositional contents of their thoughts to hearers. Speakers are able to do this because they share with their hearers an understanding of the meanings of words. Christopher Gauker rejects this conception of language, arguing that it rests on an untenable conception of mental representation and yields a wrong account of the norms of discourse.Gauker's alternative starts with the observation that conversations have goals and that the best way to achieve the goal of a conversation depends on the circumstances under which the conversation takes place. These goals and circumstances determine a context of utterance quite apart from the attitudes of the interlocutors. The fundamental norms of discourse are formulated in terms of the conditions under which sentences are assertible in such contexts.Words without Meaning contains original solutions to a wide array of outstanding problems in the philosophy of language, including the logic of quantification, the logic of conditionals, the semantic paradoxes, the nature of presupposition and implicature, and the nature and attribution of beliefs
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