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Language consists of dispositions, socially instilled, to respond observably to socially observable stimuli. This book examines the linguistic mechanisms of objective reference. Topics covered include the difficulties involved in translation, the anomalies and conflicts implicit in our language's referential apparatus, the semantic problems connected with the imputation of existence, and the reasons for admitting or repudiating each of various categories of supposed objects. Conclusions reached include rejecting the notion of a language-transcendent "sentence-meaning", and meaningful studies in the semantics of reference can only be directed toward substantially the same language in which they are conducted. (From publisher's copy)

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Symbolic and mathematical Logic, Philosophy, Languages, Semantics (Philosophy), Language and languages, Logic, Symbolic and mathematical, Lenguas, Langage et langues, Filosofi a, Lo gica simbo lica y matema tica, Se mantique (Philosophie), Logique symbolique et mathe matique, Philosophie, Logique symbolique et mathématique, Sémantique (Philosophie), Language and languages, philosophy, Language and languages--philosophy, Lógica simbólica y matemática, Filosofía

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March 15, 1964, The MIT Press
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First Sentence

"This familiar desk manifests its presence by resisting my pressures and by deflecting light to my eyes."

Table of Contents

Preface
Page ix
Contents
Page xiii
I. Language and Truth
1. Beginning with ordinary things
Page 1
2. The objective pull;, or e pluribus unum
Page 5
3. The inteanimation of sentences
Page 9
4. Ways of leanring words
Page 13
5. Evidence
Page 17
6. Posits and truth
Page 21
II. Translation and Meaning
7. First steps of a radical translation
Page 26
8. Stimulation and stimulus meaning
Page 31
9. Occasion sentences. Intrusive information
Page 35
10. Observation sentences
Page 40
11. Intrasubjectiv synonymy of occasion sentences
Page 46
12. Synonymy of terms
Page 51
13. Translating logical connectives
Page 57
14. Synonymous and anlytic sentences
Page 61
15. Analytical hypotheses
Page 68
16. On failure to perceive the indeterminacy
Page 73
III. The Ontogenesis of Reference
17. Words and qualities
Page 80
18. Phonetic norms
Page 85
19. Divided reference
Page 90
20. Predication
Page 95
21. Demonstratives. Attributives
Page 100
22. Relative terms. Four phases of reference
Page 105
23. Relative clauses. Indefinite singular terms
Page 110
24. Identity
Page 114
25. Abstract terms
Page 118
IV. Vagaries of Reference
26. Vagueness
Page 125
27. Ambiguity of terms
Page 129
28. Some ambiguities of syntax
Page 134
29. Ambiguity of scope
Page 138
30. Referential opacity
Page 141
31. Opacity and indefinite terms
Page 146
32. Opacity in certian verbs
Page 151
V. Regimentation
33. Aims and claims of regimentation
Page 157
34. Quantifiers and other operators
Page 161
35. Variables and referential opacity
Page 166
36. Time. Confinement of general terms
Page 170
37. Names reparsed
Page 176
38. Conciliatory remarks. Elimination of singular terms
Page 181
39. Definition and the double life
Page 186
VI. Flight from Intension
40. Propositions and eternal sentences
Page 191
41. Modality
Page 195
42. Propositions as meanings
Page 200
43. Toward dispensing with intensional objects
Page 206
44. Other objects for the attitudes
Page 211
45. The double standard
Page 216
46. Dispositions and conditionals
Page 222
47. A framework for theory
Page 226
VII. Ontic Decision
48. Nominalism and realism
Page 233
49. Fals predilections. Ontic commitment
Page 238
50. Entia non grata
Page 243
51. Limit mythis
Page 248
52. Geometrical objects
Page 251
53. The ordered pair as philosophical paradigm
Page 257
54. Numbers, mind, and body
Page 262
55. Whither classes?
Page 266
56. Semantic ascent
Page 270
Bibliographical References
Page 277
Index
Page 287

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Title on spine: Word & object.

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 277-285.

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B840, B840 .Q5

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xv, 294 p. ;
Number of pages
294

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ISBN 10
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4129534
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