
Truth Be Told : Sense, Quantity, and Extension.
Title:
Truth Be Told : Sense, Quantity, and Extension.
Author:
Justice, John.
ISBN:
9781453915325
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (90 pages)
Series:
Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics ; v.97
Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics
Contents:
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Reflexive Senses -- Frege's Theory of Sense and Referent -- Kripke's Criticism of Frege -- Kripke's Mistake -- Individuating Names -- Kripke's Puzzles about Names -- Incorporating Deictic Terms -- Chapter 2: Sense and Quantity -- Frege's Semantic Theory -- Improving on Frege -- Montague's Semantic Theory -- Workarounds for an Inherited Flaw -- Root of the Difficulties -- Chapter 3: Fixing Extensions -- Local Noun-Phrase Extensions -- Lexical Noun Phrases -- Deictic and Possessive Determiners -- Composing Truth-Values -- Composing Verb-Phrase Extensions -- Existential Import and the Empty Set -- Chapter 4: Formal Semantics -- The Individuation of Expressions -- The Formal Representation of Semantic Structure -- Formal Semantics -- Applications -- Chapter 5: Liar Paradoxes: The Irreflexivity of Extension Reports -- Reference and Extension -- Reporting Truth-Values -- Avoiding Liar's Revenge -- Contingent Liars -- Predicate Self-Evaluation -- A Referential Paradox -- Upshot -- Bibliography -- Index.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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