Nondescriptive Meaning and Reference: An Ideational Semantics

by Wayne A. Davis

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199261652
• ISBN13: 9780199261659
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 466 Pages
• Weight: 1.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"