Oratio Obliqua, Oratio Recta: An Essay on Metarepresentation

by François Recanati and Francois Recanti

Book Overview

Among the entities that can be mentally or linguistically represented are mental and linguistic representations themselves. That is, we can think and talk about speech and thought. This phenomenon is known as metarepresentation. An example is "Authors believe that people read books." In this book Fran ois Recanati discusses the structure of metarepresentation from a variety of perspectives. According to him, metarepresentations have a dual structure:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262681161
• ISBN13: 9780262681162
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Bradford Book
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher