The Things We Mean

by Stephen Schiffer and Stephen Schieffer

Stephen Schiffer presents a groundbreaking account of meaning and belief, and shows how it can illuminate a range of crucial problems regarding language, mind, knowledge, and ontology. He introduces the new doctrine of 'pleonastic propositions' to explain what the things we mean and believe are. He discusses the relation between semantic and psychological facts, on the one hand, and physical facts, on the other; vagueness and indeterminacy; moral...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199257760
• ISBN13: 9780199257768
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 8.7"