What Is Said: A Theory of Indirect Speech Reports

by Rod Bertolet

The notion of what someone says is, perhaps surprisingly, some- what less clear than we might be entitled to expect. Suppose that I utter to my class the sentence 'I want you to write a paper reconciling the things Russell claims about propositions in The Philosophy of Mathematics for next week'. A student who was unable to get up in time for class that day asks another what I said about the assignment. Several replies are in the offing. One, an oratio...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792307925
• ISBN13: 9780792307921
• Release Date: June 1990
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"