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File Size | 1.53 MB
Pages | 311
Language | English
Category | Philosophy
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Description: According to the
received view of linguistic communication, the primary function of language is
to enable speakers to reveal the propositional contents of their thoughts to
hearers. Speakers are able to do this because they share with their hearers an
understanding of the meanings of words. Christopher Gauker rejects this conception
of language, arguing that it rests on an untenable conception of mental
representation and yields a wrong account of the norms of discourse.Gauker's
alternative starts with the observation that conversations have goals and that
the best way to achieve the goal of a conversation depends on the circumstances
under which the conversation takes place.
These goals and
circumstances determine a context of utterance quite apart from the attitudes
of the interlocutors. The fundamental norms of discourse are formulated in
terms of the conditions under which sentences are assertible in such
contexts.Words without Meaning contains original solutions to a wide array of
outstanding problems in the philosophy of language, including the logic of
quantification, the logic of conditionals, the semantic paradoxes, the nature
of presupposition and implicature, and the nature and attribution of beliefs.
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Words without Meaning: Contemporary Philosophical Monographs, Vol. 3
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