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How should we analyse the meaning of proper names, indexicals, demonstratives and definite descriptions? What relation do such expressions stand to the objects they designate or to mental representations of those objects? George Powell casts new light on these and other questions by approaching them...

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Main Author: Powell, George (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Series:Palgrave studies in pragmatics, language, and cognition.
Subjects:
Philosophy.
Language and Literature.
Linguistics, general.
Philosophy of Language.
Semantics.
Language and languages > Philosophy.
Linguistics.
Philology.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:How should we analyse the meaning of proper names, indexicals, demonstratives and definite descriptions? What relation do such expressions stand to the objects they designate or to mental representations of those objects? George Powell casts new light on these and other questions by approaching them from within a cognitive framework.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (IX, 217 pages)
ISBN:9780230274914
DOI:10.1057/9780230274914