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  title info:
    title: Meanings as species
  name:
    name part: Richard, Mark
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vi, 212 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Mark Richard presents an original picture of meaning according to which a word's meaning is analogous to the biological lineages we call species. His primary thesis is that a word's meaning, in the sense of what one needs to track in order to be a competent speaker, is the collection of assumptions its users make in using it and expect their hearers to recognize as being made. Meaning is something that is spread across a population, inherited by each new generation of speakers from the last, and typically evolving in so far as what constitutes a meaning changes in virtue of the interactions of speakers with their (linguistic and social) environment. Meanings as Species develops and defends the analogy between the biological and the linguistic, and includes a discussion of the senses in which the processes of meaning change are and are not like evolution via natural selection. Richard argues that thinking of meanings as species supports Quine's insights about analyticity without rendering talk about meaning theoretically useless. He also discusses the relations between meaning as what the competent speaker knows about her language, meaning as the determinant of reference and truth conditions and meaning qua what determines what sentence uses say. This book contains insightful discussions of a wide range of topics in the philosophy of language, including relations between meaning and philosophical analysis, the project of 'conceptual engineering,' the senses in which meaning is and is not compositional, the degree to which to which referential meaning is indeterminate and what such indeterminacy might tells us about propositional attitudes like belief and assertion.
  note: Mark Richard.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-208) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Meaning (Philosophy)
  subject:
    topic: Semantics
  subject:
    topic: Word (Linguistics)
  classification: B105.M4 R53 2019
  classification: 121.68
  identifier: 0198842813
  identifier: 9780198842811
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 190206
    record change date: 20200117102141.0
    record identifier: in00004133273