From naming to saying : the unity of the proposition /

"From Naming to Saying examines the classical question of the unity of the proposition: how the parts of the sentence which separately name an object and a property combine to say some single thing or express a proposition. This work will be of interest to students of linguistics and semantics...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gibson, Martha I.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., ©2004.
Subjects:	Proposition (Logic) Grammar, Comparative and general > Sentences. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Frege's account of the unity of the sentence
Russell on the analysis of the sentence : three views
Wittgenstein's picture theory of the unity of the proposition
The metaphysical basis of the subject-predicate distinction
Negation, propositional combination, and the nature of concepts
Can a unified theory of predication be given?
The causal asymmetry between subject and predicate and the unity of the sentence
Limitations, applications, and externalist theories of meaning.