Meaning, Expression and Thought

Klappentext
An effort to clarify and defend the doctrine that words are conventional signs of mental states.

Zusammenfassung
This philosophical treatise on the foundations of semantics is a systematic effort to clarify, deepen and defend the classical doctrine that words are conventional signs of mental states, principally thoughts and ideas, and that meaning consists in their expression.

Inhalt
Preface; 1. Introduction; Part I. Semantic Acts and Intentions: 2. Speaker meaning; 3. Expression; 4. Alternative analyses; 5. Communication; 6. Reference; Part II. Languages and Semantic Acts: 7. Languages; 8. Basic word meaning; 9. Conventions; 10. Compositional word meaning; 11. Living languages; Part III. Thoughts and Ideas: 12. Thought; 13. Sentences, propositions and thoughts; 14. The constituency thesis; 15. Ideas or concepts; 16. The possession of concepts; 17. The acquisition of concepts; 18. The association of ideas; 19. Objects, images and conceptions; 20. The language of thought hypothesis; Part IV. Ideational Theories of Meaning: 21. Objections to ideational theories; 22. Priority objections; 23. Incompleteness objections; References; Index.

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