Research Catalog

Title

Terms and truth : reference direct and anaphoric / Alan Berger.

Author

Berger, Alan.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2002.

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Details

Description

xvii, 234 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"In this book Alan Berger further develops the new theory of reference - as formulated by Kripke and Putnam - applying it in novel ways to many philosophical problems concerning reference and existence. Berger argues that his notion of anaphoric background condition and anaphoric links within a linguistic community are crucial not only to a theory of reference, but to the analysis of these problems as well."--Jacket.

Subject

• Reference (Philosophy)
• Anaphora (Linguistics)
• Language and languages > Philosophy
• Anapher Syntax
• Philosophie
• Referenz
• Referentie
• Anafora
• Référence (Philosophie)
• Anaphore
• Philosophie du langage

Note

• "A Bradford book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

I.A Distinction between Two Styles of Rigid Designation and Its Applications -- 1. A Distinction between Two Styles of Rigid Designation -- 2. A Theory of Reference Transmission and Reference Change -- 3. S-Type Terms and Their Anaphoric Chains -- II. Propositional Attitudes and Vacuous Names -- 4. The Disquotational Principle, De Re and De Dicto Belief Attributions, and an Agent's Perspective -- 5. Propositions and Belief Attributions Containing Vacuous Names -- 6. Intentional Identity and True Negative Existential Statements -- III. Pronouns and Anaphora -- 7. Anaphoric Pronouns: Some Proposed Analyses -- 8. A Formal Semantics for Plural Quantification, Intersentential Binding, and Anaphoric Pronouns as Rigid Designators.

ISBN

• 0262025191
• 9780262025195
• 0262524376
• 9780262524377

LCCN

2002023058

OCLC

• ocm49261015
• 49261015
• SCSB-1269265

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library