Beyond the Letter: A Philosophical Inquiry Into Ambiguity, Vagueness, and Metaphor in Language |
Contents
Theoretical Accounts and Their Difficulties | 7 |
Vagueness | 31 |
Vagueness and Molecular Compounds | 43 |
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Beyond the Letter (Routledge Revivals): A Philosophical Inquiry into ... Israel Scheffler Limited preview - 2013 |
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accidental pairs Alston anti-replaceability appeal assert Lx attribution Beardsley Beardsley's belonging biped Black borderline Carnap characteristics clearly coextensive cognitive content commonplaces compounds connotations consider consistency constituents construed context decidable denoted descriptive term differ in meaning discussion divergent replicas domain E-ambiguous elementary ambiguity emotive emotivism example explication fact formulaic approach given green centaur I. A. Richards Ibid indecision inscription interactionism intuition intuitionism intuitionistic label language latter literal application literal equivalents logic Max Black mention-selection meta metalanguage metaphorical application metaphorical expressions metaphorical meaning moreover Nelson Goodman normal notion objects offers open texture participial Philosophy Philosophy of Language phorical picture possible precision primary extension principal subject principle problem propositional function question reference relevant replaceable requires respect secondary extensions semantic sentence sharp wind simile sort statements subjunctive suggested suppose synonymy theoretical theory things tion tokens transfer true undecidable vague relative W. V. Quine wolf wolves word
References to this book
Exact Imagination, Late Work: On Adorno's Aesthetics Shierry Weber Nicholsen No preview available - 1999 |