基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2007. Opens up promising new lines of inquiry by identifying the key assumption that has artificially limited theorists' options in thinking about philosophy of language and showing this assumption to be unmotivated.
Full Description
The phenomenon of substitution failure is a longstanding focus of discussion for philosophers of language. Substitution failure occurs when a change from one co-referential name to another (e.g. from 'Superman' to 'Clark Kent') affects the truth-value of a sentence. Jennifer Saul has shown that this can occur even in the simplest of sentences. She presents the first full-length treatment of this puzzling feature of language, and explores its implications for the theory of reference and names, and for the methodology of semantics.
Contents
Introduction ; 1. Substitution and Simple Sentences ; 2. Simple Sentences and Semantics ; 3. Simple Sentences and Implicatures ; 4. The Enlightenment Problem, and a Common Assumption ; 5. Abandoning (EOI) ; 6. Beyond Matching Propositions ; Appendix A: Extending the Account ; Appendix B: Belief Reporting
