Thesis
Sentence meaning
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Introduction. Grice's first definition of speaker's meaning is described and stated. An important class of counterexamples lead to adopting a definition by Schiffer, which employs the notion of mutual knowledge.
I.1 Signals have no semantical structure, but have meaning. The intention is announced of defining '2 means p in G' in terms of speaker's meaning.
I.2 A signal's meaning consists in its being governed by a certain kind of convention. Schiffer's' analysis of 'x means p...
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- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
- Language:
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English
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2019-08-08
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- Copyright holder:
- Loar, B
- Copyright date:
- 1972
- Notes:
- Stephanie Beardman is late author's wife
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