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Subject(s)

• Proposition (Logic) [Browse]

Author

• King, Jeffrey C. [Browse]
• Soames, Scott [Browse]
• Speaks, Jeffrey, 1975- [Browse]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-249) and index.

Contents

• Introduction / Jeff Speaks
• Part 1. Common ground. What role do propositions play in our theories? / Jeffrey C. King
• What's wrong with semantic theories which make no use of propositions? / Jeff Speaks
• Why the traditional conceptions of propositions can't be correct? / Scott Soames
• Part 2. Three theories of propositions. Naturalized propositions / Jeffrey C. King
• Propositions are properties of everything or nothing / Jeff Speaks
• Cognitive propositions / Scott Soames
• Part 3. Critical essays. Criticisms of Soames and Speaks / Jeffrey C. King
• Representational entities and representational acts / Jeff Speaks
• Propositions vs. properties and facts / Scott Soames
• Part 4. Further thoughts. Responses to Speaks and Soames / Jeffrey C. King
• Representation and structure in the theory of propositions / Jeff Speaks
• Clarifying and improving the cognitive theory / Scott Soames.

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ISBN

• 0199693765 ((cloth))
• 9780199693764 ((cloth))

LCCN

2013944506

OCLC

869722671

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