
Simple Sentences, Substitution, and Intuitions
Jennifer M. Saul(Author)
Clarendon Press
Published on 26. April 2007
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-0-19-921915-5 (ISBN)
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
363 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-921915-5 (9780199219155)
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Person
Jennifer M. Saul, University of Sheffield
Content
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