
Rethinking Language, Mind, and Meaning
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He does so by arguing that propositions are repeatable, purely representational cognitive acts or operations that represent the world as being a certain way, while requiring minds that perform them to satisfy certain cognitive conditions. Because they have these two types of content-one facing the world and one facing the mind-pairs of propositions can be representationally identical but cognitively distinct. Using this breakthrough, Soames offers new solutions to several of the most perplexing problems in the philosophy of language and mind.
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Chapter 1 The Need for New Foundations 1
Chapter 2 The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Information 15
Chapter 3 Thinking of Oneself, the Present Moment, and the Actual World-State 46
Chapter 4 Linguistic Cognition, Understanding, and Millian Modes of Presentation 67
Chapter 5 Perceptual and Demonstrative Modes of Presentation 96
Chapter 6 Recognition of Recurrence 117
Chapter 7 Believing, Asserting, and Communicating Propositions of Limited Accessibility 143
Chapter 8 Recognition of Recurrence Revisited 156
Chapter 9 Situating Cognitive Propositions in a Broader Context 164
Chapter 10 Overcoming Objections 208
Chapter 11 Worries, Opportunities, and Unsolved Problems 225
References 235
Index 239
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