<DIV>This book investigates the phenomenon of semantic under-determinacy by arguing for its distinctiveness and non-reducibility to other familiar phenomena, and addresses the question of how communication is possible despite it. Belleri argues that the comprehension of utterances of semantically un
Semantic Under-Determinacy and Communication
โ Scribed by Delia Belleri (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 200
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-21
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
Arguing for Semantic Under-Determinacy....Pages 25-51
The Peculiarity of Semantic Under-Determinacy....Pages 52-78
Front Matter....Pages 79-79
Semantic Under-Determinacy and the Debate on Context-Sensitivity....Pages 81-112
Semantic Under-Determinacy and Conceptual Constraints....Pages 113-146
Semantic Under-Determinacy, Comprehension and Meta-Representation....Pages 147-172
Back Matter....Pages 173-193
โฆ Subjects
Philosophy of Language; Semantics; Pragmatics
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