Frege on definitions : a case study of semantic content / John Horty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Horty, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Frege, Gottlob, 1848-1925.

Frege, Gottlob.

Semantics.

Physical Description:

xii, 159 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Contents:

1 The introduction of senses 1

1.1 Frege's argument 1

1.2 Exploring the argument 3

1.2.1 Propositional attitudes 4

1.2.2 Information value 7

2 Sense identity 10

2.1 Models of the speaker 10

2.1.1 Ayer-Hahn monsters 11

2.1.2 Limited intellects 14

2.2 The strict interpretation 17

2.2.1 Arguments for the strict interpretation 17

2.2.2 Problems with the strict interpretation 24

3.1 Analyticity 27

3.2 Concept formation 30

3.3 Fruitfulness and eliminability 32

3.3.1 Explicative definitions 36

3.3.2 Stipulative definitions 40

4 Sense and meaning 50

4.1 The conflict 51

4.2 Resolving the conflict 53

4.2.1 Indexicals 56

4.2.2 Language learning 58

5 A simple semantic model 65

5.1 Senses as procedures 66

5.2 Syntax 69

5.3 Semantics 71

5.3.1 Referents 72

5.3.2 Senses 73

6 Removal rules 85

6.1 Incomplete expressions 85

6.1.1 The conflict 85

6.1.2 Resolving the conflict 91

6.2 Defined expressions 98

7 Syntactic and semantic options 102

7.1 Syntactic options 104

7.2 Semantic options 111

8 Senses of incomplete expressions 118

8.1 A de re proposal 118

8.2 Complex incomplete senses 123

8.2.1 Developing the proposal 125

8.2.2 Examples and equivalencies 134

8.2.3 Evaluating the proposal 137

9.1 Developing the procedural model 140

9.2 Two approaches to defined expressions 144.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references (pages 148-155) and index.

ISBN:

9780195314410

0195314417

OCLC:

85814012