Thinking, language, and experience / Hector-Neri Castaneda.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Castaneda, Hector-Neri, 1924-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thought and thinking.

Semantics (Philosophy).

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Experience.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Thinking, language & experience

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1989.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Introduction; 1. Major Objective, Grand Strategy, Chief Topics; 2. The Four Mechanisms of Singular Reference: Our Chief Topics; 3. The Hierarchical Web of Reference; 4. Some Data: A Pentacostal Miracle in Reverse; 5. Strategic Plan and Major Methodological Focus and Constraints; 6. Some Major Theses Developed in the Ensuing Studies; Notes; Part I. The Language of Singular Reference; Chapter 2. The Semantics and the Causal Roles of Proper Names in Our Thinking of Particulars: The Restricted-Variable/Retrieval View of Proper Names

Chapter 3. Singular DescriptionsChapter 4. Indexical Reference is Experiential Reference; Chapter 5. Attributing Reference to Others: The Language of Other Minds; Part II. Reference and Experience; Chapter 6. Perception: Its Internal Indexical Accusatives and Their Implicit Quasi-Indexical Representation; Chapter 7. Deliberation, Intentional Action, and Indexical Reference; Chapter 8. Personality, Anaphora, and Verbal Tenses; Chapter 9. God and Knowledge: Omniscience and Indexical Reference; Chapter 10. Self and Reality: Metaphysical Internalism, Selves, and the Holistic Indivisible Noumenon

Chapter 11. Fiction and Reality: Ontological Questions about Literary ExperienceChapter 12. The Language of Other Minds: Indicators and Quasi-Indicators; Part III. A Semantic and Ontological Theory for the Language of Experience: Guise Theory; Chapter 13. Thinking and the Structure of the World; Chapter 14. Method, Individuals, and Guise Theory; Index; Author Index; Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0-8166-5539-1

1-4356-0605-1

OCLC:

182732640