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| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| I | Fregean Beginnings | 1 |
| 1 | A Puzzle | 1 |
| 2 | Sense as a Criterion of Identification of a Reference | 8 |
| 3 | Empty Names | 10 |
| 4 | Sentences as Referring Expressions | 13 |
| 5 | Further Consequences of Compositionality | 18 |
| 6 | Oblique Contexts | 21 |
| 7 | Thoughts | 25 |
| II | Definite Descriptions and Other Objects of Wonder | 44 |
| 1 | Russell's Theory of Descriptions | 45 |
| 2 | Descriptions in the Syntax of English | 65 |
| 3 | Strawson's Criticisms of Russell | 71 |
| 4 | The Referential-Attributive Distinction | 79 |
| 5 | Descriptions, Pronouns, and Anaphora | 89 |
| III | Truth and Meaning: The Tarskian Paradigm | 113 |
| 1 | Tarski's Theory of Truth | 113 |
| 2 | Tarski and the Semantics of Natural Language: Problems and Prospects | 145 |
| IV | Foundations of Intensional Semantics | 181 |
| 1 | Hallmarks of Intensionality | 181 |
| 2 | Intensions | 201 |
| 3 | Names and Descriptions Again | 212 |
| 4 | Satisfaction and Truth in Quantified Modal Logic | 218 |
| 5 | A Brief Guide to the Metaphysics of Modality | 229 |
| 6 | The Need Question Reconsidered | 246 |
| V | Language and Context | 258 |
| 1 | A Challenge to Fregean Semantics | 261 |
| 2 | Content vs. Character; Circumstance vs. Context | 269 |
| 3 | Indexicals as Expressions of Direct Reference | 276 |
| 4 | Character, Content, and Propositional Attitudes | 282 |
| 5 | Kaplan on Demonstratives | 291 |
| VI | Language in Action | 303 |
| 1 | Preliminaries | 303 |
| 2 | Grice on Meaning and Intention | 311 |
| 3 | An Illustrative Taxonomy of Illocutionary Acts | 319 |
| 4 | Conversational Implicature | 334 |
| 5 | Presupposition Again | 347 |
| Bibliography | 382 | |
| Index | 390 |
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Jennifer E Combs
reviewed Truth and Meaning: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language on January 26, 2009
Truth and Meaning
Plantinga makes enormous assumptions about the nature of truth, the reliability of our senses, memory, the nature of logic and mathematics, he ignores historical developments, and his reasoning from analogy is comically flawed.
This is painful to read.
There are moments where he realizes how shaky the ground he is building upon is. But instead of realizing it means he should abandon the project (vis-a-vis reductio ad absurdum) he pushes on.
He has convinced me that any philosophical attempt to explain knowledge needs to incorporate the findings of psychology. Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Locke, Descartes, etc did not have recourse to such a discipline. Plantinga has no such excuse, except to hide in an academic silo.
I do not think he establishes that warrant exists.
This is rubbish. From start to finish.
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