Modality and meaning /
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| Author / Creator: | Lycan, William G. |
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| Imprint: | Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic, c1994. |
| Description: | xix, 335 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in linguistics and philosophy v. 53 Studies in linguistics and philosophy v. 53 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1674980 |
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Modality and meaning |
Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. The Trouble with Possible Worlds
- Ch. 2. Three Conceptions of Possible Worlds
- Ch. 3. Ersatzing for Fun and Profit
- Ch. 4. Against Concretism
- Ch. 5. Essences
- Ch. 6. Fiction and Essence
- Ch. 7. The Paradox of Naming Resolved by a Kinder, Gentler Theory of Direct Reference
- Ch. 8. Relative Modality
- Ch. 9. Semantic Competence, Funny Functors, and Truth-Conditions
- Ch. 10. Logical Constants and the Glory of Truth-Conditional Semantics
- Ch. 11. Propositions and Analyticity
- Ch. 12. Stipulative Definition and Logical Truth
- Ch. 13. Analogy and Lexical Semantics.