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This course explores the nature of meaning and truth, and their bearing on the use of language in communication. No knowledge of logic or linguistics is presupposed.
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This course includes
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666 years, 7 months
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24
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- Introduction Unlimited
- Meaning and reference Unlimited
- Descriptions Unlimited
- Names and descriptions Unlimited
- Direct reference Unlimited
- What is meaning? Unlimited
- Empiricist theories Unlimited
- Psychological theories Unlimited
- Truth-conditional theories Unlimited
- Context sensitivity Unlimited
- The essential indexical Unlimited
- The Kripkenstein paradox Unlimited
- Naturalistic reduction Unlimited
- Speech acts Unlimited
- Illocutionary force Unlimited
- Presupposition Unlimited
- Assertion Unlimited
- Implicature Unlimited
- Attitudes, the hidden indexical theory Unlimited
- Attitudes, the implicature theory Unlimited
- Attitudes, the pragmatic theory Unlimited
- Non-literal speech Unlimited
- Semantic pretense and attitude ascriptions Unlimited
- Pragmatic pretense and Frege problems Unlimited
