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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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666 years, 7 months

Units & Quizzes

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