Language and Thought
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John L. Pollock
About this book
Most philosophical theories of language have assumed that statements (products of assertion) and propositions (objects of belief) are the same things. John L. Pollock denies this, maintaining that even when the speaker is perfectly sincere, what he is thinking need not be the same thing as what he is saying.
Originally published in 1982.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Preface
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I. The Statemental Theory of Meaning
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II. Traditional Theories of Proper Names
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III. The Meaning of a Proper Name
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IV. Singular Terms
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V. The Traditional Theory of Predicates
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VI. Synthetic Predicates
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VII. Nonsynthetic Predicates
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VIII. The Alethic Modalities
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IX. Doxastic and Epistemic Sentences
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X. Languages, Institutions, and Conventions
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XI. Stating
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XII. Nondeclarative Sentences
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Appendix: A General Statemental Semantics
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Bibliography
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Index
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