The Pragmatic Understanding of Language and the Argumentative Function of Logic

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface v
3. Contents vii
4. List of Contributors ix
5. Introduction 1
6. I. How to Understand Understanding
7. On Understanding the Difficulty in Understanding Understanding 29
8. “I know what you mean, but if only I understood you ...” 44
9. On the Semantic Structure of ‘Meaning’ and ‘Understanding’ 61
10. II. Explaining and Understanding ‘Meaning and Understanding’
11. Intentions, Conventions, and Reference to Things: Dimensions of Understanding Meaning in Hermeneutics and in Analytic Philosophy of Language 79
12. Herméneutique et linguistique 112
13. Understanding and Rationality 154
14. III. Knowledge, Thought, Truth and Interpretation
15. Universals of Knowledge – Contraints on Understanding? 171
16. Principles of Conversation, Speech Acts, and Radical Interpretation 184
17. Truth and the Theory of Content 204
18. IV. Beyond Frege
19. Anti-Realism and the Epistemology of Understanding 225
20. Perspectival Understanding 249
21. Understanding Demonstratives 280
22. Sens frégéen et compréhension de la langue 304
23. V. Semantic Theory and Pragmatic Functioning of Understanding
24. Strategies of Understanding 327
25. Les conditions dialogiques de la compréhension ou le paradoxe de Narcisse 353
26. VI. Formal and Pragmatic Understanding of Formalisms
27. Qu’est-ce que comprendre la formule: «2 + 2 = 4»? 389
28. The Pragmatic Understanding of Language and the Argumentative Function of Logic 402
29. Understanding and the Limits of Formal Thinking 411
30. General Bibliography 423
31. Author Index 439
32. 443-446 443