METHODOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON CURRENT LINGUISTIC THEORY

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Introduction 7
4. PART i : MEANING AND FORMAL SEMANTICS
5. ON SENSE AND REFERENCE 13
6. MEANING AND SYNONYMY IN NATURAL LANGUAGES 33
7. A SURVEY OF FORMAL SEMANTICS 48
8. TRUTH 83
9. ENGLISH AS A FORMAL LANGUAGE 94
10. ANALYSIS OF CONVERSATIONAL LANGUAGE 122
11. SEMANTICS FOR PROPOSITIONAL ATTITUDES 142
12. KNOWLEDGE, BELIEF, AND LOGICAL CONSEQUENCE 165
13. TENSE LOGICS AND THE TENSES OF ENGLISH 177
14. PART II: ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO MEANING
15. THE MEANING OF A WORD 187
16. TRUTH 203
17. CRITERIA OF INTENTIONALITY 226
18. PART III: PHILOSOPHERS ON GRAMMAR
19. A PROGRAM FOR SYNTAX 238
20. METHODOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON CURRENT LINGUISTIC THEORY 251
21. GRAMMAR AND PHILOSOPHY 263
22. PART IV: THE THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE AND LINGUISTIC THEORY
23. THE THOUGHT: A LOGICAL INQUIRY 279
24. COMPETENCE, CREATIVITY, AND INNATENESS 299
25. LINGUISTICS AND EPISTEMOLOGY 327
26. LINGUISTICS AS PSYCHOLOGY 336
27. Bibliography 344