Ideational Theories The whipping boy here is usually John Locke (1690/1955), since Locke seems to have held that the meanings of linguistic expressions are ideas in the mind. On this sort of view, what it is for a string of marks or ...
David Lewis takes the view that what is true in a given fiction is what is true in the most similar possible worlds to the actual world in which the story is told as known fact, instead of as fiction (Lewis 1978).
Braun, D.52 broadening and narrowing 171–172, 210 Brogaard, B. 28 Burge, T. 143 Camp, E. 189 cancelability of implicature 167–169 ... D.E. 208 Cooperative Principle 164–165 counterfactual conditionals 133–134 Coyle, M. 159 Cresswell, ...
Index Burge , T. 49 , 166 a ( the assignment function ) 169-70 abstract entities 14 , 83-6,90-1 , 151 Ackerman , D.F. 59 ... E.H. 6-8 Bradley's regress 6-8 Brandom , R. 89 , 97-8 Cooperative Principle ( CP ) 191-2 Coyle , M. 185 Index.
A Contemporary Introduction William G Lycan, William G. Lycan. Many of the writings to be discussed in this ... Problems in the Philosophy of Language (Austin, TX: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969); J. F. Rosenberg and C. Travis (eds.) ...
Lewis , D. Convention . ( Cambridge , MA : Harvard University Press 1969 ) . Lewis , D. " How to Define Theoretical Terms " , Journal of Philosophy LXVII ( 1970 ) . Lewis , D. " Psychophysical and Theoretical Identifications " ...
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