Perspectival thought : a plea for (moderate) relativism /

Our thought and talk are situated. They do not take place in a vacuum but always in a context, and they always concern an external situation relative to which they are to be evaluated. Since that is so, Fran--ccedil--;ois Recanati argues, our linguistic and mental representations alike must be assig...

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Plea for (moderate) relativism
1. Verfasser:
Récanati, François
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Zusammenfassung:
Our thought and talk are situated. They do not take place in a vacuum but always in a context, and they always concern an external situation relative to which they are to be evaluated. Since that is so, Fran--ccedil--;ois Recanati argues, our linguistic and mental representations alike must be assigned two layers of content: the explicit content, or lekton, is relative and perspectival, while the complete content, which is absolute, involves contextual factors in addition towhat is explicitly represented. Far from reducing to the context-independent meaning of the sentence-type or, in the psyc
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1 online resource (ix, 308 pages)
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Description based upon print version of record.
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English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-299) and index.
ISBN:
0-19-923054-4
1-281-15030-4
9786611150303
0-19-152814-5
1-4356-2206-5
Schlagworte:
Relativity.
Relationism.
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