I : the meaning of the first-person term /

I is perhaps the most important and the least understood of our everyday expressions. This is a constant source of philosophical confusion. Max de Gaynesford offers a remedy: he explains what this expression means, its logical form and its inferential role. He thereby shows the way to an understandi...

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Meaning of the first-person term
1. Verfasser:
De Gaynesford, Maximilian
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press, 2006.
Zusammenfassung:
I is perhaps the most important and the least understood of our everyday expressions. This is a constant source of philosophical confusion. Max de Gaynesford offers a remedy: he explains what this expression means, its logical form and its inferential role. He thereby shows the way to an understanding of how we express first-personal thinking. He dissolves various myths about how I refers, to the effect that it is a pure indexical. His central claim is that thekey to understanding I is that it is the same kind of expression as the other singular personal pronouns, you and he/she: a deictic ter
Umfang:
1 online resource (x, 198 pages)
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English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [186]-192) and index.
ISBN:
1-281-15456-3
9786611154561
0-19-153704-7
1-4237-5734-3
Schlagworte:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Person.
Personality.
Reference (Linguistics)
Reasoning (Psychology)
Language and logic.
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