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From Naming to Saying examines the classical question of the unity of the proposition: how the parts of the sentence which separately name an object and a property combine to say some single thing or express a proposition. The volume presents and discusses three great historical theories: Frege's doctrine of concept and object, Russell's analysis of the sentence, and Wittgenstein's picture theory of meaning. It explores whether the semantic distinction between subject and predicate can be explained, as P. F. Strawson maintained, by the metaphysical distinction between the things named, particulars and universals. And it offers a novel solution, arguing that the utterance of a sentence expresses a unitary proposition because of the interlocking causal explanations of the constituent utterances that comprise the act of uttering a sentence. This important work will be of interest to students of linguistics and semantics as well as philosophers.
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- Author/s Gibson, Martha I.
- ISBN13 9780631226567
- ISBN10 0631226567
- Pages 228
- Published 2004
From Naming to Saying: A History and Causal Account of the Unity of the Proposition
- Author Martha I. Gibson
- Publisher BLACKWELL
- ISBN 9780631226567
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