Author | Lycan, William G. author |
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Title | Modality and Meaning [electronic resource] / by William G. Lycan |
Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1994 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0936-9 |
Descript | XXI, 338 p. online resource |
I Modality -- 1. The Trouble with Possible Worlds -- 2. Three Conceptions of Possible Worlds -- 3. Ersatzing for Fun and Profit -- 4. Against Concretism -- 5. Essences -- 6. Fiction and Essence -- 7. The Paradox of Naming Resolved by a Kinder, Gentler Theory of Direct Reference -- 8. Relative Modality -- II Meaning -- 9. Semantic Competence, Funny Functors, and Truth-Conditions -- 10. Logical Constants and the Glory of Truth- Conditional Semantics -- 11. Propositions and Analyticity -- 12. Stipulative Definition and Logical Truth -- 13. Analogy and Lexical Semantics -- Name Index