AuthorDavis, Wayne A., 1951-
TitleNondescriptive meaning and reference [electronic resource] : an ideational semantics / Wayne A. Davis
Imprint Oxford : Clarendon, 2005
Connect tohttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/0199261652.001.0001
Descript 1 online resource (xiii, 450 p.) : ill

SUMMARY

Wayne Davis presents a highly original approach to the foundations of semantics, showing how the so-called 'expression' theory of meaning can handle names and other problematic cases of nondescriptive meaning


SUBJECT

  1. Meaning (Philosophy)
  2. Reference (Philosophy)