Compositionality, Context and Semantic Values: Essays in Honour of Ernie Lepore

By Christopher Viger

Book Overview

Compositionality.- "If", "Unless", and Quantification.- Bridging the Paratactic Gap.- Context and "What Is Said".- On the Epistemic Utility of What is Said.- In Defense of Context Shifting Arguments.- Contextualism, Skepticism and Objectivity.- On Failing to Capture some (or even all) of what is Communicated.- Semantic Values.- The Disunity of Truth.- Descriptions, Negation, and Focus.- Evidentials: Some Preliminary Distinctions.- The Direct Expression of Metaphorical Content.- The Empirical Case for Bare Demonstratives in Vision.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 904817838X
• ISBN13: 9789048178384
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"