Whither experimental semantics?

Theoria-Revista De Teoria Historia Y Fundamentos De La Ciencia

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 5-36

  Devitt, Michael ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Corpus; Experiments; Kripke; Linguistic intuitions; Linguistic usage; Machery; Mallon; Methodology; Nichols; Reference; Stich

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859977082     PISSN: 04954548     EISSN: 2171679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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