Singular Thought: In Defence of Acquaintance

New Essays on Singular Thought

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Recanati, François ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b ÉCOLE DES HAUTES ÉTUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES   (France)

Author keywords

Acquaintance; Communication; Context; Descriptivism; Mental files; Russell; Semantic instrumentalism; Singular thought; Two dimensional semantics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920882239     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199567881.003.0006     Document Type: Chapter

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