Singular Thought: Acquaintance, Semantic Instrumentalism, and Cognitivism

New Essays on Singular Thought

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Jeshion, Robin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquaintance; Cognitivism; Mental file; Object perception; Reference; Semantic instrumentalism; Semantics; Singular thought

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920924431     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199567881.003.0005     Document Type: Chapter

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