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Author Forbes, Graeme.

Title Attitude problems : an essay on linguistic intensionality / Graeme Forbes
Published Oxford : Clarendon ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 194 pages) : illustrations
Contents Preface; Table of Contents; Chapter 1: Compositionality; Chapter 2: A Brief Guide to Type Theory; Chapter 3: Intensional Transitives; Chapter 4: Propositionalism; Chapter 5: Quantifiers and Characterization; Chapter 6: Unspecificity and Inference; Chapter 7: Verbs of Creation and Depiction; Chapter 8: Substitutivity; Bibliography; Index
Summary Ascriptions of mental states to oneself and others give rise to many interesting logical and semantic problems. Attitude Problems presents an original account of mental state ascriptions that are made using intensional transitive verbs such as 'want', 'seek', 'imagine', and 'worship'. Forbes offers a theory of how such verbs work that draws on ideas from natural language semantics, philosophy of language, and aesthetics. - ;Ascriptions of mental states to oneself and others give rise to many interesting logical and semantic problems. Attitude Problems presents an original account of mental sta
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-187) and index
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Subject Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Transitivity.
English language -- Verb.
English language -- Transitivity.
Semantics.
Intention (Logic)
semantics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Semantics.
English language -- Transitivity
English language -- Verb
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Transitivity
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb
Intention (Logic)
Semantics
Intensionales Verb
Intensionale Logik
Semantiek.
Werkwoorden.
Englisch.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2006299298
ISBN 0191534560
9780191534560
9780191699801
0191699802
9786611164614
6611164618
1281164615
9781281164612