Browsing Philosophy by Subject "Philosophy of Language"

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The Measure Of Meaning

Pollon, Simon Carl (University of Waterloo, 2007-09-27)

There exists a broad inclination among those who theorize about mental representation to assume that the meanings of linguistic units, like words, are going to be identical to, and work exactly like, mental representations, ...
Reasonable Assertions: On Norms of Assertion and Why You Don't Need to Know What You're Talking About

McKinnon, Rachel (University of Waterloo, 2012-04-17)

There’s a widespread conviction in the norms of assertion literature that an agent’s asserting something false merits criticism. As Williamson puts it, asserting something false is likened to cheating at the game of ...
Rigid Designation, the Modal Argument, and the Nominal Description Theory

Isenberg, Jillian (University of Waterloo, 2005)

In this thesis, I describe and evaluate two recent accounts of naming. These accounts are motivated by Kripke?s response to Russell?s Description Theory of Names (DTN). Particularly, I consider Kripke?s Modal Argument ...