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Words and thoughts: subsentences, ellipsis, and the philosophy of language

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It is a near truism of philosophy of language that sentences are prior to words---that they are the only things that fundamentally have meaning.

Robert's Stainton's study interrogates this idea, drawing on a wide body of evidence to argue that speakers can and do use mere words, not sentences, to communicate complex thoughts.

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Clarendon Press
0191530549 / 9780191530548
eBook (Adobe Pdf)
401
23/04/2009
England
English
248 pages
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