I The Meaning Of The First Person Term

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I: The Meaning of the First Person Term

I: The Meaning of the First Person Term
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 209
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ISBN-10 : 9780199287826
ISBN-13 : 0199287821
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Book Synopsis I: The Meaning of the First Person Term by : Maximilian de Gaynesford

Download or read book I: The Meaning of the First Person Term written by Maximilian de Gaynesford and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-02 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I is perhaps the most important and the least understood of our everyday expressions. This is a constant source of philosophical confusion. Max de Gaynesford offers a remedy: he explains what this expression means, its logical form and its inferential role. He thereby shows the way to an understanding of how we express first-personal thinking. He dissolves various myths about how I refers, to the effect that it is a pure indexical. His central claim is that thekey to understanding I is that it is the same kind of expression as the other singular personal pronouns, you and he/she: a deictic term, whose reference depends on making an individual salient. He addresses epistemological questions as well as semantic questions, and shows how they interrelate.The book thus not only resolves a key issue in philosophy of language, but promises to be of great use to people working on problems in other areas of philosophy.


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