Nondescriptive Meaning and Reference —— An Ideational Semantics

----- 非描述性涵义与参考：概念语义学

ISBN: 9780199261659 出版年：2006 页码：465 Davis, Wayne A Clarendon Press

Wayne Davis presents a highly original approach to the foundations of semantics, showing how the so-called 'expression' theory of meaning can handle names and other problematic cases of nondescriptive meaning. The fact that thoughts have parts ('ideas' or 'concepts') is fundamental: Davis argues that like other unstructured words, names mean what they do because they are conventionally used to express atomic or basic ideas. In the process he shows that many pillars of contemporary philosophical semantics, from twin earth arguments to the necessity of identity, are unfounded.