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OXFORD PHILOSOPHICAL MONOGRAPHS
SEMANTIC POWERS
PUBLISHED IN THE SERIES
Semantic PowersMeaning and the Means of Knowing in Classical Indian Philosophy
PREFACE
CONTENTS
Introduction
IThe Nature of Language
1.1 UNDERSTANDING AS AN INSTRUMENT OF KNOWING
1.2 THE LANGUAGE FACULTY
1.3 MANDATED MEANING
1.4 NORMATIVITY
2Instruments of Knowledge
2.1 SEMANTIC ROLES
2.2 KNOWLEDGE
2.3 TESTIMONY
3Meaning Relata
3.1 THE REALIST THEORY OF MEANING
3.2 MEANINGS AS PROPERTIES
3.3 MEANINGS AS PARTICULARS
3.4 MEANINGS AS PROPERTIED PARTICULARS
4The Meaning Relation
4.1 THE MEANING RELATION
4-2 VY§I'S THEORY OF MEANING
4.3 MEANING AND CONTEXT
4.4 COMPLEX DESCRIPTIONS AND REFERENCE FAILURE
5Meaning and Modes of Thought
5.1 VARDHAMĀNA'S THESIS
5.3 MODES AS FREGEAN SENSES
5.4 GADĀDHARA ON THE FORM OF A MEANING THEORY
6Stipulation
6.1 THEORETICAL NAMES
6.2 PROPER NAMES AND DIRECT REFERENCE
6.3 DIAGNOSTIC STIPULATIONS
7Indexicality
7.1 RUNNING ELEMENTS
7.2 PRONOUNS, ANAPHORA, AND SPEAKERS' THOUGHTS
7.4 THE FIRST-PERSON PRONOUN WITHIN SPEECH REPORTS
LIST OF SYMBOLS
INDEX
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