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Table of contents :
Cover
Beyond the Letter: A Philosophical Inquiry into Ambiguity, Vagueness and Metaphor in Language
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
1. Idealisation and Deviation
2. Varieties of Understanding
3. Theoretical Accounts and Their Difficulties
4. Inscriptionalistic Assumptions
I: Ambiguity
1. Introduction to the Problem
2. Inscriptions and Extensions: Elementary Ambiguity
3. E-ambiguity, Generality, Vagueness
4. Ambiguity ofOccurrence: I-ambiguity
5. Ambiguity of Occurrence: M-ambiguity
6. A New Problem: Green Centaurs
7. Difference in Meaning
8. Constituent Ambiguity
9. Compound Ambiguity
10. Mention-selection
II: Vagueness
1. Vagueness and I-ambiguity
2. Vagueness, Generality, Precision
3. Vagueness and Molecular Compounds
4. Vagueness, Atomic Compounds and Mention-selection
5. Kelativitj and the Universality of Vagueness
6. The Possibility of Vagueness
7. Open texture, Compounds and Mention-selection
8. Open texture and Analyticity
9. Open texture and Relative Terms
10. Open texture and Classification
11. Vagueness and Logic
12. Vagueness, Meaning and Fact
III: Metaphor
1. Metaphor, Mention-selection and E-ambiguity
2. Intuitionistic Approach to Metaphor
3. Emotivism and Metaphor
4. Formulaic Approach to Metaphor
5. Intensional Approach to Metaphor
6. Evaluation of Intensionalism
7. Interactionsm and Metaphor
8. Evaluation of Interactionism
9. Contextualism and Metaphor
10. Evaluation of Contextualism
11. Metaphor and Exploration
Notes
Index
Citation preview
Beyond the Letter
International Library of Philosophy and Scientific Method
Editor: Ted Honderich A Catalogue of books already published in the International Library of Philosophy and Scientific Method will be found at the end of this volume
Beyond the Letter A Philosophical Inquiry into Ambiguity, Vagueness and Metaphor in Language Israel Scheffler Harvard University
BE ROUTLEDGE & KEGAN PAUL LONDON, BOSTON AND HENLEY
First published in 1979 by Routledge