Meaning and Understanding / / ed. by Herman Parret, Jacques Bouveresse.

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2012]
©1981
Year of Publication:2012
Edition:Reprint 2012
Language:English
Series:Grundlagen der Kommunikation und Kognition / Foundations of Communication and Cognition
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Physical Description:1 online resource (442 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • List of Contributors
  • Introduction
  • I. How to Understand Understanding
  • On Understanding the Difficulty in Understanding Understanding
  • “I know what you mean, but if only I understood you ...”
  • On the Semantic Structure of ‘Meaning’ and ‘Understanding’
  • II. Explaining and Understanding ‘Meaning and Understanding’
  • Intentions, Conventions, and Reference to Things: Dimensions of Understanding Meaning in Hermeneutics and in Analytic Philosophy of Language
  • Herméneutique et linguistique
  • Understanding and Rationality
  • III. Knowledge, Thought, Truth and Interpretation
  • Universals of Knowledge – Contraints on Understanding?
  • Principles of Conversation, Speech Acts, and Radical Interpretation
  • Truth and the Theory of Content
  • IV. Beyond Frege
  • Anti-Realism and the Epistemology of Understanding
  • Perspectival Understanding
  • Understanding Demonstratives
  • Sens frégéen et compréhension de la langue
  • V. Semantic Theory and Pragmatic Functioning of Understanding
  • Strategies of Understanding
  • Les conditions dialogiques de la compréhension ou le paradoxe de Narcisse
  • VI. Formal and Pragmatic Understanding of Formalisms
  • Qu’est-ce que comprendre la formule: «2 + 2 = 4»?
  • The Pragmatic Understanding of Language and the Argumentative Function of Logic
  • Understanding and the Limits of Formal Thinking
  • General Bibliography
  • Author Index
  • 443-446