Ockham's assumption of mental speech : : thinking in a world of particulars / / by Sonja Schierbaum.

In Ockham’s Assumption of Mental Speech: Thinking in a World of Particulars , Sonja Schierbaum advances a detailed philosophical reconstruction of William Ockham’s (1287-1349) conception of mental speech. Ockham’s conception provides a rich account of cognition and semantics that binds together vari...

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Superior document:Investigating Medieval Philosophy, Volume 6
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014.
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Investigating medieval philosophy ; Volume 6.
Physical Description:1 online resource (276 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • The Basic Characteristics of Language: Signification and Supposition
  • Ockham’s Semantic Model: Subordination, Correspondence, and the Role of Mental Speech with Respect to Spoken Language
  • Ockham’s Model of Thought
  • Why Ockham Is Not Fodor
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Subjects.