Words and Thoughts

Author	: Robert Stainton
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Total Pages	: 261
Release	: 2006
ISBN-10	: 9780199250387
ISBN-13	: 0199250383
Rating	: 4/5 (383 Downloads)

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Download or read book Words and Thoughts written by Robert Stainton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a near truism of philosophy of language that sentences are prior to words---that they are the only things that fundamentally have meaning. Robert's Stainton's study interrogates this idea, drawing on a wide body of evidence to argue that speakers can and do use mere words, not sentences, to communicate complex thoughts.

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