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The building blocks of meaning : ideas for a philosophical grammar / Michele Prandi

Author
Prandi, Michele, 1949-
Published
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., [2004]
Copyright Date
©2004
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1 online resource (xviii, 520 pages).
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Contents
The Building Blocks of Meaning; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Part I: The semiotic background; Chapter 1. Meanings and messages; Chapter 2. The ideation of complex meanings; Chapter 3. At the roots of complex meanings; Part II: The conceptual factors of signi®cance; Chapter 4. Consistency criteria within philosophic and linguistic reflexion; Chapter 5. The formal framework of natural ontology; Chapter 6. Lexical structures and lexical information; Chapter 7. Lexical structures, lexical information and consistency criteria.
Summary
The shaping of complex meanings depends on punctual and relational coding and inferencing. Coding is viewed as a vector which can run either from expression to content or from concepts to (linguistic) forms to mark independent conceptual relations. While coding relies on systematic resources internal to language, inferencing essentially depends on a layered system of autonomous shared conceptual structures, which include both cognitive models and consistency criteria grounded in a natural ontology. Inference guided by coding is not a residual pragmatic device but it is a direct way to long-ter.
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1423761316 (electronic bk.)
9781423761310 (electronic bk.)
9027295409
9789027295408
1588115267 (alk. paper)
9781588115263 (alk. paper)
9027223653 (Eur.)
9789027223654 (Eur.)
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 483-511) and index.
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