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Rethinking Language, Mind, and Meaning (Hardcover)
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Rethinking Language, Mind, and Meaning (Hardcover)
Series: Carl G. Hempel Lecture Series
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In this book, Scott Soames argues that the revolution in the study
of language and mind that has taken place since the late nineteenth
century must be rethought. The central insight in the reigning
tradition is that propositions are representational. To know the
meaning of a sentence or the content of a belief requires knowing
which things it represents as being which ways, and therefore
knowing what the world must be like if it is to conform to how the
sentence or belief represents it. These are truth conditions of the
sentence or belief. But meanings and representational contents are
not truth conditions, and there is more to propositions than
representational content. In addition to imposing conditions the
world must satisfy if it is to be true, a proposition may also
impose conditions on minds that entertain it. The study of mind and
language cannot advance further without a conception of
propositions that allows them to have contents of both of these
sorts. Soames provides it. He does so by arguing that propositions
are repeatable, purely representational cognitive acts or
operations that represent the world as being a certain way, while
requiring minds that perform them to satisfy certain cognitive
conditions. Because they have these two types of content--one
facing the world and one facing the mind--pairs of propositions can
be representationally identical but cognitively distinct. Using
this breakthrough, Soames offers new solutions to several of the
most perplexing problems in the philosophy of language and mind.
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