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A collection of essays, which debate the questions of logical versus psychologically-based interpretations of language.

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" ... An excellent collection ... " Journal of Language & Social Psychology

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Introduction: Marco Santambrogio and Patrizia Violi

On the Circumstantial Relation between Meaning and Content: Jon Barwise

On Truth. A Fiction: Umberto Eco

Quantification, Roles and Domains: Gilles Fauconnier

Conceptual Semantics: Ray Jackendoff

How Is Meaning Mentally Represented?: Philip N. Johnson-Laird

Cognitive Semantics: George Lakoff

The Analysis of Nominal Compounds: Wendy G. Lehnert

Knowledge Representation in People and Machines: Roger Schank and Alex Kass

Identity in Intensional Logic: Subjective Semantics: Bas Van Fraassen

Reference and Its Role in Computational Models of Mental Representation: Yorick Wilks

Meaning and Mental Representations

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      Publisher Indiana University Press
      Published 22 December 1988
      ISBN-13 9780253204967
      978-0253204967
      ISBN-10 0253204968
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      Phenomenology and Existentialism Books by Umberto Eco

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A collection of essays, which debate the questions of logical versus psychologically-based interpretations of language.

      Trade Review
      " ... An excellent collection ... " Journal of Language & Social Psychology

      Table of Contents

      Introduction: Marco Santambrogio and Patrizia Violi

      On the Circumstantial Relation between Meaning and Content: Jon Barwise

      On Truth. A Fiction: Umberto Eco

      Quantification, Roles and Domains: Gilles Fauconnier

      Conceptual Semantics: Ray Jackendoff

      How Is Meaning Mentally Represented?: Philip N. Johnson-Laird

      Cognitive Semantics: George Lakoff

      The Analysis of Nominal Compounds: Wendy G. Lehnert

      Knowledge Representation in People and Machines: Roger Schank and Alex Kass

      Identity in Intensional Logic: Subjective Semantics: Bas Van Fraassen

      Reference and Its Role in Computational Models of Mental Representation: Yorick Wilks

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