Abstract: Abstract Imagine Andrew walks into a room, holds up a cigarette, and says ‘From France’ to Sylvia. We think it is obvious that, in this case, Andrew could easily convey a proposition. Let us agree that Andrew communicates, about the cigarette, that it is from France. A singular proposition. He can do this because, as will be obvious to both Andrew and Sylvia, what Andrew means clearly is not the property λx. from-France(x). How could he mean that? Thus, to treat him as co-operating, Sylvia must find a proposition meant, and the most obvious one is precisely this singular proposition. Supposing that what is communicated is this proposition, consider now what expression was produced.
Publication Year: 2003
Publication Date: 2003-10-09
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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