B GEURTS
Biographic Data
| ID | 10619484 |
|---|---|
| NAME | B GEURTS |
| GIVEN NAMES | B |
| FAMILY NAME | GEURTS |
| SIGNATURE | GEURTS B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Osnabrück University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Editors' Preface
It is evident that, in theory, researchers in the cognitive sciences and semantics have nothing to lose and a lot to gain from working together. In practice, however, contacts have for a long time been lukewarm, at best. A few decades ago, this could have been blamed on the fact that semantics was viewed, by many of its practitioners and outsiders alike, as being concerned with a formal characterisation of language rather than what goes on in the…
Good news about the description theory of names
This is an attempt at reviving Kneale's version of the description theory of names, which says that a proper name is synonymous with a definite description of the form ‘the individual named so-and-so’. To begin with, I adduce a wide range of observations to show that names and overt definites are alike in all relevant respects. I then turn to Kripke's main objection against Kneale's proposal, and endeavour to refute it. In the remainder of the pa…
On No
Since Jacobs (1980) it has been generally assumed that German Kein ‘no’ requires a decompostitional analysis. On this analysis, Kein means ‘not some’, which in itself is plausible enough, but furthermore it is claimed that the negative element of kein may be construed as having scope over an expression that, in its turn, outscopes the quantifying element. 1 propose an alternative to this decompositional theory which explains the same range of dat…
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On No
Since Jacobs (1980) it has been generally assumed that German Kein ‘no’ requires a decompostitional analysis. On this analysis, Kein means ‘not some’, which in itself is plausible enough, but furthermore it is claimed that the negative element of kein may be construed as having scope over an expression that, in its turn, outscopes the quantifying element. 1 propose an alternative to this decompositional theory which explains the same range of dat…
Good news about the description theory of names
This is an attempt at reviving Kneale's version of the description theory of names, which says that a proper name is synonymous with a definite description of the form ‘the individual named so-and-so’. To begin with, I adduce a wide range of observations to show that names and overt definites are alike in all relevant respects. I then turn to Kripke's main objection against Kneale's proposal, and endeavour to refute it. In the remainder of the pa…
Editors' Preface
It is evident that, in theory, researchers in the cognitive sciences and semantics have nothing to lose and a lot to gain from working together. In practice, however, contacts have for a long time been lukewarm, at best. A few decades ago, this could have been blamed on the fact that semantics was viewed, by many of its practitioners and outsiders alike, as being concerned with a formal characterisation of language rather than what goes on in the…
Computer Science (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (2 works) · Range (aeronautics) (2 works) · Arithmetic (1 works) · Cognition (1 works) · Cognitive science (1 works) · Cognitive semantics (1 works)