Index

Abell, Catharine 12, 28, 32, 35, 44–48, 55, 128

allegory 11, 59

ambiguity 133, 134–135, 136–137, 146–147

analysis 23–27

reciprocal 25

reductive 21, 25–26, 31, 42, 144–145

anamorphism 167

a posteriori necessity 168

arbitrariness 22, 67–70, 72–73, 75–76, 77–79, 90, 99–100, 114, 186

Armstrong, David 183, 189, 191

assertion 35, 144–145

Braddon-Mitchell, David 100, 101, 114

Casati, Roberto 100, 103–104, 106, 113

causation 21, 22, 54, 56–57, 63, 66, 121, 144

chess diagrams 69, 80, 101, 102, 108, 109, 110, 112, 115, 122–124, 126

cinema 54, 114, 124

colour 15, 27, 191

commands 35

compositionality 99–101, 102–103, 106, 107, 110–116, 117–138

conditionals 23–24, 48–49, 59, 88

context 128–130, 136, 137

convention 40, 73–76, 88, 94

Currie, Gregory 35, 114, 136, 163

Davidson, Donald 118

dispositions 118–121

experience 12, 27, 44, 142–144, 147, 149, 154

fiction 11, 35, 38–39, 140

finite axiomatization constraint 106–108, 113

Fodor, Jerry 100

Goodman, Nelson 18, 67, 68–70, 82, 145–148, 148, 182, 188, 194

grammar 100, 101, 115–116, 146

Greenberg, Gabriel 168

Grice, Paul 28, 31, 47, 118

hallucination 143–144, 147, 149, 154

Harman, Gilbert 40, 85

Hopkins, Robert 15, 17, 26, 36, 55, 142

Hyman, John 11, 15, 16, 188

imperatives 32, 80–81

impossible pictures 168–170, 172–173

impossible worlds 174, 175

indexicals 128–129

indication 10, 21–23, 56, 144

indicatives 32, 80–81

infinitary conjunction 107–108, 109, 111

infinity 104–106, 114, 185, 187, 190, 195–196

intensions

diagonal 170–171, 177

horizontal 171, 177

structured 176, 177

two-dimensional 170–171, 176, 177

intention 41, 42, 52

necessity of 45, 47, 52–57, 79

sufficiency of 60–63

intentionalism 52

intentionality 47, 49, 139–145, 147, 149, 152, 154, 157, 158

Jackson, Frank 100, 101, 114

Kulvicki, John 83, 137

language 70–71

innate 89, 111

in the abstract 72, 97

in use 72, 86–87, 90, 94–98

non-literal 23, 45, 94–96

Lewis, David 14, 76, 86, 162, 163, 190, 194

Lopes, Dominic 69

malapropisms 61, 132–133

maps 10, 70, 88–89, 100, 103–104, 106–107, 113–114, 123

meaning

sentence 31, 32, 47, 60–61, 63, 67, 79, 87, 97, 98, 134, 137–138, 144

speaker 31–41, 47, 54–55, 57–58, 60–61, 63–64, 67, 87–89, 96, 97, 98, 133–134, 137–138, 144

theories of 101, 102, 105–107, 128, 129, 134, 135

Meinongianism 149–151, 156–157, 160

metaphor 61, 95, 132, 133

mirror constraint 108–111

misrepresentation 47–49, 139–143, 146, 147, 150, 153, 156

modes of presentation 169, 171

mood 80–81

Newall, Michael 15, 16, 44, 187

nominalism

class 165, 180, 185–188, 194, 197

predicate 148, 180, 182–185, 194, 197–198

non-existents 47–49, 139–145, 146, 148–158, 160, 168, 176

non-particulars 47, 48, 139–143, 146–147, 148–150, 153, 156, 171, 176

objectivity 15–16, 186–188, 194–195, 197–198

onomatopoeia 19, 20, 46–47, 79–80

performatives 39

perspective 161, 163–165

photography 10, 22, 54–57, 63–66, 180–181

physicalism 24–25, 27, 31, 144–145

possibilia 48, 150, 155, 186

possible worlds 150, 155, 156, 159–165, 175, 187

centred 162–165, 168, 187

predicates 14, 103, 121, 145–147, 180, 182–185

properties 14–21, 165–167, 174, 180, 182–183, 185–188

abundant 14–15, 16, 19, 43

centred 166–168, 187

conjunctive 188

disjunctive 189–193, 195

negative 189, 191–193, 195

sparse 14–15, 16, 43, 188–193

structured 175

quantification 144

substitutional 5, 107–108

Quine, Willard 5, 100, 163

rationality 63, 64, 66, 91

realism 182

degrees of 179–182, 190–193, 196–198

reasons 64–66, 91–92

recognition 12, 43, 110–111, 112–113, 124

representation

conventional 21, 22, 23

intentional 21, 22–23, 32, 49, 51

mental 25, 144–145

natural 21–23, 54, 56–57, 63

non-natural 21–23, 25, 54, 57, 63

theories of 102–108

resemblance 13

as a relation 139, 147, 148

as sharing properties 13–19, 43, 140, 148–149, 180, 193, 194

degrees of 179–182, 185, 186, 188, 189–198

experienced 36–39, 44, 142–145

necessity of 13, 16, 17, 59, 142

reflexivity of 17, 19, 35, 37, 70

sufficiency of 13, 16–20, 21, 35, 36–39, 41, 52, 70, 78, 141

symmetry of 17–18

Ross, Jeff 161, 162

Schier, Flint 101

Scruton, Roger 100, 101, 114

Sellars, Wilfrid 31, 118

states of affairs 80–82, 151–158, 160, 170, 175–176

structural constraint 111–116

subjectivity 15–16, 182–183, 187, 194–195, 197–198

symbol systems 12, 67–70, 71

depictive 22, 69–70, 73, 77–83, 88–89, 97–98

in the abstract 72–73, 82, 92

in use 72–73, 79, 82, 86, 88–98

tacit knowledge 117–126, 130, 135–137

truthfulness 76, 79–81, 86–87

Varzi, Achille 100, 103–104, 106, 113