Words and Thoughts - Subsentences, Ellipsis, and the Philosophy of Language - Paperback - 2009

It is a near truism of philosophy of language that sentences are prior to wordsthat they are the only things that fundamentally have meaning. Roberts Staintons study interrogates this idea, drawing on a wide body of evidence to argue that speakers can and do use mere words, not sentences, to communicate complex thoughts.
Year of publication: 2009
Pagination: 272 pages, Figures
Format: Paperback