Contexts of Understanding

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Herman Parret

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This essay deals with the difficulty of understanding understanding, taking the understanding of natural language fragments as a paradigm.

[Pragmatics & Beyond, I:6] 1980. viii, 109 pp.

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Published online on 21 November 2011

https://doi.org/10.1075/pb.i.6

Table of Contents

Prelim pages | pp. i–iv

Preface | pp. v–vi

Table of contents | pp. vii–viii

1. Introduction | pp. 1–10

1.1. The difficulty of understanding understanding
1.2. Understanding versus explanation, interpretation and translation
1.3. Aspects of a psycho-pragmatic theory of understanding

2. Significance and Understanding | pp. 11–34

2.1. Acceptance
2.2. What we understand when understanding
2.3. How we understand when understanding
2.4. Presentification and describability

3. Perspectival Understanding | pp. 35–72

3.1. Prolegomena
3.2. Fregean interlude
3.3. φ(p*…)
3.4. π[φ(p*…)]

4. Contextualism and Transcendentalism in the Theory of Understanding | pp. 73–96

4.1. Contextualism
4.2. Transcendentalism

Footnotes | pp. 97–104

| pp. 105–109

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