Meaning Detachment

• Prelim pages | pp. i–iv
• Table of contents | pp. v–5
• Part 1. Meaning Detachment and Interpreting Utterances | pp. 1–44
• I. Detachment rule
• II. Detachment theorem
• III. The meaning-implication relation
• IV. Meaning detachment (weak version)
• V. The entailment of “mean” according to Grice
• VI. Incorporation of a consequence into meaning
• VII. Meaning detachment (strong version)
• VIII. Arbitrariness of signs
• IX. Linguistic marking of meaning detachment
• X. Meaning detachment from a partial interpretation
• XI. Some cases of non meaning detachment
• XII. Various extensions of meaning detachment
• Part 2. Self-Interpreting Utterances | pp. 45–87
• XIII. Self-referring implication
• XIV. Self-referring interpretation
• XV. Self-interpretive variants
• XVI. Self-reference in linguistic interpretations
• XVII. A caveat on the notion of “self-reference”
• XVIII. Self-interpreting thoughts?
• XIX. Some similarities between context-interpretations and self-interpretations
• XX. One difference between context-interpretations and self-interpretations
• XXI. “Insubordination” of the interpretans
• Appendix: explicit performatives are assertions
• 0. Assertion
• 1. Autonomous relevance of primary meaning
• 2. Contextual incorporation of primary meaning
• 3. Explicit performative answers
• 4. “True” explicit performatives
• 5. Explicit performatives embedded in assertion-inducers
• 6. Parenthetical explicit performatives in French
• 7. Reporting an explicit performative
• 8. Assertions induced by “and”
• 9. “And” versus “or”
• 10. A special case with ‘or’
• Conclusion
• Footnotes | pp. 109–120
• | pp. 121–124

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