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Critical Pragmatics: Truth Conditions Explained by Philip Hendrix is a document available to read on EtoBox.

This book by Korta & Perry puts forward the idea that utterances have both referential and reflexive truth conditions. Referential truth conditions determine if an utterance is factually true, while reflexive truth conditions provide information about the utterance itself without identifying referents. The authors argue that understanding reflexive truth conditions is important for communication and resolving puzzles about reference. They apply this approach to demonstratives, indexicals, names and descript

Author
Philip Hendrix
Language
EN