Words and Thoughts: Subsentences, Ellipsis, and the Philosophy of Language by Robert Stainton

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Words and Thoughts: Subsentences, Ellipsis, and the Philosophy of Language by Robert StaintonISBN: 9780199250394 Oxford University Press, 23 April 2009 Soft cover, 262 pages It is a near truism of philosophy of language that sentences are prior to words. Sentences, it is said, are what we believe, assert, and argue for; uses of them constitute our evidence in semantics; only they stand in inferential relations, and are true or false. Sentences are, indeed, the only things that fundamentally have meaning. Does this near truism really hold of

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