Truth and the absence of fact:
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Main Author: Field, Hartry H. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Clarendon Press 2001
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [392]-397) and index
pt. 1. Truth, meaning and propositional attitudes. -- Tarski's Theory of Truth -- Mental representation -- Stalnaker on intentionality -- Deflationist theories of meaning and content -- Attributions of meaning and content -- pt. 2. Indeterminacy and factual defectiveness. Theory Change and the Indeterminacy of Reference -- Quine and the Correspondence Theory -- Disquotational truth and factually defective discourse -- Some thoughts on radical indeterminacy -- Indeterminacy, degree of belief, and excluded middle -- pt. 3. Objectivity. Mathematical objectivity and mathematical objects -- Which undecidable sentences have determinate truth values? -- Apriority as an evaluative notion
Field presents a selection of 13 essays on a set of related topics at the foundations of philosophy. Five of the essays are about truth and meaning, five are about semantic indeterminacy, and three are about issues concerning objectivity
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xv, 401 p.)
ISBN:0191529206
0199241716
0199242895
9780191529207
9780199241712
9780199242894

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