Thought and world: an austere portrayal of truth, reference, and semantic correspondence
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Main Author: Hill, Christopher S. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, U.K. Cambridge University Press 2002
Series:Cambridge studies in philosophy
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-146) and index
Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Truth in the Realm of Thoughts; 3 The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: Reconciling Deflationary Semantics with Correspondence Intuitions; 4 Indexical Representation and Deflationary Semantics; 5 Why Meaning Matters; 6 Into the Wild Blue Yonder: Nondesignating Concepts, Vagueness, Semantic Paradox, and Logical Paradox; Notes; Index
The author presents a deflationary theory of the content of semantic notions. He represents a broad range of these notions as being free from substantive metaphysical and empirical presuppositions. He also seeks to explain the intuition that there is a relation of mirroring or semantic correspondence linking thoughts to reality
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 154 pages)
ISBN:0511058632
0511064969
0511073429
0521814847
0521892430
9780511058639
9780511064968
9780511073427
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