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THOUGHT AND WORLD
AN AUSTERE PORTRAYAL OF TRUTH, REFERENCE, AND SEMANTIC CORRESPONDENCE |
| By: |
Christopher S. Hill |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521814847 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521814843 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
11 July, 2002 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Studies in Philosophy |
| Pages: |
168 |
| Description: |
Thought and World presents a theory of the content of semantic notions. |
| Synopsis: |
There is an important family of semantic notions that we apply to thoughts and to the conceptual constituents of thoughts - as when we say that the thought that the Universe is expanding is true. Thought and World presents a theory of the content of such notions. The theory is largely deflationary in spirit, in the sense that it represents a broad range of semantic notions - including the concept of truth - as being entirely free from substantive metaphysical and empirical presuppositions. At the same time, however, it takes seriously and seeks to explain the intuition that there is a metaphysically or empirically 'deep' relation (a relation of mirroring or semantic correspondence) linking thoughts to reality. Thus, the theory represents a kind of compromise between deflationism and versions of the correspondence theory of truth. This book will appeal to students and professionals interested in the philosophy of logic and language. |
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UK |
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Cambridge University Press |
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