Thought and World - An Austere Portrayal of Truth, Reference, and Semantic Correspondence

Klappentext Thought and World presents a theory of the content of semantic notions. Zusammenfassung This book presents a deflationary theory of the content of semantic notions. It represents a broad range of these notions as being free from substantive metaphysical and empirical presuppositions. It also seeks to explain the intuition that there is a relation of mirroring or semantic correspondence linking thoughts to reality. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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: non-designating concepts, vagueness, semantic paradox, and logical paradox.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher S. Hill, Christopher S. (University of Arkansas) Hill, Hill Christopher S.
• Assisted by: Jonathan Dancy (Editor), Ernest Sosa (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.07.2002
• EAN: 9780521814843
• ISBN: 978-0-521-81484-3
• No. of pages: 168
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosoph; Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, Philosophy, Analytical philosophy and Logical Positivism