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Truth Without Objectivity.
Kölbel examines and rejects the mainstream view of 'meaning' and how this relates to truth, instead developing and defending an alternative, relativist, theory.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Truth Without Objectivity; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1. Truth-Conditional Semantics; 1 One version of truth-conditional semantics; 2 Compositionality; 3 Force indicators and content indicators; 4 Truth d efinitions 'serving as' meaning theories; 5 Application to natural languages; 6 Proper communicative function; 7 Communicative acts; 8 Summary and conclusion; Chapter 2. Excess Objectivity; 1 Excess objectivity; 2 Three ways of solving the problem of excess objectivity; 3 Kinds of objectivity; 4 Wright's criterion of cognitive command
- 5 The problem of a priori error6 Does plain error amount to cognitive failure?; 7 A new criterion for objectivity; 8 How to solve the problem of a priori error; Chapter 3. Revisionism; 1 How to revise a content ascription; 2 The attraction of revisionism; 3 Objection to revisionism: denial; 4 Revising revisionism; Chpater 4. Expressivism; 1 Some expressivists; 2 Unendorsed contexts; 3 Two ways of meeting Geach's challenge; 4 Hale and the grammatical uniformity of declarative sentences; 5 Resolving Hale's problem; 6 Concluding remarks; Chapter 5. Soft Truth; 1 The traditional debate
- 2 Two notions of truth3 Davidson's programme; 4 Radical interpretation without the notion of truth; 5 'Meaning as truth condition'; Chapter 6. Relative Truth and Linguistic Communication; 1 An absolutist model of linguistic communication; 2 Disagreement without error; 3 The relativized truth framework; 4 The explanatory status of the theory; 5 Methods of belief acquisition; 6 Extension of the framework: shades of objectivity; 7 One further application: fiction; 8 Alan Gibbard: revisionist, expressivist or relativist?; Chapter 7. Defence of Relativism; 1 The essence of relativism
- 2 Classifying relativisms3 Newton-Smith and the traditional conception of proposition; 4 The dilemma/self-refutation; 5 The possibility of communication; 6 Problems for Protagorean relativism; Notes; Bibliography; Index