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The pragmatics of making it explicit /

One common criticism of deflationism is that it does not have the resources to explain defective discourse (e.g., vagueness, referential indeterminacy, confusion, etc.). This problem is especially pressing for someone like Robert Brandom, who not only endorses deflationist accounts of truth, referen...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Stekeler-Weithofer, Pirmin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam, the Netherlands ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins, ©2008.
Colección:Benjamins current topics ; v. 15.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:One common criticism of deflationism is that it does not have the resources to explain defective discourse (e.g., vagueness, referential indeterminacy, confusion, etc.). This problem is especially pressing for someone like Robert Brandom, who not only endorses deflationist accounts of truth, reference, and predication, but also refuses to use representational relations to explain content and propositional attitudes. To address this problem, I suggest that Brandom should explain defective discourse in terms of what it is to treat some portion of discourse as defective. To illustrate this strate.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (viii, 237 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9789027289971
9027289972